Top 10 educational mobile apps that empowers digital transformation

This is the era of digital transformation, where anything & everything is

powered with mobility. Mobility solutions, have simplified our daily

lives, enabling ease and convenience. Everything from grocery to flight

tickets is at our figure tips. Over the past few decades, technology is

influencing significantly on children and education sector. The

advancement of technology has made it possible for every individual to

access any type of content over the internet enabled mobile devices.

With the worldwide reach of the internet and smart devices a new age of

a whenever-wherever education is dawning. Educational app is the 3rd

most frequently downloaded category of apps in September 2016, at

8.82%. The app stores are flooded with educational mobile apps and the

educational apps for disabled people. The replacement of boring books

with colorful e-books having interactive features has made learning fun

to the core. Mobility solutions powered with interactive elements and

ease of access have made it possible for the today’s tech-savy students to

grasp complex concepts with ease.

So, what are such amazing solutions and apps already available in the

market to take a reference from for your next educational mobile app

idea? Below is the list of top 10 educational apps which will educate you

about the features that you should count on for your next app project.

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Edx

Edx provides the free online courses from the world’s best universities.

The app has courses for the subject like big data, biology, calculus,

robotics and much more. Providing students the lectures from the best

teachers will help them to grasp the difficult concept easily. The app

provides free education anywhere and anytime. The features of the app

are:

Stream class videos

Scheduled tutorials

Course video can be downloaded to watch anytime

Lectures from best educators

Basic quiz and exams

Follow along the course announcement and handouts

NLR Schools

The app is customized according to the requirements of the school. The

app provides latest social media school updates, and easy navigation

through the current news and events. Think of accessing any data of

school and the app offers that on your fingertips.

Lunch menus

Attached calendar for the curriculum

Google map integration for locating school

School directory

Online fees payment

Periodic table

Keep the chemistry in your pocket. The app has the most interactive

periodic table ever. The interesting and informative facts about each

element makes the app more engaging. The electron shell diagram

interactively explains the electron distribution of the element.

Molar mass calculator

Solubility charts

Isotope lists

118 elements

Interactive facts of each element

KHAN Academy

Khan academy app provides free videos and explanations of almost

anything. The “your list” section allows bookmarking favorite content.

The videos are filled with useful diagrams and information. Teachers

can create a class and add students to it. The app provides the educators

an insight into the student’s progress.

Categorized content

Interactive exercises

Faster navigation and search

In-depth articles

Up-to-date progress

Downloading option available

Star walk

Star walk app shows the all the celestial objects pointed by your device

camera tagged with their names. The guide has the data of over 9000

man-made satellites. Star walk will help you to save the date of the

meteor shower. Track the each celestial body in the sky with no data

signal or GPS required.

Night mode to avoid eyes strain

Calender of celestial events

Augmented reality icon

Time machine option to see the sky view years ago

Presence of satellites

Studious

The app is a perfect homework planner for today’s tech-savvy

generation. The app allows to organize the homework and exams,

improving time management skills. Studious saves your homework

assignments and organize them by the due dates.

Notes making and saving

Dashboard for the pending assignments

Automatically silent your device in the classroom

Track of the courses

Quick emails to the professors

Remind you of the due homework and tests

Quizlet

Quizlet is an interactive flashcard app. Create a new flashcard or choose

from the flashcards created by others. The offline access of the app

makes it more appealing. More than 18 Foreign languages are available

to learn including Spanish, German, French and Chinese.

In-class quiz test

Shareable study material

Pronunciation of foreign languages

Time based games

Image and audio based learning

Lectio

Lectio is an educational app for dyslexic students. It helps students with

language learning related disabilities. The app helps in reading and

understanding the words easily. Just take a picture of the text, the words

recognized by the database will turn yellow. Tap on the yellow word and

the system will read it out loud. Holding the yellow button will show the

definition of the word.

Independent of the internet

Promotes independent learning

Effortless-no preloading of the documents

No expensive maintenance

Portable-anytime, anywhere learning

Read2Go

Read2Go is an eBook reader app helping people with sight disabilities.

The apps allow easy access to the Bookshare library. The books are

directly stored in the Read2Go bookshelf. The app saves the time of

downloading the book to the computer, then extracting the files.

Adjustable rate of audio

Browse, share and download books faster

Variety of choices of fonts, sizes, and colors

Multi-modally

Change the reading speed

Connect with Braille display

HAWKi

The free mobile app provides anytime, anywhere access to information

that is critical for the student experience at Illinois Tech. HAWKi will

put at your fingertips the ability to participate in classes, check grades,

see holds, get dining hall information, use geo-location to navigate the

campus, and so much more! HAWKi provides students with secure

access to the most important information you need with features like:

Access the Bookstore

Emergency security and safety services

Browse and search content in the Galvin Library

Browse, search and locate dining options for your campus

Receive mobile notification if a hold should happen and require

action

Access parking services

Access job opportunities

Access the free shuttle bus schedule

View the upcoming Academic Calendar

Search and get directions to all campus facilities using Google

Maps

Implementing technology in classrooms can transform the learning and

teaching experience. Educational app development companies like us are

helping institutes and universities globally with innovative mobile app

creation to deliver delightful experiences to students and educators. Is

there any beneficial app that I missed? Let me know if you have any

better apps for education.