Why blend?

Blended learning is about efficiently and effectively using available technological innovations and methods into course creations and delivery to enhance
the teaching and learning experiences for students, parents and teachers by encouraging them to interact and engage in ways that would not normally be available or effective in their conventional environment. 

In several instances the attempts of “blending” achieves better student experiences and results, and better teaching and course curation. 

It can involve a balanced used of different delivery modes, teaching techniques and learning methods.
Technology innovations provide new avenues for teachers to deliver and/or design their courses.
This supports and enhances the teachers’ role, the students’ individual learning experiences, as well as the social ecosystem; three key elements in successful learning and teaching. 

Blended learning technologies can:
1) Broaden the domain and opportunities available for learning;
2) Enhance course management activities (e.g., communication, assessment submission, marking and feedback);
3) Effectively provisions information and resources to students;
4) Engage and motivate students through interactivity and collaboration.

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Therefore it is not just about using technology because it is available but blended learning is about exploring better ways of supporting students in reaching the learning objectives and giving them the best learning and demonstrating experiences, and furthermore supporting instructors in their part (numbering the organization and association of courses). 

Clearly, the mix of blended learning in courses will really change according to such components as: educate, year level, understudy traits and requirements, 
course or program learning objectives, and the educational's approach to manage teaching, and assurance and association in using development.

To Parents

In this time of Digital India, where access to smart phone and internet has been drilled down to grass root level. A survey revealed that smart phones and interent is enaging almost 40% of free time of youngsters in India which is almost 3 hours a day. So it becomes imperative that students should be offered with such educational aids which will be accessible to them on their favorite device. This is what exactly ePrabodh does, it enables their educators with technology and resources to be able to make their teachings and learning available on all the internet enabled devices students so widely use and are habitual to.

This availablity of their day-today learnings on their smart phones will help students form habit of healthy usage of the internet. 

Major Benefits of using a Learning assistance system like ePrabodh are as follows:

Online Tests

Teachers who are making great use of ePrabodh, they say Online Tests are one of the most popular ways to assess knowledge. They are very simple to create. They  can choose from various types of question to ask, such as multiple choice, free-text, choose from a list and more. It’s a really easy way to test your students’ knowledge on a topic. 

Engage parents with ePrabodh's Learning Assistance 

Parental engagement is a hot topic at the moment, with parents wanting to know what their children are up to at school/coaching classes/institutes and how they’re progressing. With MIS integration into your ePrabodh's Learning Assistance, you can push all relevant information out to parents, teachers or students from within the ePrabodh's Learning Assistance.

Receive written assessments

It’s not just quantitative data you can assess on – our software is capable of receiving written assessments as well. Rather than worrying about broken printers or lost papers, you can have your students hand in their work digitally. You can then track this and mark it, with the results being written back into your MIS, if you have integration with that. A little bit of time spent setting up the assignments can save you a huge deal of paperwork down the line, a common theme with ePrabodh's Learning Assistance s in general!

The Homeworx Block

An extension of the assessments module, the Homeworx Block has been custom-designed to manage students’ homework assignments. It can really help with engaging parents too, as it lets them log in and see grades. Teachers can set homework ahead of time – get an entire term’s worth of work out of the way early, then mark them online.

Flip your classroom

The trick to any provide holistic solution for Digital Learning is both creating a reason for people to go there, then making it the most comfortable option. A great way to do this is to flip the classroom, a technique that’s becoming increasingly popular. Essentially rather than having students study in lessons they do the theory work at home, so when they come in the lessons become discussion and debate. It’s a highly effective method, and more closely resembles the university model that many students will have to adapt to. ePrabodh Learning Assistance is designed to make Flip Classroom more effective and befenicial for students.

Document storage

This is something ePrabodh is actually very good at. You can provide documents, links and all sorts of rich media, all restricted based on access permissions. It can be very handy for uploading notes and powerpoints, especially in the event that a student is unable to make a lesson due to adverse weather or other scenarios.

Live Classroom

Arguably the best feature of ePrabodh is its ability to offere seamless Live Classroom broadcast to the students and also to offer recording. For some reason, if student is not able to attend the class phyically he can login to live classroom and attend the class remotely or if even that is not possible student can review recorded classroom as and when he can. So with ePrabodh, missed lectures is thing of past.

Blended Learning: A perfect balance of Learning Online & Offline

While it is proven fact that there is no alternative to a good teacher in learning environment, lot of people are still try to approach the problems in education sector with to digitize entire learning process.


