Educational content are nothing but learning resources including courses, lesson plans and learning objects used by educators to teach students. Educational content may be in the form of the visual images, audio, video with sound and animation. An educational content generates the interest of students towards the subject that can be missing in the traditional manner of teaching with just book. An educational content contain learning objectives for all the stages of the education. Educational content should contain the fundamental and practical aspects of the subject matter. A high quality educational content enhances the student knowledge about the subject and creates a learning environment which is full of motivation to learn and fun. A multimedia educational content improves the student memory and engagement in the classroom. Even the most difficult subject can be taught with ease and in depth with interactive educational content.
The most difficult part of the teacher is just not to create educational content but executing something that encourages students to become engaged in the learning process. An educational content should be well crafted and carefully presented to communicate students the lessons objectives. The important thing to be noted by teachers while designing and developing the educational content is to need and understanding level of their students. This will create the basic structure of the educational content to interact with the students. The second step in developing the educational content is to add ICT (information and communication technology) elements such as audio, video, graphics, animations etc to enforce learning concepts. This is called as ICT based educational content. The integration of the information and communication technology into the educational content enhances the efficiency of teachers to deliver lessons in an interactive manner creating a synergistic and informative learning environment. The difficult section of the curriculum can be taught in a fun environment and the concepts appear to be real by educational content.
The educational content is destined to stimulate communications of students with teachers, improve their memory and the concentration. It must be designed and developed as per the standards of the respective authorities across the globe. An important thing for the teachers is to use the updated the existing educational content regularly into their lessons. The delivery of contents becomes more powerful with ICT teaching tools such as Interactive whiteboards, Interactive panels, Interactive pads and Interactive Response system. Educators are used to annotate on these contents to explain lessons to students in an interactive manner enhancing the lessons and teaching quality.
