Digital learning has revolutionized the way we look at education. It has opened new avenues of acquiring knowledge and enabled us to access information with relative ease compared to traditional methods. So, let’s talk a bit more about that.

A Brief Introduction To The Concept of Digital Learning

The term ‘digital learning’ refers to using digital technology to improve the outcomes of students and make teaching more effective. Digital technology can be in the form of mobiles, the internet, or computers.

Thus, everything from courses to educational simulations to e-books to virtual classrooms to the use of digital tools falls in the category of digital learning resources.

Let us do a brief introduction to some of them.

5 Benefits of Digital Learning in Terms of Improving Education Quality

As we’ve specified the resources of digital learning, understanding how digital learning improves education quality will now become easier for you. So, let’s get to the five different ways of using digital technologies to support learning and teaching.

1. Customizes Learning Experience for the Best Possible Outcome

A study shows that learning is possible for every student but at a different pace (Jones, 2015). This study highlights one of the major flaws of the conventional learning method.

That’s because when instructors teach in a physical classroom, they want every student to learn at the same pace. Since human minds work differently, everybody learns at their own pace. And that’s where digital learning can help.

The digital way of learning can personalize students’ learning experiences according to their progress, interest, and understanding pace. This way, students can learn much better than with conventional learning methods.

For instance, when we take a course on YouTube, our YouTube home page gets customized with the material relevant to our course.

Thus, with the help of the aforementioned tweaks, students can personalize their learning experience in the digital era and learn better.

2. Provides the Facility of Real-Time Feedback

With traditional learning methods, students can only improve their academic performance through the teacher’s feedback. However, this process can sometimes be time-consuming.

That’s because students have to wait for their teachers’ feedback to learn and work on their weaknesses. But thanks to digital learning, students can now get real-time feedback.

As we’ve discussed in the definition of digital learning, it involves using tools to improve education quality.

So, with the help of those tools, students can get instant feedback on their work.

This way, students can improve their weaknesses before submitting their work to their teachers. However, let’s see an example of how digital tools can provide real-time feedback on students’ work.

Disclaimer: For this example, we’ll use a plagiarism checker because writing plagiarism-free work is one of the essential aspects of quality education.

Here, we’ve taken the following instance of plagiarized text:

Now, we’ll run a scan for plagiarism on the above sample. And for the plagiarism scan, we’ll use Check-Plagiarism. That’s because this tool is famous for its state-of-the-art plagiarism detection algorithms. So, here are the results we’ve got in our case:

As the above pictures indicate, our selected tool has identified that the sample is 100% plagiarized. This way, students can use top-notch tools to get instant and real-time feedback on the originality of their work.

3. Increases the Engagement of the Learning Experience

The traditional way of learning focuses on using books, which can be boring for modern-day students. But that won’t be the case with digital learning. Digital learning provides students with exciting ways to learn through multimedia content.

For instance, students can understand complex concepts through animations, simulations, or videos in a better way than reading the same idea in books. For example, here is a comparison of the quantum computers‘ explanation from a book and a GIF:

As the above media indicates, the GIF explains the concept of quantum computers better than a single line of text. So, that’s how digital learning will make the earning experience more effective and engaging for students.

4. Teaches the Correct Usage of Grammatical Forms in a Better Way

Just like plagiarism-free writing, grammatically correct content is another vital aspect of quality education. But students can’t learn the art of writing grammatically correct content by reading the rules and examples. Instead, they have to implement them practically. And that’s where the modern-technology-based digital tools will come in handy.

Digital learning involves NLP-based tools that use training from expert human writers’ writing styles to identify and suggest recommendations on grammatical errors.

So, with the help of those tools, students can instantly identify grammatical mistakes and learn their correct usage during practical implementation. However, let’s elaborate on this more through an example.

For this example, we’ll use the following sample of grammatically incorrect content:

Sample Text: Me and my friend goed to store yesterdy, we buyed candy and soda.

Now, we’ll run the ‘Sample Text’ in an NLP-based tool. But here, we’ll take the assistance of Paraphraser.io and see how it rewords the content.

As you can see, the paraphrasing tool automatically fixed the grammatical errors in the output. By looking at the corrected outputs, learners can understand the right usage of the different words and grammatical elements.

5. Provides Access to Multiple and Up-to-Date Resources

The conventional way of learning limits the students to books, which can sometimes result in out-of-date information. This issue can negatively impact the quality of the education system. But students will not face this problem in digital learning.

Since everything is online in digital learning, students can refer to more resources instead of sticking to books. Some of the popular resources are:

• Academic journals.
• High-authoritative articles and blogs.
• Brief speeches.
• News.

Moreover, online data also minimizes the risk of using outdated information. So, students can find more up-to-date data through digital learning. And that’s how digital learning will eventually lead to better education quality.

Conclusion

Overall, digital learning optimizes the education quality of a system in various ways. For instance, it allows students to learn at their own pace, gaining a deeper understanding of the subject-matter. Moreover, it can help bridge the gap between teachers and students, creating an atmosphere of collaboration and cooperation.

But as George Couros said in The Innovator’s Mindset:

“Technology will never replace great teachers, but technology in the hands of great teachers is transformational.”

Digital learning will never replace conventional methods of learning. It can only increase the quality of an education system if individuals use it along with traditional approaches. Therefore, even with technology’s assistance in education, students must also utilize the conventional way of learning.