Deeper Learning Collaboration Holds The Key

Online learning is often criticised because it doesn't evoke the same sense of belonging as offline, faceto-face education and affects students’ mental health. As per Mckinsey, it leads to unfinished learning, especially in numeric sciences, which only compounds over the years. While there is little for us to debate, there is a need for effortless collaboration to help eliminate the learning gap.

In a traditional scenario, several children would gather in a class to discuss things that would possibly shape their lives. While even that required a careful scaffolding of several elements to undertake deeper learning beyond the words written in a textbook, the online landscape is an entirely different ball game.

Not to take anything away from the teachers, they have been trying hard to bring students sitting hundreds of kilometres away from each other by offering opportunities to undertake meaningful tasks to help engagement. Still, there have been bottlenecks that effective collaboration can only eliminate

For example, Tata Teleservices has partnered with Zoom to offer a superior video experience, enabling teachers and students to help engage in deeper learning. The idea is to develop a ‘digital first’ mindset to eliminate the bottlenecks and allow effective collaboration.

Most of us would engage in offline education before Covid came through. But once it did, the entire landscape turned on its head, and there was no way for most students to leave their homes and undertake offline education. The development of solutions like TTBS Zoom Solution Suite ensured that deeper learning was taken care of with intuitive software that offered dedicated features for the same.

What is deeper learning?

The idea of deeper learning is simple – it looks beyond bookish knowledge and focuses on developing knowledge, abilities, and competencies that would enable the students to tackle real-world problems. It also promotes the need to succeed by building complex understanding instead of focusing on the surface alone to help learners live, work, and be good citizens.

What are the steps to establish an influential deeper learning culture amongst students in an online education scenario?

The online education scenario, while trying to replicate the classic experience as much as possible, has many quirks that make it different. Here are some steps that can help educators establish a compelling and more profound learning culture effortlessly –

Establishing group agreements:

When you are in an online education scenario, it is vital to decide on the group norms from the onset. It includes establishing that students can only talk when allowed to and respecting each other's space. Teachers can introduce a poster or a hand sign to enable learners to convey that they have something to say.

Establishing accountability:

We can further augment the idea of deeper learning by setting higher accountability levels. For example, if students have been given the task of analysing an essay, the teacher can assign roles, such as a recorder, discussion manager, and as required, to ensure that everyone knows their job well. It would also propel every individual to perform their task well, as that is linked to the group’s success/failure.

Software like Zoom allows creating a Personal Meeting ID (PMI) that students can start anytime or schedule for future use. It would enable the groups to meet and discuss their plans with ease.

Propel students to ask questions:

Deeper learning can also be established by pushing students to think and ask interesting questions. Teachers can introduce students to invitations questions and those that are open-ended and thoughtinvoking. It would allow them to be creative and do a lot of brainstorming to come up with interesting answers and similar questions themselves.

Zoom allows students to share video clips with audio to establish further the questions they are trying to ask. It is a game-changer and can enable learners to demonstrate their thoughts and give others enough bandwidth to explore the topic.

Undertake deeper learning with Zoom

The idea of deeper learning will be a failure if teachers resort to one-way communication. It is necessary for them to allow the learners to speak their hearts out and build their confidence.

While the online education-undertaking generation can often come out as shy and unwilling to express, software like Zoom can be the problem solver. It has introduced the ability to assign co-hosts and polling to allow everyone to participate. It has allowed educators to set interesting real-life emulating projects for their students and enabled groups to brainstorm together and learn vital real-life lessons along the way.

So Tata Tele Business Services (TTBS) has introduced a Zoom Solution Suite aimed to simplify video conferencing across all your devices. It offers a cohesive integration and helps you to host online events encompassing over 10,000 attendees and up to 100 interactive video participants. In addition, we have also upped the security to ensure you can seamlessly operate your classes without worrying about any unwanted intrusion.

Click here to engage in deeper learning with TTBS Zoom Solution Suite.