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Spreading Awareness on Education Technology

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  • About

    Who we are

    EdTechReview (ETR) is a community for students, teachers, decision makers, and parents dedicated to spread awareness on education technology, through best research and practices of using technology in education, by providing professional development, training and support in its adoption and implementation.

    EdTechReview (ETR) is a community for educators and learners where they can find useful news, insights, product reviews, resources, events, training and consultation on education technology to improve teaching, learning and hence education.

    EdTechReview brings to its members the best products and technologies being used in the field of education with expert advice and training on how to use and implement them.

    What we do

    We aim at spreading awareness on education technology by helping people understand the need and role of technology in education, and guide them through its adoption and implementation to improve productivity and efficacy of education. We want to enhance the relation between technology and education through the following:

    • Curating and reviewing various products, apps and tools which provide an impetus and lucidity to teaching, learning and other educational tasks.
    • By not only providing technology products and tools for education, but also providing training on how to use them effectively. 
    • By helping you understand how technology is transforming education in colleges and universities across the globe by our cutting edge research. Reviewing and bringing to you the edtech practices across various universities and college, so that you as adopters can successfully learn and implement those practices for yourself and your campuses as well.
    • By providing training and consultation for edtech adoption and implementation for your various educational needs and pain points.
    • By organizing various events, workshops, seminars, webinars and conferences related to education technology and sharing them with our community. Ranging from training workshops on how to use a particular product to seminars on best teaching and pedagogical practices in classroom,  to events or conferences dedicated to make the people aware about latest education technology trends and predictions, to keep up with the pace of technology.

     

  • Features

    News, Trends and Insight

    • The news provides you with the most exclusive EdTech information you cannot afford to miss.
    • Trends deliver the latest fashion in terms of Education Technology, methodologies that are being followed or are about to come to keep the Education Sector and the other things around the world neck and neck.
    • Insight covers the understanding and views of products and technologies by educators and learners regarding the emerging education technology industry.

    Product Reviews

    Whether you are looking for a product for online quizzes, online assignments, or to gather student feedback during lecture, or to learn math in form of a game, or to manage your whole campus online we have all products appropriate to your needs covered.

    A directory of products with reviews on it are created for users to get more classified and organized content.

    Case Studies and Reports

    In depth research on various edtech products, vendors or campus edtech practices will be covered in form of case studies and reports.

    Campus EdTech

    We bring to you, the edtech experiences and practices within a campus. The use of technology in campuses all around the nation will be reviewed and shared.

    EdTech Dictionary

    There are several terms being used around the globe in context of education technology, we make you aware on those with their most logical and contextual meaning.

  • FAQ's

    Why are we doing this?

    The lack of awareness on the use of technology in education enhancement will land up to a situation of no survival in this current age of “knowledge bombardment”.

    We want educators to be exposed to the pace of growth of technology and match it with a combination of knowledge on what is best for them and open minds to its adoption.

    The news, trends, updates, data & statistics, case studies, events, apps/tools and campus reviews related to Education Technology in developing nations is at present the requirement for institute educators to keep up the pace with that of technology in the world.

    How will you benefit?

    We will be helpful to you by providing you with a community where you can get solutions to your EdTech pain points through our reviews and articles or directly from the EdTech vendors as well, who are also members of the same community.

    We offer list of products, apps and tools for you to decide on which one to use them according to your requirements with the help of our reviews on each product and enhance the level of education being delivered. The products, apps and tools can be used to enhance your management and learning skills, learning experience, ability to learn, getting the right resources, teaching experience, interaction with student and many other educational processes.

Online Courses: Break The Myth

 

One such aspect in which we still continue to be traditional is in matters of education. Institutionalized learning continues to top our priority list and stand-alone online learning modules are looked down upon by us. Only when online tools are used to supplement the normal learning process that majority of us approve of it. The majority believes that students pursuing an online degree are buying a degree or are simply not smart enough for ‘traditional’ education. Clearly, online learning continues to be surrounded by myths and carries a stigma in the Indian society.

However, online courses aren't as redundant as one might think. Moreover, it is important for us, keeping the growing population and space crunch in mind, to break the myths associated with online learning and look at them from a fresh perspective.

One of the most important stereotypes regarding online courses is that it is for those, who can't cut it in real academia. While this may be partially true in the present scenario, this is not always the case either. In fact, online education is just as good, if not better than traditional education and becomes all the more useful for those, who're employed, and would still want to enhance their qualifications while working. Though it is true that such a course can take less time as compared to a traditional degree, there's no compromise on the level of hard work. Some of the other commonly associated beliefs about students who've been trained through online education includes the myth that online learners are slackers, who are too lazy to attend college. Also, they are scared of social interactions, which is why they prefer to pursue an online degree.

It is disappointing that despite our claims of being progressive, we tend to fall into such regressive stereotypes. But the community is not at fault either. For a community in which the World Wide Web and Internet connection is yet to reach every household, till the grass root level of the country, this acceptance of the integration of advent of online modes of education as equivalent to the traditional modes will be a slow process. The best we can do is try and keep our minds open to such flourishing options and not dismiss them entirely.

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