How Students Can Leverage Technology To Gauge & Improve Progress

Vivek Varshney Apr 27, 2022

As a result of quarantine and extended work-from-home periods, businesses in a multitude of sectors, including healthcare, education, banking, and manufacturing, were forced to employ technology to reinvent virtually every part of their operations. Education has received the brunt of the blow; because Covid-19 compelled schools to go remote overnight. Pureplay edtech companies too had no choice but to go online mode completely and this rapid adoption of technology resulted in a massive rise in users during the pandemic.

As this trend shifted, students were left stranded and clueless about what works the best for them. Most parents too felt that their children were not motivated enough to dive deeper whereas the reality was that they were switching between offline-online-offline due to circumstantial requirements.

Finally, schools and colleges have reopened, the market scape has changed and the students, as well as parents, have evolved. Although, shifting gears from a completely online mode to an offline mode is not an ideal approach and most institutes are taking the hybrid approach, i.e combining both online and offline strategies to give effective learning to students. This is the way forward but is best propagated only when students are at the core of this shift and not merely playing catch up. This is exactly the time when students need a viable and sustainable blended model of learning, aided by technology.

Fostered by technological advancements, students can track their progress, leverage analytics and statistics generated and ace at self-learning. This not only gives them a crystal-clear status of where they stand but also pushes them to improve in their weaker subjects and stride ahead. And all of this can be possible with tech-enabled, personalised practice-based learning platforms that give comprehensive insights into students' attempts, accuracy, conceptual gaps and much more.

Going beyond Lectures and Assessment

While it is proven that tech-based digital learning environments help students with creative thinking and learning-focused interactions, technology and data-driven systems powered with artificial intelligence can take learning a step further by providing deep insights for self-assessment and improvement areas. Such data and insights can inform the students about their own performance, giving them a chance to rethink their progress graphs and evaluation sheets.

With practice-based learning platforms, tech offers the power of more engaging, participatory and interactive lessons and tailored instruction catering to the students' learning needs. It enables a structured approach for every student on multiple aspects, with an improvement recommendation engine working towards giving the right study planner for every student.

Additionally, students get detailed reports on their learning journeys as well as the overall performance of their batch, which will help them focus their time and energy on the knowledge gaps they face. This in turn, will equip a student with more information, access and capability to prepare better for competitive exams.

In such a system, students can create customised tests and revision papers, at the click of a few buttons. Tests can be customised for certain focus areas that students select from according to the reports provided. Customised tests for every student are now available along with instant results and feedback reports, which was not possible earlier in the offline mode. Personalised assignments also can be issued to students as per their performances.

Track the study tasks and curate personalised learning journey

Tech has provided access for concept clarity in topics that are crucial for a student. Parents are happy with an uptick in do-it-at-your-own-pace kind of learning, and students find it easier to go with their own learning levels, where they are provided with one-to-one feedback.

Technology also enables platforms to build predictive models that can help students in benchmarking themselves against their peers and calibrate their goals on a real-time basis. Students can measure the batchwise performances and identify by tracking the strong and weak concepts, average score and attempt percentage etc.

Continuously and regularly benchmarking their own performance with the help of learning platforms, students get a deeper understanding of their strengths and weaknesses.

Such a system further enhances a student’s personalised performance. Since each student's learning speed and expertise level is different, it is obvious that the same type of learning methods or practice regimen will not be ideal for everyone. With AI processes and edtech, students can leverage on data-driven models to co-create customised learning programs along with their educators. Moreover, with a platform as robust as this, parents too can help understand their own child’s academic journey and effort and assist them with supplementary teaching or coaching if required.

If students can leverage the technology available to them at their fingertips for their educational improvements, edtech can reach them to newer heights that are yet to be explored by the younger generation.