Can technology solve the crises of higher education?
Technological
developments become advance, so technology in higher education also becoming advance.
Academic administration, as well as the instructional process, has been
familiar with the new technology. When
compared to previous methods of university operations such as student services,
housing, and administration, however, the teaching and learning process
probably is being changed most dramatically by technology.
Traditionally,
professors have used much of their class time with students to disseminate
information through lectures and follow-up discussion. This was especially the
case in introductory-level courses, where students lack a foundation in the
basic concepts and principles of a field. In an era of advanced technology,
this approach to instruction seems inefficient. Computers, can provide basic
information more efficiently and more cost effectively than human beings can.
Students can access course material when it is most convenient for them and
return to it as often as they need to achieve basic comprehension, competence,
or mastery. Teachers can assign assignments case studies and other related
materials easily through technology and can provide a digital platform through
Google classrooms etc. this can be more effective and all the students will get
excess to the class, they can see what other doing. Even they can comment
others work and by looking at teachers comment they may have chances to do the
correction. Since technology is a useful source of information. Higher
education students can get information about any topic to enrich their
knowledge so that it will be easy for them to score in their exams.
Technology can
also help to make education a much more interactive and collaborative process.
Email, course-based websites, and computer-based chat rooms are some of the
technology-enabled resources that facilitate communication and teamwork among
students. Research by education scholars has shown that collaborative learning
opportunities enhance recall, understanding, and problem solving. Technology
can greatly ease the work of collaborative design teams, peer writing groups, and
other types of collaborative learning groups, even among students who do not
live in the same geographic area and who cannot meet face to face.
While technology
helps to promote collaborative learning, it also helps to personalize and
individualize education. By reducing the need to deliver vast amounts of
information, technology can free an instructor to devote more time to
individual students. With more time to interact and get acquainted, professors
can adapt their teaching strategies and assignments to bring them more in line
with the interests and needs of the students in their classes. Technology's
capacity to deliver large quantities of information over networks also expands
the potential for tailoring educational programs to the specific needs of each
learner.
So technology
can solve the problems faced in higher education as it a way of interacting and
collaborating children through a network. This can provide students to gain
knowledge and be informative. It also will help students to be more familiar
with the changes that happens in education day by day.