Digital Education @Core
- Adaptive vs Linear
- Personalized vs Generic
- Social
- Everywhere & all the time (cloud/mobile)
- Student-centric: UX is prime
- Content will make it or break it Personalization.
Content is at the center of digital education
- Digital curriculum ≠ PDF version of text books!
- Should not carry limitations of physical books
- It is total redesign of information flow & student experience
- It requires special expertise
- Digital content = curriculums + relevant content from other sources, including UGC and SM
- Modularity allows for customization
- modular architecture in content delivery solution
Challenges
- This involves change in culture, P&P
- We don’t have the power, except the power of convincing!
- Clear project KPIs: Show what’s working and what’s not
- Hands-on stakeholder management
- Continuously update, curate, translate & repurpose content
- Teacher training & empowering: focused, personalized instruction
- Easily create and manage reports according to specific criteria and data structures.
- Provide graphical representation of multiple formats of all the reports needed.
- Display dashboards that illustrate outcomes according to different user privileges which help continuous follow-up and evaluation of the daily performance.
- Provide individual efforts, productivity and performance compared to other employees on periods of time.
- Provide the ability to monitor all the workflow steps needed to author or publish content from any type of materials such as photos, videos, audios, documents, and articles.
- It calculates the time required to finalize all the processes so that the management can find out the daily, monthly, or yearly outputs, reports based on general or specific actions.
- Motivation and self- control: modern studies have shown that individual employee productivity increases when generally placed under control as it increases the presence of the competition factor between individuals.
- Individual Capacity: one of the main factors that give the employee job satisfaction is to note and appreciate his /her effort, this system lets managers note the capabilities of staff.
- Assist in the evaluation processes: the solution shows individual productivity which helps facilitate correct and precise evaluation done by the managers.
- Transparency: the solution provides transparency between employees and managers.
- Assist in decision-making processes : provides a full and detailed information on the performance and productivity to give managers best way to make decisions.
- Reduce error rates: when there is a control system error rates are reduced to the lowest level and self-supervision by employees rises.
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