Importance of Digitalization in Education

Today, digital platforms have become an integral part of our daily routine. Digitalization in education has revolutionized the industry in a big way. With the technologies continuing to grow and providing newer avenues for learning, it is essential for the educators and students to embrace a digital form of learning in a big way by adopting a more cohesive hybrid and blended form of learning to accelerate the learning process and thereby enhancing the overall learning experience.

The growth of technology has resulted in positive learning experience, effective teaching methods and engagements, and better knowledge retention. By digitalization in education, we mean, providing access to education through various digital tools and resources, along with technology to maximize the learning experience which is also known as Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL), digital learning or eLearning. In other words, Digitalized education is a blend of instructional, digital resources and technology.

The benefits of digitalization in education include:
1. Widening the scope of learning opportunities by opening the doors to diverse groups of students attending the course from around the world.
2. Facilitates collaboration by bringing people who are remotely connected together through video conferencing, sharing documents etc. With the emergence of digitalized education, forming different groups, teams, events etc has made it easy and you can make separate groups in Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Skype or whatever platform.
3. Personalized Learning . Previously, all the teaching methodologies and instructions were designed with the whole class in mind but in digitalized learning, there is scope for personalized attention if the student is found lacking in certain areas. In other words, educators can customize the curriculum based on students learning speed and ability.
4. Scalability: Digitalized Education can expand the reach of learning to the remotest areas where education is not accessable.
5. Gamification : can be incorporated into the course design to motivate the students with reward points and real-time feedbacks.
6. Facilitates self-directed learning by providing an ideal framework for each student’s learning journey. Digital learning enlarges their efficiency and productivity skills.
7. Easily accessible resources and study materials at any time, any place.
8. Track progress of students quickly with examination results, assignments, and student assessment to enable the teachers to focus on weak areas and take corrective action. Digital assessment includes time-saving features that make grading and giving feedback simpler and more effective.
9. Improves digital literacy: In today’s technology age, we all need to be digitally literate to understand the learning process. Digital literacy is the ability to use technology to access information.
10. Better Engagement: provide a wide variety of opportunities to access information to support learning in the form of text, images, videos, etc
11. Digital Classrooms: The use of online technology-enabled classrooms with LMS, Authoring tools, digital blackboards etc provides a better learning experience for the students.
12. Provide extensive resources for better knowledge retention
13. Facilitate the use of newer technologies like micro-learning, Artificial Intelligence, Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality and Extended Reality etc.,
14. Facilitate different mode of learning like Hybrid and Blended Learning
15. Building Peer-to-Peer community among students for sharing contents and knowledge.
16. Time and Cost efficiency.
17 Flexible Learning
18. Innovative contents
19. Easier for Instructors to generate instructional materials with available tools and resources.
20. Operation automation: Automating day-to-day operations like attendance tracking, performance monitoring etc reduces the number of repetitive, time consuming duties that a teacher undertakes.


Digitalization in education helps students to acquire the skills they need to navigate through technology and get the best of the information provided. Students in digitalized education are comfortable in accessing, consuming and sharing the contents with peers. The broad scope that digitalized education provides to students for a range of content types, helps student stay engaged as they are building valuable skills that will serve them in their personal and professional career as they embark on their digital learning journey. The involvement of digital platform such as webinar, hybrid and blended learning, virtual and augmented reality, Artificial Intelligence enabled Smart Classrooms etc have become the new chalk and board of digitalized educational systems worldwide.

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