How smart classroom facilitates research, analytics and real time study for Management

How smart classroom facilitates research, analytics and real time study for Management

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Updated on Apr 24, 2020 03:03 IST

Smart Classrooms are technology-enhanced classrooms that foster opportunities for teaching and learning by integrating learning technology, such as computers, specialized software, audience response technology, assistive listening devices, networking, and audio/visual capabilities.

Importance of smart classrooms

  • Improved Learning Experience

It is an accepted fact that learning through visuals, helps in better grasping of a subject. It enhances the ability of students to learn a topic and visualize concepts in their minds, making them easier to learn. Smartboard technology turns a boring lecture into a wonderfully, interactive session. Animations, visuals and previews allow for better student engagement

  • Interactive Learning

 Flanders’s Interaction Analysis Category System showed that interaction between teacher and students were higher in Smart Classroom than a traditional classroom. The experiment showed that Smart Classrooms have more positive effects on education than the traditional classroom.

  • Easy Access to Online Resources

As smart classes have digital display boards that are synchronized therefore a teacher can easily explain each and every part of the lesson with some special effects and graphic presentations. It also helps in creating a quick question-answer session between teachers and students that actually makes a creative learning environment in the classroom.

  • Environment Friendly and Easy to Maintain

In Smart classrooms, there is no need for paper, pen, pencil & printouts thus helping to keep nature clean and green. Smart classes use electronic tools that are easy to use and maintain. The digital pen and other electronic gadgets have quite low maintenance costs.

  • Time Saving and Productivity Enhancement

There is no need for teachers to ask students to make notes, as the presentation can be shared directly with everyone saving a lot of time for both teachers and students. In contrast to the traditional learning method, smart class technology allows students to make online presentations and get quicker feedback. This helps to attain good results leading to improved productivity.

Impact on students about the smart classrooms

  • The students are the next most prone to the e-learning process.
  • The students now no longer have to be dependent on teachers for studies, the smart class n e-learning technologies help a student to cover up with his/her subjects sitting at home.
  • E-Learning is becoming popular among the students as this makes them independent. For students, the e-class costs less than annual tuition fees.

The SMART classroom and E-learning is a one-stop resource for students needing research, technology, or writing help, specifically aimed at the research needs of undergraduate students.

The usage of this new technology must be encouraged in the current education system. The E-learning and smart classroom provide the students as well as the teacher to learn through new techniques and too in a different and interesting manner.

A major benefit of the smart classroom is an Enhanced Learning Experience for the students, as visual learning is faster and easily relatable to a learner. It brings different curriculum concepts to life inside the classroom.

This Interactive Learning Experience for the learner aids a better grasp of concepts and theory and brings to life the practical application. 

Video and audio formats are integrated, and the easier access to online learning resources available, make the subject relatable for the students. The use of technology, is also a great time saver and manual work in education, is greatly reduced.

The Indian government is laying great focus for all educational institutions to adopt the Smart Class Rooms and Virtual learning.  Now with social distancing in place due to COVID health concerns, the process of using Smart technology has already started and will soon be a way of life and will enhance the capability of students to learn faster and will gain more and more interest towards learning & education.

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