Keywords
Higher Education
Enhanced Learning
Digital Integration
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Abstract
Digital integration facilitates to enhance learning and stimulates students to attain success in their academics as well as enriches the quality of education. This enhanced learning process employed a questionnaire to survey the teaching staff and the students of Pakistan Private High Schools respectively. Digital approaches were extensively used by both the respondents and their responses divulged utilization, motivations or discontinuation of digital tools. The teaching staff used textbooks, and other media to enhance the learning process. On contrary, student survey demonstrated their perceptions regarding digitalized education that influenced their learning, their preferred digital tool, and their progress. Eighty-one percent students agreed that digital integration enhanced their learning. Moreover, their use and inclination for digital tools proposed that students are in favour of resources that are used by teaching staff to enhance learning. Interestingly, the outcomes revealed that technology facilitated student’s learning because it increases communication skills, accessibility and inclusion to learn independently. Digital integration, monitoring and evaluation will offer a strategic planning process and help in developing institutions prevailing learning procedures.
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