What is digital learning? | Mobile Learning Blog

What is digital learning? explains Mobile Learning Blog.

What is digital learning? It’s the opposite of this. But losing the coffee is optional.
Photo: Mobile Learning Blog 

Digital learning is a broad term that’s become popular in recent decades. It’s frequently used as a synonym for electronic learning (which is also known as eLearning) which is commonly used to mean the opposite of teacher-pupil-style traditional learning methods. 

What is Digital Learning – the meaning in a nutshell 
Digital Learning means learning using electronic media. Modern day computers and electronics all use binary digits (1s and 0s) to construct all of their data. Information and instructions created with these digits are therefore called digital information. Learning that uses this digital information is called digital learning. Consequently, digital learning means learning using electronic devices.

Why is digital learning useful? 
Traditional teaching methods involve a teacher imparting information to students and everyone has direct contact with each other. This is useful for traditional schools where pupils are in the same place at the same time and are seeking to be taught the same thing. As such it can be very efficient for a teacher to transfer knowledge to an entire class at once...

How to make Digital Learning more effective 
Instructional Designers use tools called Learning Management Systems (LMS). These are systems which allow teachers and instructors to add questions and answers to a pre-built framework which can then automatically be used to interact with multiple students – it will deliver the information to the students and automatically quiz them on it.
Read more... 

Source: Mobile Learning Blog