A Brief Report on Current Educational Innovations (eBook)

Essay from the year 2019 in the subject Pedagogy - Media Pedagogy, grade: 80, The Open University (School of Educational Technology), course: Openness and Innovation in e-Learning, language: English, abstract: This short report is developed for a child-focused organization that provides a range of training in the humanitarian refugee settings. The organization is in charge of child protection, ensuring children’s physical, social, emotional and cognitive development through different psychosocial activities and life skills sessions held in traditional classrooms. Furthermore, the organization uses the same approach to build and strengthen the capacity of partner organization staffs, local authorities and community structures. The organization is currently planning to run tablet-based sessions in different centers for children and adolescents, an approach that supports different new technologies and pedagogies, described as eLearning innovations.

The emergence of the knowledge society and the knowledge-based economy marks a new era for education and training. In response to the growing global demand for higher education, recent studies highlight that there is remarkable increasing use of technology in education. As eLearning evolves, different education institutions and training providers are gradually forced to adopt very recent innovations that meet the current education needs according to their spheres.