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Simple ways universities and students can use technology for efficient work. Work smarter. University Business Staff

As a student or lecturer, I’m sure you’ve uttered the words “Thank God for technology!” If not those exact words, then you’ve probably come pretty close to saying something similar.

Technology has made life easier for millions of people worldwide, and students and universities couldn’t be happier about these technological advancements that have come to ease their workload. This article shall address several ways students and universities can use technology to work efficiently.
Benefits of technology in modern education
Many students often end up with challenges such as organising their research, grammar errors, and even plagiarism issues whenever it comes to submitting their work. As annoying as these errors are, lecturers and professors initially had to bear the brunt of “raw” copy. Fortunately, technology has helped learners quickly solve these issues using the many problem-solving avenues that it provides. Below are three crucial ways technology can make education more efficient.
Online research tools
You no longer need to spend a whole day perusing hundreds of book pages at the library while researching your term papers and projects. Technology has made it simpler for you by providing educational search engines that make research work much more manageable for students. A good example is Google Scholar. It offers reliable scholarly literature from many sources such as e-books, theses, articles, and academic publishers. It’s almost impossible to miss information on whatever discipline you are researching. Google Scholar is free to use, so try it out today if you didn’t know about it already.
Besides information search tools such as Google Scholar, Academia, and ResearchGate, you can also find other writing tools readily available on the internet. Purdue OWL helps students find citations and master different writing styles. Grammarly is also an excellent and reliable source when it comes to writing tools. It helps students correct their grammatical errors and improve their writing in general. Grammarly even has a plagiarism checker so you can avoid the disappointment of having your papers rejected.
Audio transcription
For most students, listening to long lectures can become mundane, meaning the chances of missing the topic content are high. Alternatively, there are times when one can’t attend classes but would still like to stay informed. In some other cases, your lecturer might be a fast-talker, and you can’t keep up no matter how hard you try. Fortunately, technology today allows us to bypass these complications. Anyone can record the lectures via a smartphone or any other recording device, then transcribe them later.
But what happens when you also don’t have the time or energy to transcribe three-hour-long lectures? Unsurprisingly technology is here to save the day once more. You can find online academic transcription services that can accurately transcribe all your audio materials. Academic transcriptions often come in handy when studying for exams and also for ESL students. Audio transcriptions are also useful for lecturers who sometimes have to teach the same material for multiple institutions or learning avenues such as online classes. Having audio transcriptions helps them disseminate the information quickly, making them work more efficiently.
Self-learning
It’s a common belief that most learning happens outside the classroom. And thanks to educational technology, many students can attest to this statement. There is a wide array of technology that enables students to undergo self-learning. Learners now have the chance to gain a better understanding of concepts taught in class through doing their self-assigned research. Those who struggle with grasping things also have the opportunity to learn at their own pace.There are various online learning methods such as videos and tutorials, virtual models and simulations, and e-books that students can use to learn. YouTube is one of the best visual learning platforms, with many self-learning students referring to themselves as YouTube graduates. With online learning tools, you can quickly turn your fate from being the student to the master. It all depends on your eagerness to learn and adapt.Technology can also help to make education a much more interactive and collaborative process. Email, course-based websites, and computer-based chat rooms are some of the technology-enabled resources that facilitate communication and teamwork among students.
Colleges and universities have generally been quick to adopt new technologies, often even before their educational value has been proven. Throughout its history, higher education has experimented with technological advances as diverse as the blackboard and the personal computer. Some technologies have become permanent parts of the higher education enterprise. Others, such as the slide rule and the 16-millimeter movie projector, have been replaced as more sophisticated or more cost-effective technologies have emerged to take their place.
At the dawn of the twenty-first century, new and rapidly improving technologies are in the process of transforming higher education. Each year since 1994, the Campus Computing Survey has shown increased use in college classrooms of technology-dependent resources such as e-mail, the Internet, course web pages, and computer simulations. Technology has the potential to revolutionize the traditional teaching and learning process. It can eliminate the barriers to education imposed by space and time and dramatically expand access to lifelong learning. Students no longer have to meet in the same place at the same time to learn together from an instructor. Fundamentally, modern technologies have the ability to change the conception of a higher education institution. No longer is a higher education institution necessarily a physical place with classrooms and residence halls where students come to pursue an advanced education. Thanks to recent developments in technology, the standard American image of a college or university as a collection of ivycovered buildings may need to be revised for the first time since the founding of Harvard in 1636.
Computers and telecommunications are the principal technologies reshaping higher education. Due to advances in each of these domains, electronic mail, fax machines, the World Wide Web, CDROMs, and commercially developed simulations and courseware are altering the daily operations and expanding the missions of colleges and universities.