There are apprehensions among instructors to adapt digitization mainly because of these reasons:
1. Brings about an absence of enthusiasm for learning:
Since everything is presently open on the web, students poor studying habits and a lazy attitude towards education. Some of them may even think they can play smart since they can discover answers and lessons on the web. Who needs educators when you have web and Google, isn't that so?
This can similarly prompt to students overlooking the fundamentals of education. They would rather depend on PCs and the web, rather than their books and the contribution from their educators. The greater part of them will incorrectly spell words since they frequently utilize spell checkers. As opposed to understand numerical conditions the customary way, they would look for help from PCs or search for the appropriate responses specifically through web indexes. When the time has come to take the tests in the classroom and with no type of innovation, students are probably going to come up short.
2. Makes students defenseless against potential pitfalls
While PCs turn out to be a priceless instructive apparatus, it can likewise be a wellspring of issues. This is particularly valid for students who do not have the right stuff expected to expand a gadget's functionalities. Specialized issues and PC glitches can bring about loss of assignments and different materials, bringing about large amounts of stress that students would rather not understanding. Distinction in web speeds and a gadget's capacities can likewise prompt to specific troubles that will de-spur understudies. Add to this different things that they will find on the web, which are totally random to class and instruction, and they will be occupied forever.
3. Negative perspectives on innovation
Consumerism has shown us that innovations, from PCs to cell phones, are broadly seen as apparatuses to engage instead of teach. Course readings, then again, are viewed as instruments for learning. In this way, between a tablet and a course book, students are probably going to float towards realizing when perusing a book, while they are probably going to utilize a tablet to play diversions or invest energy in online networking.
4. Raise instructional difficulties
For educators and instructors to remain side by side with innovation, they may should be retrained. The individuals who have been showing every one of their lives utilizing conventional strategies may not be extremely vulnerable to the progressions being connected. They may even consider it to be a danger to their employer stability and avoid innovation inside and out. Truth be told, a lion's share of instructors trust that consistent utilization of computerized innovation is influencing an understudy's capacity to focus and his capacity to drive forward when a testing undertaking is tossed his direction. Albeit such conviction is subjective, researchers, specialists and instructors all concur that innovation has changed the way students learn.
5. Can lessen value of in-person instruction
In spite of the fact that exploration on web based learning did not build up an immediate connection to how individual association influences an understudy's execution, information assembled showed that the individuals who selected in online courses have higher odds of fizzling, dropping out of classes, and are more averse to profit by them. This may have something to do with the way that lessons conveyed on the web or through advanced assets do not have the eye to eye connection amongst educator and understudy that gives a more individual affair.

Solution to all such issues is Blended Learning
Blended Learning is a term used to depict the way eLearning is being consolidated with customary classroom strategies and free review.
A Blended learning approach guarantees that the learner is locked in and driving his/her individual learning background. Also, since distinction students have one of a kind learning styles, a Blended approach will probably take into account those necessities. We've rattled off a couple of advantages and disadvantages for you.
Benefits
Community oriented learning encounters. Joint effort between the students and teacher can increment generously by means of a web based preparing stage. With numerous cooperative devices (online examinations, web journals, texts, and so on.) the students can associate with each other in or out of the classroom.
Expanded availability. Enhances access and also understudy states of mind towards learning. The students are given the instruments to get to the course materials at whatever time, anyplace.
Better correspondence. Correspondence is enhanced amongst speakers and low maintenance/full-time understudies. A web based preparing stage can give numerous specialized instruments, for example, news declarations, email, texting, online dialogs, internet reviewing apparatus, dropboxes, and that's just the beginning.
Fruitful assessments. Better understudy assessments through the utilization of web based testing and evaluations with announcing highlights. Regularly, the students can assess themselves better too with quick reviewing or criticism.

Cyberspace Literacy: Youth’s Negotiation of New Online Possibilities

Cyber Generation:

Generation before Internet had their own different medias—books, comics, film, radio, and TV—regardless of the possibility that parents weren't acquainted with the specific content their kids were engaged with, in any event they could get to and comprehend the medium so that, in the event that they wanted to understand what their kids were doing or impart the movement to them, they could.

With the appearance of computerized media, things have changed. The requests of the PC interface are huge, rendering many parents "dinosaurs" in the data age possessed by their youngsters. Be that as it may, more essentially, regard for these requests blinds us to the genuine test of utilizing advanced media, to be specific the potential for engagement with data and online content, and for interest in online exercises, systems, and groups. Without a doubt, the very trouble of getting to and utilizing the web boggles numerous grown-ups into trusting that if just they could ace "clicking" on connections with the mouse, then they—like their youngsters—would be web "specialists." This is not a conviction that we hold for the pen, else we'd quit instructing students English once they had figured out how to peruse and compose, yet the kid who "pros" around the screen appears to be skilled to the point that, we close serenely, they know everything they need to know as of now.

