Abstract
ICT-enhanced educational tools and approaches offer a new range of options and opportunities to improve the efficiency of teaching and learning to boost individual student performance and thus, in many cases, avoid the challenge of exclusion and poverty related to skills deficit. The authors suggest that digital games, online applications, tablet use, MOOCs, and micro courses can boost student exposure to specific course material, thus assisting in the acquisition of knowledge, skills, and attitudes.
TopUse Of Icts In Education
Technologies are being incorporated into people's daily lives at an accelerated and functional rate for this new modern lifestyle, causing a great change in the environments in which people move and improving productivity and quality of teaching (Quiroga et al., 2019). Also, the incorporation of ICT in the educational context is seen as an opportunity to expand the range of resources, teaching strategies and communication modalities to improve, optimize and achieve educational work (Garassini & Padrón, 2004).
Key Terms in this Chapter
MOOCs: Online courses available to anyone with a computer and Internet connection.
Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs): Is a broader term for Information Technology (IT), which refers to all communication technologies, including the internet, wireless networks, cell phones, computers, software, middleware, videoconferencing, social networking, and other media applications and services enabling users to access, retrieve, store, transmit, and manipulate information in a digital form.