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Educational publishing has stayed monotonous for many decades until recent trends included the use of mobile applications and tools, which changed the game. These apps benefited teachers and students alike by making education more practical than ever. With today’s technology, educational content has become more fluid, flexible, and fun. So it is time for publishers to focus on developing content that can keep up with the pace at which education is changing worldwide.
Mobile App Technology
The technology used in educational mobile apps nowadays is cutting edge and up-to-date. Artificial intelligence is used to track the learning curve and make changes in the schedule and curriculum accordingly. AI-assisted learning paves the way for systemic self-learning through personalization. Chatbots are used to give apps a personal touch and clear the doubts that students have instantly.
Augmented reality and virtual reality features are not commonly used in apps, but they are not new to mobile apps. They can greatly help students with learning difficulties by providing them an immersive learning experience.
Gamification of content is highly popular and makes the learning process more engaging and understandable. Virtual labs and quizzes can be set by teachers themselves. Apps are capable of sending push notifications, maintaining schedules, and reminding students of classes.
Benefits of Mobile-Based Education
Mobile devices can be carried anywhere with ease, which gives us the option to log into the app and access the information we need at any time using simple steps. The need to carry materials, notes, and books is longer there. All information is stored in databases that the student can download from anywhere and use offline or view online. This also reduces the carbon footprint by cutting down on the use of paper.
Content, assessments, projects, interactive quizzes, and educative games can be created and shared through these apps. Monitoring students, tracking their progress, marking their presence in classes, scoring assessments, giving feedback, and mentoring for competitive exams are easier with app tools. Students from poor financial backgrounds can use free mobile apps.
Comfort through Education Technology
Students can set a pace of their own and learn in the comfort of their homes. Travel and unnecessary wastage of time are avoided. In pandemic times like these, when social distancing is a must, the importance of mobile education apps cannot be stressed enough. People with sensory or cognitive disabilities can use the assistive tools they are familiar with to learn from educational apps. Content can also be translated into an easily comprehensible language. Parents, teachers, and students can communicate without barriers through simple notifications and reports. Students also have options to interact with their peers in some mobile apps.
Education publishers must make use of the many opportunities that mobile-assisted learning has brought into education trends. We have come far from the days when only traditional learning methods were in vogue, and educational content has to metamorphose into enriched multimedia-learning technologies to make a good profit.
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