Such a conclusion appears to be affirmed by the exceptional news features of youthful programmers, young hackers and crackers breaking national security codes or adolescent business people making a fortune on E-Bay, Flipkart or Facebook not to mention the energetic inceptions of such late triumphs as Google and YouTube. Youngsters  themselves, aware of being the original to grow up with the web, agree with  people in general festival of their status as "computerized locals."

Internet Literacy

First, literacy is a type of information with clear coherence crosswise over open structures (print, audio, video, interpersonal, advanced). As respects the Internet, this learning represents a staged arrangement of difficulties, from starting equipment challenges of access through to more perplexing interpretative and evaluative capabilities with respect to content furthermore, benefits that are particularly managed by (or socially engraved into) the innovation on the other hand content.

Second, proficiency is an arranged type of realizing that provides platform to singular expertise and social hones that is empowered (or blocked) by (unequally dispersed) monetary, social, and

social assets (or capital). Critically, this rises up out of the cooperation between person action, innovation or interface outline, and institutional forming, and can't be caught on

exclusively as "a nonpartisan specialized skill."

Thirdly, proficiency includes an arrangement of socially controlled capabilities including both that which is normatively esteemed and that which is disliked or misbehavior. "Internet Literacy" specifically might be recognized from different types of proficiency to the degree that the particular abilities, encounters, writings, organizations, also, social qualities connected with the web contrast from those connected with print, varying media, or different types of correspondence.

However, now that the internet converges multiple technologies, forms, and spaces of mediation and information—blurring hitherto distinctive social practices of information and entertainment, work and leisure, public and private, even childhood and adulthood, national and global—a convergence of media (or audiovisual) and information literacy is needed to map out a constructive route to understanding what (young) people know, and need to know, regarding that deceptively simple notion of “using the internet.”

Possibilities in New Age Learning:

No wonder that what excites young people about the internet is primarily the peer-to-peer opportunities it affords, in which they provide for each other the responsiveness, criticism, humor, feedback, openness, and networking that so often is absent from content designed for children by adults. Yet since information and communication technologies increasingly represent a key route to education, health, civic engagement, employment skills, participation in government, therapeutic advice, extended family relations, and so forth, it is here that we must ensure literacy is sufficient. Celebrating young people’s enterprise and enthusiasm, while failing to support, respond, or engage with their online activities, risks failing to bring to fruition the ambitious hopes we hold not only for the internet but, more significantly, for young people.

DDT:SKOI Details

Course Name:
"Desi Digital Tips: Survival Kit for Online India, Tips and Tricks for Online and Social Media Daily Activities"

Date of Commencing:
01 March 2016

Cost:
Free

Course Format: 
Social

What all is required from a good Learning Assistance System?

An optimum learning can be reached if the Right Blend of a Teacher led Teaching is infused in correct balance with new technological innovations like communication devices, higher Internet access and new software innovations.

Internet is reach in India is increasin at a rapid speed. Also, the accessibility of mobile devices powered with Internet.

Advance software innovations available today can be leveraged to achieve a complete Learning Assistance System which primarily should be able to offer tools for:

• Productivity Tools
• Administration Tools
• Communications Tools
• Student Involvement Tools
• Course Content Delivery Tools
• Curriculum Design Tools

In the coming posts we will try to explore what are these tools and how we can use these tools to impart optimum learning experience. 

 

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Usage of smartphone among youth in India

A comparison between smartphone usage among youth in Tier-1 and Tier-2 Cities in India

Post under the series "Youth and eLearning in Digital India"

The Classification of Indian cities comprises a ranking system used by the Government of India. The earlier classification of cities was changed from A-1 to X, A, B-1 and B-2 to Y and C and unclassified cities to Z. X, Y and Z are more commonly known as Tier-1, Tier-2 and Tier-3 cities respectively.

Tier-1 Cities or Metros as we call them are Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Chennai, Delhi, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Mumbai and Pune.

