A recent Pearson Education survey found that at least 84 percent of students, teachers and administrators said a shift to digital could help with the challenges they face. About 82 percent of those surveyed also said that digital is the future, but only 56 percent said that more than half of their courses are offering some sort of digital courseware.

As the survey puts it, “we can see a clear and vast opportunity to transform the classrooms of today, for educators to be key allies in advancing teaching and learning through innovative and research-driven technology”. The survey emphasizes that “educators can ensure that their technology experience in education matches the digital reality that today’s students are facing in their day-to-day lives”.

EdTech magazine highlights that textbook prices had risen about 1 thousand percent in the laxt four decades, and a single course nowadays costs around $100 for a student – digital options, like openly licensed textbooks and different kinds of learning systems can save this money for the students. Moreover, on a digital platform, it is easy to hold students accountable for their work, and through a homework dashboard, the faculty can see what is going on with the learning”.

Although, a recent study found that while early adopters of these course technologies found little cost savings and small positive effects of grades, but there were high levels of student and instructor satisfaction in two-year academic programs.

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