CIO opinion
CIO OPINION
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DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY
IS ENABLING TEACHERS
TO CREATE MORE
INTERACTIVE, ENGAGING,
FLEXIBLE LEARNING
MATERIALS.
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Ashith Piriyattiath, Group Head of IT, Al Masah Capital
Transforming
education
Ashith Piriyattiath, Group
Head of IT at Dubai-based Al
Masah Capital, tells Intelligent
CIO how digitisation is
impacting the education
sector in the Middle East.
T
he term digital transformation has been widely heard in the
academic sector in the last few years but most people have
conceptualised it in the wrong way so that the content of
learning is getting changed completely to equip the students to
adapt with the technology trends.
But in reality the digital technology is not basically changing the
content of learning- it is changing the method of the learning
‘process’ by making it more technologically fashionable where
students will get more exposure to the technology in the early
stages, making learning more interesting and interactive with the
concepts thoroughly dealt with in a fraction of the time of the
traditional education system.
Digital technology is enabling teachers to create more interactive,
engaging, flexible learning materials in a range of digital and
multimedia formats and make them available to students online.
Educators are also able to teach in a variety of different ways
in the classroom, using in-class technologies, online materials
and students’ own mobile devices. These changes are enabling
educators to have a more diverse set of pedagogical approaches to
support their learners, which means that they can be more inclusive
in their teaching methods.
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