Designing assessment categories for the new generation of students – involve them and evolve!
As any teacher knows and a student dreads… there are always exams and report cards around the corner. The students of this generation – the millennials, approach assessments and their grades with a different perspective. Some prefer to quickly finish an assessment online while some may still want to follow the traditional in-class examinations. Either […]
EdTech Trends: 2017 Overview
This next year will see many technologies broadly deployed, but with that deployment will come challenges and choices to make. This sets up 2017 to be a year of intense activity and important choices — how far forward to leap and how to transition from a world we all know and are working in comfortably. […]
Learning VS Teaching: What’s the Difference?
Learning vs teaching is a common comparison in education because both play a crucial role in how knowledge is shared, acquired, and applied. While teaching focuses on guiding and imparting knowledge, learning is the process of understanding, retaining, and using that knowledge in real-world situations. In research conducted by the Proceedings of the National Academy […]
Captivate International Students with 5 Key Strategies
The strength of an institute lies in the aspiration of the local to study in it as well as in the interest attracted by it from international students. While international students stand to gain exposure to novel teaching methods and new geographies, local students also benefit from them with fresh perspectives and newer cognitive skills. […]
Augmented Reality in Education
Ever wondered how the scenes of a sci-fi movie are created? Any first time movie goer would be fascinated by the realistic Holograms, Aliens, Blackholes, Ghosts etc. How are these captured on screen? With Augmented Reality, Objects that may or may not exist in the physical world can be shown in vivd detail. To “Augment” […]
LMS and SIS Comparison – are these the new dynamic duo of the education world?
“Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.” ― Benjamin Franklin Information is man’s primal asset in this age. Impatience is the buzzword of our generation which is stoked by the lack of timely, actionable and veritable data. As we evolve to seek answers, our methods of ingesting […]
BYOD vs Informal Learning: Classroom Impact
What is the first thing that pops into mind when you think about “education”? Probably a “chalkboard”, “classroom” or “student-teacher interaction” etc. In this traditional method of teaching, students are fed the same amount of information at the same rate. The level of understanding is different for each student. Teachers, regardless of whether students have […]
Mobile Learning vs E-Learning: Clarified
Everybody who is anybody has a phone these days. Acknowledging the fact that the face to face teaching model has more liabilities than assets, its no surprise that someone would think of using mobile technology in education. You may be thinking that M-learning (Mobile Learning) is E-Learning (Electronic Learning) on a mobile device, but that […]
Should Parents Advocate for Technology in Schools?
Parents play a major role in their child’s education. But their guidance alone isn’t enough to unleash the latent ability that today’s students can produce. Furthermore, managing their children’s education alongside their own jobs, is quite difficult. Introducing technology in Schools can help manage their child’s needs outside the classroom as well as provide an […]
Does your School live up to the age of the millennial generation?
We have to keep up When we talk about the “millennial generation”, we mean the students of today – those growing up in the era of rising software and technology. Since computers are a part of their daily lives, it only evident that education incorporates the use of computers and cutting edge teaching methodologies. Students […]