Impact of ICT on International Education for the 21st Century

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“What is the impact of ICT on international education for the 21st Century?”
Effects of Globalization and e learning on ICT
With the emerging technology and development in the recent time, the internet has
evolved a lot. It has also effected the globalization a lot. With the evolution of e-
learning tools and implementation of international educational learning has become
effective. With the implementation of new technologies, online study material and
interactive classes teaching, and learning has earned a huge interest. The main of
my study is to focus about today’s growing trend of globalization on e-learning
which includes the effect of using information technology; in addition to teachers
and students’ development. It also defines the use of technology as hardware and
software which includes iPads, laptops, desktop computers, interactive classrooms,
software and peripherals. This becomes equally important to understand the need
of ICT for globalization and e learning. The implementation of new information
and communication technology has improved the engagement between teachers
and student has increased. ICT helps in enhancing the education process by
providing support with information and communication technology. It is the
global knowledge and participation using the internet and e-learning strategies. At
this point it becomes important to discuss about the provision of distance learning
and on-campus learning. ICT enhances the quality of education provided to the
student ways with the help of increasing number of online courses, interactive
sessions, engaging the teachers and students online for better and instant support.
With the implementation of this technology proper distant learning can be
guaranteed. The international and national educators will continue to develop the
ICT which been shaped by the economic globalization (Ryan, 1998). Providing the
teachers and staff professional development and support to expand the philosophy
of teaching in using ICT is the key is to share the vision among all stakeholders

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(Kidd, 2012). The report will analyses in detail the positive and negative impact of
ICT on international education.
Positive impacts of ICT on international education
There are several impacts of implementing ICT on international education.
However the positive impacts are more and the main role of ICT is to expand the
access over education and knowledge internationally, which has translated the
ideas of using the digital resources to achieve better learning and system
improvement in educational communications across the worldwide or between
different geographical areas (Youssef & Dahmani, 2008). Long-distance/e-learning
has expanded the international education access to allow larger number of
student’s participation compared to the on-campus learning. Nowadays, students
can learn remotely using the new technology of digital resources such as online
classroom. Considering the size of classrooms and buildings, using the ICT in
teaching will be less cost effective, reliable and affordable to many of international
students. Moreover, the lower cost of education has expanded and widened the
access to worldwide opportunities for students to have different teaching and
learning format rather than the traditional learning format. Students with different
learning methods or using the technology researches have proven to show larger
engagement and broaden their critical thinking and achievement this turns to be
beneficial for international education. International education is referred to the
concept of involving a movement that includes people, ideas and minds
(Arundhathi & Chandrashekara, 2015). The concept behind this learning includes

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formal education, learning, and informal learning. With the help of ICT,
international education will get enhanced.
Negative impacts of ICT on Distance learning
At this stage it is important to distinguish between the distance learning and attend
face-to-face “on-campus access” (Cunningham et al., 1998) However, using ICT is
still facing some challenges in traditional schools. Based on my experience, there
are some challenging factors that we need to consider in using digital resources.
Teachers, students and admin may lack the necessary experience in using
technology, which may unfavorably affect the lesson content or delivery and
aggravate the students’ outcomes. Teachers and students should be supported all
the time to apply the best practice of using the digital resources. On the other hand,
teachers and students need to be provided with computers and all necessary
resources. Applying all of this will lead to a cost which schools may not be able to
support (Al-Shboul, 2013). One other effect is the physical harm, sitting for a long
time in front of the computer will cause a health problem like, eye strain and
backpain; this will defiantly affect the student’s education. Additionally, students
are likely to be playful. Using the computer or digital learning, will give them
access to YouTube and games, this will also lead to wasting of time.

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Issues related to the use of ICT
 Educational innovation: introducing the ICT in international education will need to
develop teachers and build new IT infrastructure. Administration and teachers should
play a role to meet the students pedagogical which will need to be students learning
focus.
 Curriculum: the international schools need to find suitable ways to modify the
curriculum content in order to be delivered using special platforms/software.
 Software copyrights: it is observed that in international education system some students
and schools might be using the unlicensed/pirated software, this will lead to
inappropriate connectivity. Schools should always go through a digital strategy to avoid
any illegal and ethical software issues.
 Internet and networks: students may use the internet in
inappropriately. Schools need to find solution to supervise the students
and make sure the internet is only used for educational purposes.
 Cyber bullying and social media: students may take an advantage of
using the internet as a way to bully each other. Thus it is important to
take care from the perspective of international education.
Ways to develop the concept of ICT in education system
This is the responsibility of the education policymaker to be clear about the
benefits of education outcome. The objective is to develop an education system
that will engage more learners and will lead them with better future. Learners are
the future of every country. Thus, it is essential to develop a system that will
engage maximum learner (Borko, 2004). The benefits of ICT into education is that
it reduces efforts needed and increases the efficiency. Integrating the ICT into
education has provoke a variety of teachers’ challenging’s. One of the challenges is