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Challenges, opportunities, and prospects of adopting and using smart digital technologies in learning environments: An iterative review()

The adoption of smart digital technologies in the education system has grown exponentially over the years, creating new possibilities to improve teaching and enhance learning. Against this backdrop, the ‘brick-and-mortar’ education approach survives on life support, with digital technologies promoti...

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Autores principales: Mhlongo, Siyabonga, Mbatha, Khanyisile, Ramatsetse, Boitumelo, Dlamini, Reuben
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10238696/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37274691
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2023.e16348
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author Mhlongo, Siyabonga
Mbatha, Khanyisile
Ramatsetse, Boitumelo
Dlamini, Reuben
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description The adoption of smart digital technologies in the education system has grown exponentially over the years, creating new possibilities to improve teaching and enhance learning. Against this backdrop, the ‘brick-and-mortar’ education approach survives on life support, with digital technologies promoting ubiquitous teaching and learning. Through complexity theory, this study uses an iterative review research approach comprising of nine steps to frame the study of smart digital education. The complexity theory lens provides an appropriate framework to reason about the complexities that surface due to interactions of the elements of smart digital technologies in the education system. The complementary strength of the adopted methodological approach led to multiple discourses on technology-enabled and technology-enhanced learning environments. In particular, four broad themes emerged, which demonstrated the prevalence of various technologies and how they interact as a means of making sense of the emerging digitally-enabled education environment. Through these themes, this paper highlights digitalisation affordances (which include multimodality, a/synchronicity, and new forms of engagement), discusses the key challenges and complexities of digitally enabled education, and advances the discourse on how digitalisation can support and promote inclusivity amidst historic challenges. Finally, it discusses how the advancement of technologies provides a new paradigm of learning, revolutionises knowledge construction, and extends and enriches the ‘brick-and-mortar’ learning environment to enhance the educational experience. As a future research agenda, this paper recommends comprehensive end-to-end programmes and innovative ways to conceptualise and execute digitally-enabled education that provides equity-oriented opportunities for cognitive development.
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spelling pubmed-102386962023-06-04 Challenges, opportunities, and prospects of adopting and using smart digital technologies in learning environments: An iterative review() Mhlongo, Siyabonga Mbatha, Khanyisile Ramatsetse, Boitumelo Dlamini, Reuben Heliyon Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis The adoption of smart digital technologies in the education system has grown exponentially over the years, creating new possibilities to improve teaching and enhance learning. Against this backdrop, the ‘brick-and-mortar’ education approach survives on life support, with digital technologies promoting ubiquitous teaching and learning. Through complexity theory, this study uses an iterative review research approach comprising of nine steps to frame the study of smart digital education. The complexity theory lens provides an appropriate framework to reason about the complexities that surface due to interactions of the elements of smart digital technologies in the education system. The complementary strength of the adopted methodological approach led to multiple discourses on technology-enabled and technology-enhanced learning environments. In particular, four broad themes emerged, which demonstrated the prevalence of various technologies and how they interact as a means of making sense of the emerging digitally-enabled education environment. Through these themes, this paper highlights digitalisation affordances (which include multimodality, a/synchronicity, and new forms of engagement), discusses the key challenges and complexities of digitally enabled education, and advances the discourse on how digitalisation can support and promote inclusivity amidst historic challenges. Finally, it discusses how the advancement of technologies provides a new paradigm of learning, revolutionises knowledge construction, and extends and enriches the ‘brick-and-mortar’ learning environment to enhance the educational experience. As a future research agenda, this paper recommends comprehensive end-to-end programmes and innovative ways to conceptualise and execute digitally-enabled education that provides equity-oriented opportunities for cognitive development. Elsevier 2023-05-18 /pmc/articles/PMC10238696/ /pubmed/37274691 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2023.e16348 Text en © 2023 The Author(s) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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title Challenges, opportunities, and prospects of adopting and using smart digital technologies in learning environments: An iterative review()
title_full Challenges, opportunities, and prospects of adopting and using smart digital technologies in learning environments: An iterative review()
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title_full_unstemmed Challenges, opportunities, and prospects of adopting and using smart digital technologies in learning environments: An iterative review()
title_short Challenges, opportunities, and prospects of adopting and using smart digital technologies in learning environments: An iterative review()
title_sort challenges, opportunities, and prospects of adopting and using smart digital technologies in learning environments: an iterative review()
topic Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10238696/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37274691
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2023.e16348
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