Tier-2 or Mini metro class cities are Agra, Ajmer, Aligarh, Allahabad, Amravati, Amritsar, Asansol, Aurangabad, Bareilly, Belgaum, Bhavnagar, Bhiwandi, Bhopal, Bhubaneswar, Bikaner, Bokaro Steel City, Chandigarh, Coimbatore, Cuttack, Dehradun, Dhanbad, Durg-Bhilai Nagar, Durgapur, Erode, Faridabad, Firozabad, Ghaziabad, Gorakhpur, Gulbarga, Guntur, Gurgaon, Guwahati, Gwalior, Hubli-Dharwad, Indore, Jabalpur, Jaipur, Jalandhar, Jammu, Jamnagar, Jamshedpur, Jhansi, Jodhpur, Kannur, Kanpur, Kakinada, Kochi, Kolhapur, Kollam, Kota, Kozhikode, Lucknow, Ludhiana, Madurai, Malappuram, Malegaon, Mangalore, Meerut, Moradabad, Mysore, Nagpur, Nanded-Waghala, Nashik, Nellore, Noida, Patna, Pondicherry, Raipur, Rajkot, Rajahmundry, Ranchi, Rourkela, Salem, Sangli, Siliguri, Solapur, Srinagar, Surat, Thiruvananthapuram, Tiruchirappalli, Tiruppur, Tirupati, Ujjain, Vadodara, Varanasi, Vasai-Virar City, Vijayawada, Visakhapatnam and Warangal.

According to a survey done by TCS in the cities mentioned above, in year 2014-15, a whopping 72 percent of high school and above students own smartphones (compared to just 40 percent in 2011-12).

Out of these youth in metros has been using smartphones from quite a sometime and had formed a habit of using mobile based apps apart from the regular social networking and communication apps. Hence time they spend on the mobile is already occupied.

The youth in mini metros, on other hand, has newly acquired the smart phones and is rapidly forming habit of these apps, it’s easier to introduce more productive apps and mobile based e-learning to this demography as the time they spend on the mobile is largely unoccupied currently.

An interactive, engaging e-learning activity is more adaptable to this group of youths. The most vital requirement for such app which can deliver e-learning is it should capture students attention in fun way along with imparting knowledge and value add to their mobile usage.

Impact of Mobile on youth today

This writeup is first of the series: "Youth and eLearning in Digital India"

Communication is essential need of individuals

thus portable communication innovation is necessary piece of youngsters. Moment, pace and numerous time and space progress are components of portable communication . Youngsters like to talk more by means of new communication advancements stages. Youngsters and their regular life are exceedingly connected with portable communication innovation. Mobile telephone is utilized for some various purposes instead of just calling or messaging. Mobile telephone and its network are so essential in nowadays and in the life of youthful individuals. Mobile telephones and its ringtones, wallpapers mirror the client identity and state of mind.

Portable influences brains of individuals, and it results into half focus, feeling uneasiness, checking phones over and over for system. The lives' of youngsters is appended with new communication advances. Over use may bring about mental issues and issue. It makes numerous spaces and time connection.

Mobile is more than just a communication technology now a days for youngsters, they also inuse it for many online  exercises. Internet on Mobile telephone has changed the very way of portable communication . The utilization of informal communication locales and application like we talk and whats-application makes the versatile client snared to the gadget for long time. Versatile makes circumstance and feeling like together yet alone.

In spite of the fact that youngsters know about the negative parts of Mobile telephones yet at the same time use it much of the time. Youngsters and every single mobile user never make their Mobile telephones switch off indeed, even in those ranges where Mobile telephones are limited. Spots like sanctuaries, mosques, and church are not free from the aggravation of Mobile telephone. Versatile communication is only a method for communication yet portable has multiplied the utilization like other media as well. Like web, music, radio, recordings, melodies, movies and considerably more.

Knowledge vs Information

Many a times individuals see things in light of either what they have seen, experienced, listened, read, learned or construed after some experimentation.

These recognitions are then classified in the brain as data, information, knowledge, understanding or wisdom.Knowledge is the brief and accurate accumulation of information in a manner that makes it valuable and useful while information refers to data that has been given some which means by method for social association. In registering terms it is information that has been prepared. The "signifying" connected to the information may not as a matter of course be helpful.Digital Learning's impact on innovation as a device to upgrade learning in an assortment of ways. At the point when innovation is coordinated with reason, understudies can make relics to show theoretical authority, apply a variety of gained abilities, represent the development of knowledge, and be enabled to take responsibility for learning.

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Digital India inspires new thinking

India is rapidly moving forward towards being digital.

Digital India aspires to connect India’s cities, towns and 250,000 villages by end-2016, along with a system of networks and data centers say the National Information Infrastructure.

ePrabodh is inspired by the vision of Digital India, the vision to empower people with technology in day to day life, especially in Education sector.

We, at ePrabodh believe:

• Knowledge is strength – and empowers the People.
• Quality Education must reach the most inaccessible corners driven by Digital Learning.
• Technology as learning tool maximizes the growth potential of students.
• Creativity & Innovation helps achieve outstanding learning and progress.

With these four pillars as our vision’s foundation, we have created ePrabodh, Learning Assistance System. The System reflects our ideology in every feature we have created. It strives to provide Educator with right blend of his own Distinctive teaching method and all the benefits of advance technology.