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Use Digital Technologies to Make Your Classroom Future-Ready

Digital technologies are everywhere. The digital revolution along with the smartphone boom has triggered huge changes in how we access, consume, discuss, and share content. Naturally, learning has followed suit.

Learning that happens through a digital medium can be broadly termed as digital learning. This includes learning through e-learning courses, PowerPoint presentations, watching videos, reading e-books, listening to audio books, etc. All of these digital mediums can be incorporated into your organizational training in different ways.

You can create a full-fledged e-learning course, having various engaging and interactive elements or you can go for a blended learning approach that mixes digital elements with traditional classroom methods. Irrespective of the approach you choose to go with, digital learning creates a deep impact on your overall learning strategy. Let’s see how digital learning can augment, enhance or build on existing classroom training:

Increased Training Reach

Every person learns in a different way. Some learn by watching videos, some by listening to an instructor and others by reading. With digital learning, you can include different modes of conveying information in your program, by including an attractive video, or an easy to read infographic. This automatically increases the reach of your learning program, as every learner can connect with your training.

Going digital also enables your learners to access information at any time and place. So, if learners miss a classroom session or weren’t paying enough attention through it, they can always go back home, access the content online and fill the gaps in their knowledge. The effectiveness of your classroom sessions increases exponentially when a digital component is introduced in it.

Relevant and Up-to-date Content

No matter how effective traditional learning methods are, one thing they fail to accommodate is the changing nature of subject matter. Organizations constantly come up with new, or even updated, versions of their products and services. Classroom training with its non-centralized distribution model and scheduling issues makes it very difficult to keep up with the dynamic times.

Digital learning on the other hand, can be updated very easily and distributed across a worldwide audience almost instantly. More so, by using just-in-time learning or microlearning modules, you can convey even convey the smallest of changes in your subject matter to your learners, all across the globe.

Collaborative Learning

It is true that real collaboration happens when people interact face-to-face. But in this global world, where subject matter experts and industry veterans might be separated from you by a few countries, is face-to-face collaboration enough? Digital modules change this by offering learners various online discussion forums or social media groups to facilitate social learning.

Learners can get into meaningful discussions, clear doubts, exchange ideas at any convenient time and place. More so, they can get in touch with the best industry experts without worrying about the barriers of place and time.

Richer Learning

Classroom learning is restricted to an instructor conveying information to learners. The capabilities of the instructor can depend on his experience, communication skills, stage presence, etc. When you choose to include digital learning in your program, this restriction turns into endless opportunities. You can use a wide array of methods to impart learning. You can use games, scenario-based learning, gamified content, videos, audios, animation, simulations, and much more.

Use a flipped classroom approach if you want to make classroom an interactive session rather than just a passive-listening one. This plethora of learning tools help you create a richer and more diverse learning program, which greatly helps in boosting knowledge absorption, retention and recollection.

Cost-effective Training

Classroom training comes with a lot of attached costs. Right from arranging classrooms, to arranging transport, to booking accommodation, everything burns a hole in your pocket. The worst thing is, this is a recurring cost, as every time you need to train, you have to pay.

Adapting a digital approach can put an end to this. Developing a digital learning program, along with the implementation of a centralized Learning Management System is largely a one-time expense. Once your digital program is ready, you only have to pay for the occasional updates.

If you are in a doubt whether to adapt digital learning for your training program, then the above reasons have hopefully brushed them off. Digital learning is the need of the hour and if you hire experts to create a strategy for you, there is no way you can go wrong.

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