According to the Xdemy Eperts :

Digital learning is any instructional practice that effectively uses technology to strengthen a student’s learning experience. Digital learning encompasses a wide spectrum of tools and practices, including, among others, online and formative assessment; an increase in the focus and quality of teaching resources and time; online content and courses; applications of technology in the classroom and school building; adaptive software for students with special needs; learning platforms; participation in professional communities of practice; and access to high-level and challenging content and instruction.

In particular, blended learning occurs any time a student learns, at least in part, at a supervised brick-and-mortar location away from home and, at least in part, through online delivery with some element of student control over time, place, path, and/or pace.17 Digital learning enables new strategies and formats, such as online and blended learning and competency-based learning, which have the potential to contribute to deeper learning. Providing every student with the opportunities for deeper learning is not possible without a technology-enabled network of tools and strategies to customize and extend learning.

Technology helps teachers do more by creating new learning environments that leverage teacher talent and allow students to go deeper. It generates more personalization for students, and thus more motivation and persistence. “Educators, Technology and 21st Century Skills: Dispelling Five Myths” was based on a survey of more than 1,000 K-12 educators and school administrators in the United States. It found evidence that supports the connection between technology and deeper learning. Specifically, the authors concluded that: Frequent technology users place considerably more emphasis on developing students’ 21st century skills—specifically, skills in accountability, collaboration, communication, creativity, critical thinking, ethics, global awareness, innovation, leadership, problem solving, productivity and self-direction. Frequent users also have more positive perceptions about technology’s effects on student learning of these skills—and on student behaviors associated with these skills.18 Digital learning promotes deeper learning in three main ways: personalized skill building in preparation for deeper learning; schools and tools that foster deeper learning; and extended access and expanded options These three elements represent complementary theories of change, important lines of evidence and research, and three distinct rationales for investment.