Digital learning platforms for innovative and technological education

Education is the foundation of our economy. What we learn in school determines who we become as individuals and our success throughout our lives. It informs how we solve problems, how we work with others, and how we look at the world around us. In today's innovation economy, education becomes even more important for developing the next generation of innovators and creative thinkers. Teachers are implementing effective and interesting measures to evaluate student's learning outcomes. Technology in education gets plenty of hype. Digital learning is replacing traditional educational methods more and more each day. Many digital technologies are arising to make the education innovative and efficient. Some of them are smart class rooms, flipped class room and peer teaching. E-learning platforms like Massive Online Open Courses (MOOC), seesaw, epatasala, Modular Object-Oriented Dynamic Learning Environment (Moodle) are useful for innovation in distance education. since these plays a major role in the country's development our government has introduced a e-learning platform of MOOC known as Study Webs of Active-learning for Young Aspiring Minds(SWAYAM). IT platform that facilitates hosting of all the courses, taught in classrooms from 9th class till post-graduation to be accessed by anyone, anywhere at any time. All the courses are interactive, prepared by the best teachers in the country and are available at affordable cost to the residents in India. More than 1, 000 specially chosen faculty and teachers from across the Country have participated in preparing these courses. The techniques and platforms make education to be in the door step of the student community. This study provides an overview about the e-learning platforms, technological innovations in education (Interactive whiteboards, Flip classrooms, Digital library) and focus on the one of the MOOC Platforms known as SWAYAM program offered by the government of India.