Utilising digital education to enhance learning accessibility in isolated areas
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.56294/sctconf2024.1238Keywords:
Distance education, Education access, Digital literacy, E-learning resources, Learning flexibility, Interactive learningAbstract
Introduction: In instances where conventional educational institutions are either unavailable or ineffective, online platforms offer a distinctive opportunity to obtain quality education regardless of geographical location. The advantages of online learning include flexible scheduling, access to educational content, and the capacity to communicate with instructors and other students via the Internet. Concurrently, numerous challenges are encountered by students and teachers utilising online platforms, including unstable internet connections and the need to self-organise the learning process.
Objective: To determine the role and efficacy of online learning in providing access to education in remote regions.
Methods : an analytical literature review, a meta-analysis, a quality of education analysis, a learning effectiveness determination, and a statistical data analysis. Type of research is observational research, timeframe of the research is an academic semester, field of research is the educational process in higher education, platform used for the research is the higher education environment, type of statistics is descriptive.
Results : The article compares the use of standard online tools and interactive online tools to provide access to education in remote regions. The means of monitoring the results of higher education students include educational test simulators and gamified tasks.
Conclusions : A comparison of learning outcomes and self-assessment of higher education students studying mathematics and English using traditional and interactive online tools has revealed the effectiveness of the latter: interactive video lectures and online courses, virtual laboratories and mobile applications, AR and VR explanations, chatbots, forums, and online conferences
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