Advantages of digital learning materials

You have now learned about different categories of digital learning materials and tools that you can use to create digital learning materials.

What are the advantages of digital learning materials?

• Visualisation of complex relationships and issues of the learning content
• Relevance to everyday life: digital media are playing an increasingly important role in people’s everyday lives
• Motivation through the use of a digital medium
• Multimodality through the use of different media, for example, auditory or visual representations of learning content
• Flexibility for the learner – learners can decide when and where they want to learn as the content can be accessed anytime and anywhere
• Reusability through different embedding options in lessons through more flexible and effective teaching and learning methods
• Change of perspective: can help to look at things “from the other side”
• Internal differentiation for different learning types, e.g. by providing in-depth information (accessible in these learning modules via the smiley – the emoticon with the glasses)