siliconindia | | December 20198In the last few years, the Indian education sector has witnessed the launch of several digital learning websites and mobile apps, offering a diverse range of educational resources. They enable students to go beyond physical textbooks & other study materials, to learn academic concepts at their own learning pace, and in a more interesting manner through audio-visual tools. From the perspective of schools or teachers, digital learn-ing gives them an opportunity to improve their teaching curriculum, methodologies and outcomes.While digital learning indeed is a powerful medium to provide high-quality education, engage students effec-tively and adapt to the new-age, there is still a significant divide between traditional and digital learning among a majority of schools. The reasons for this gap are several:· Lack of awareness about digital technology in education.· Insufficient funds to source and implement digital learning tools.· Lack of space and infrastructure for digital · learning set up. · Unavailability of trained teachers in digital · learning.· Resistance to digital learning - `traditional learn-ing is the best' ideology.It is imperative to understand that India is one of the largest education systems in the world with diverse de-mographic population and socio-economic-political fea-tures. This in itself poses difficult challenges to incorpo-rate common standards and goals in traditional education. Hence, there is also general apprehension in traditional schools that digital learning may become more burden-some in terms of resources and standardization.IN MY OPINIONARE SCHOOLS DOING THEIR BIT IN BLURRING THE GAP BETWEEN DIGITAL LEARNING & TRADITIONAL LEARNINGBy Dr. Suresh Nagpal, Chairman, Asia Pacific World School, BangaloreA visionary and a successful educationist, Dr. Nagpal with three decades of efforts, has brought about a change of a lifetime in the education system and is currently responsible for revolutionizing the way education is imparted through the many colleges affiliated to the Krupanidhi Trust.Dr. Suresh Nagpal
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