E-Learning - Learn while Playing

“I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.” by Confucius the famous Chinese philosopher & reformer.
On the same lines have you ever noticed children picking up things faster when the medium is learning the concept through playing and listening stories rather than reading and memorizing it? Have you ever thought why they always remember the concepts told in the form of stories or games? Not only children but young and elderly also remember things told in the form of stories and games or jingles. We still remember the bedtime stories told to us by our grandparents and parents with moral, but don’t really remember the algebra formula taught by the teacher.

Technology revolves around us to make things simpler and the curious IT professionals understood this concept of learning through interactive system in terms of games and stories and discovered a new way of learning. This innovative idea of blending technology with learning is named as E-learning. E-learning programs are designed in such a way that it makes learning fun and full of excitement.
Most of the companies, small and big, are focusing on creating games and simulations for teaching various educational concepts to kids with the help of E-learning applications. This is creating a huge revolution in the field of learning and now e-learning is giving a new dimension to the meaning of learning or education.

Now you are not required to run to your institutes or colleges to attend your class, because the same course can be learnt with all the comfort of your home or office.
These courses are made interactive and exciting with the help of animations, illustrations, images and videos. At the end of each course, the students are introduced with quizzes and exercises to ensure they can apply the lesson learned.
Thus, e-learning supports in the learner’s development but in an interactive way. The combination of instructional design and multimedia creates an exciting environment for learning. The user can repeat the lessons for better understanding hence the option of revision also exists. The learner is introduced with exercise after every topic so that he can recall what he has learnt in that section and solve the problem on his own, which builds up learner’s confidence. At times interesting hints are also provided to the learner while taking the course as well as while performing the exercise.
These small and interactive steps ensure that the concept is learnt in a better way and the learner is confident that they will be able to apply the learning.

It would be difficult to fill in the excitement of this system in this provided space but to conclude we can say the systems are in place, and the time has come when we will finally say an adieu to the old method of rot learning and put our feet forward towards these interactive learning experiences, where we can truly say and mean “Learning is Fun…”