Digitization is the process of converting information into a digital format. The result is the representation of an object, image, sound, document, or signal (usually an analog signal) obtained by generating a series of numbers that describe a discrete set of points or samples. The result is called digital representation or, more specifically, a digital image, for the object, and digital form, for the signal. In modern practice, the digitized data is in the form of binary numbers, which facilitates processing by digital computers and other operations, but digitizing simply means “the conversion of analog source material into a numerical format”; the decimal or any other number system can be used instead.
In the past 10-15 years, digitalization in education has gained momentum, with universities such as MIT, Harvard and Princeton starting to upload certain courses to major internet platforms. The online education, which became a necessity along with the restrictions brought by the Covid-19 pandemic, has led to a change in the understanding of education all around the world and has revealed many of the problems in this area, but online education is not only useful in these extreme scenarios. A properly planned remote education program is also an alternative for teachers and students after the pandemic.
The “Digitalization” course addresses problems in this area, examines also what it can bring to the table and how it should be used.
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