Tuesday, 22 December 2015

The Role of Mobile App in Education Revolution

We all are aware of e-education and its new face m-education. It’s is now trending because of the merge of education and entertainment. A new term has been coined – edutainment. A number of companies providing digital education materials have now started to blend education with entertainment so that process of learning does not become boring.


Take the example of a girl who lives far away in the Village of Rajasthan. She attends school run by government in her district. She studies in grade 7. She also has an elder brother who is now in the final year of schooling and making important decision for his upcoming career.

In cases of above mentioned children – mobile technology can play important role. First, they can access the whole world of information with mobile devices and apps. Technology revolution has made mobile devices easier to access. Mobile devices are now much cheaper in comparison of previous years.

With their smartphones – which can now almost replicate features / functions of PCs – digital platforms and various education apps can easily be accessed. Revolutions in mobile devices and mobile app development can completely changed the lives of these two children.

Companies contributing in digitizing education are adopting mobile app development at large level. They are implementing a lot of their apps to mobile platforms; most of which are freely available or for $ 1 or 2.

The girl who is schooling in 7-standard can certainly have benefits of completing her education with tools made available by mobile based digital revolution. Think if she misses school because she lives in a village, and her school is several miles away from her home. In this condition, she can access school-curriculum that she may miss because of not being able to go school because of distance.

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On the other hand, her brother who is in the last year of schooling and who has to prepare for different competitive exams, can access a variety of content available on the web. He can also access the content made available by institutions and universities for competitive exams.

In these two examples, m-education can play remarkable roles.  M-education is a new trend and there may of course be many doubts among schools or college managements and students who want to adopt it.

Now we count some top of the benefits of education apps. Apps for such purpose can be designed with host of features. These apps may present content in adaptive manner with recommending things topic-wise. Others, like pace modulation, subject subscription, virtual mentorship, and actionable feedback are examples of some useful features.

Source: Apsense

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