Digital trends and technology advancements have been impacting a number of different sectors – one being education.
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Education is so important in many different ways. It allows us to be better prepared to face challenges or obstacles that may come our way and provides us with the knowledge for us to lead a happy life. With digital technologies becoming more and more popular, we have become more familiar with “e-learning” styles.
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Electronic learning or e-learning incorporates electronic technologies into our educational curriculum without the need for a traditional classroom. Many e-learning courses or programs nowadays can be delivered completely online, without the need for a traditional classroom.
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E-learning has paved the way for alternative learning courses such as distance learning and open learning, which provide students with a number of different benefits.
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In this article, we’re going to talk about how e-learning has benefited education.
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Accessibility
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One of the most significant ways e-learning has impacted education is that it has increased the accessibility of learning. With e-learning, more individuals from a wide range of social classes can now be able to get good degrees and certifications in an array of subject areas.
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This potentially means that universities may become less popular and start to become more obsolete as digital technologies continue to advance our society. Statistics produced by LearningHouse found that in 2020, online-learners are projected to make up around a quarter of all students.
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Flexible Learning
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In this day and age, the typical individual likes to be able to choose when they want to learn, making it harder for traditional based learning courses to cater for their needs. E-learning provides people with complete control and accountability for their learning. This not only helps to tailor their busy lifestyle around learning but will give them a chance to choose what time suits them best, thus reducing the need for them to miss out on a potential part-time job or family event, for example.
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As individuals are able to choose their learning schedule, this will help alleviate the stress associated with learning, for example regular tests or coursework deadlines. Furthermore, e-learning can help students to retain more information, since students will have fewer distractions and students can use microlearning techniques to split up their classes so that they learn a little each day (instead of having 3-hour lectures at university, for example). Therefore e-learning may, as a result, be more time effective and efficient than traditional learning styles.
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Time & Money Saving
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A key advantage of an e-learning program is that due to it’s convenient, flexible and personalised nature (as discussed in the earlier points), it can save time and money for the user. E-learning can reduce the amount of time spent away from the workspace or other activities, thus removing the need for travel for classroom-based learning.
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A Brandon Hall report on e-learning within the business environment discovered that this style of learning usually requires around 40-60% less employee time in comparison with traditional classroom-based learning. Hence, e-learning allows students to gain back more of their time so that they no longer need to choose between learning and other activities. This will also help encourage more students to continue with their educational studies.
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Environmental benefits
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As e-learning provides an alternative to textbook-based materials, this creates a number of environmental benefits. According to The Open University (UK), online programs equate to an average of 90% less energy and 85% fewer CO2 emissions per student compared to traditional in-person learning courses. Therefore, by incorporating e-learning into our current educational system, it will help individuals to continue to engage in learning courses but still be able to do their bit to save the environment.
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Summary
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There a host of benefits that comes with e-learning and just as the pen and paper is being replaced with the computer and Microsoft Word, traditional learning is being replaced with the digital format.
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With the education system introducing computers and tablets to help educate students, e-learning is a move that is required in today’s learning environment. Big issues such as global warming are even impacted by the implementation of e-learning and the logical steps for learning in the education system is to move towards this new form of learning.
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