Emerging Technologies in Ensuring Quality of Education

Abstract

Education has by now a day is fully technological domain, where technology was otherwise limited to laboratories and experimental hubs. A new learning culture is in a way of making which is broad, collaborative, feasible and encompassing. The adoption of different technologies has allowed access to quality education and learning materials to students from developing countries and has led to unprecedented growth in the number of students opting for courses from the best ranked institutions. With the advent of the World Wide Web, and social media and other software that promote the creation of user sourced content and communication (Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube). The students in classrooms are millennial learners and digital natives; they constantly rely on technology for communication and social interaction in and outside the classroom. Lecturers can use the Internet, digital media tools, and common software applications to enhance student learning.. Thus there is a need to understand the relationship between students’ learning styles and their preferences for instructional strategies, including the use of emerging web technologies and social media. Since learning styles provide information about individual differences in learning preferences they can suggest how instruction can be best designed to support the learning preferences. Also we also neglect the role of student feedback in ensuring quality deliverance and dissemination of knowledge by the lecturer. We often tend to ignore the students’ role in contributing towards the quality of education in the higher education departments. In this paper, a research framework has been proposed to incorporate emerging web technologies and social media into higher education based on students’ learning styles and technology preferences and also the role of student feedback in ensuring quality education.