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Why digitalization is necessary in education?

Now a days everything has gone online, Be it shopping, banking, business, food – everything. This phenomenon has made our life easier and at the same time more interesting too.  Then how can Education stay behind. The use of internet for the sake of education is the most beneficial move in today’s world. Let say if students are preparing for exams what will they need the most? All study material; guidance from teachers and most importantly practice for solving questions because unless and until you practice your knowledge, you can’t generate the desired results in exams. This is where online test taking becomes a useful habit.             Students often get confused about the exam patterns and the type of questions being asked in exams. We have many booklets on model question paper sets available in market but they are printed once in a year and do not have any updates that happened throughout the year. But this confusion c...

Assessment - A Digital Way Forward

               One fine morning I was enjoying my cup of tea reading newspaper where interesting news grabbed my attention. It read ‘Bangalore University is adapting to digitized evaluation of their students’. I thought it is indeed a smart move to keep up with today’s fast changing world. But if we give a keen thought to analyze the reasons behind such changes in education, it reveals the necessity for the up gradation of today’s education system for the better future.               Digitization has started way back in 1960s. It has now spread all over the world making its mark on almost every field. As we all know digitization has made everything simpler and easy so it should be applied wherever possible to achieve high efficiency. Education is one such field where digitization can prove to be boom. Students of today’s era are less excited to ...

Need Of An Hour - Online Exams In Schools

School. Those wonderful years of our lives that we miss to this day and which created the foundation of our position in life today. School was our first step towards the learning environment and forms the basis of our educational development. How we experienced our schooling days and our first touch with nationalized exams (boards) gave us the head start to face examinations and life in general, till date. But did it really? In today’s time, most exams, some interviews and general procedures have mostly been transferred online. The transition from paper exams to giving online exams was a major challenge for most of us and it took considerable time to adapt to these changes. Coming from a minority government funded schooling environment, candidates now face vast issues in meeting expectations of computer knowledge. Isn’t it time that the next generation should start enjoying that edge right from day one? The requirement for online school exams is the need of the hour...