Abstract:
The impact of 4th Industrial Revolution, where innovative technologies are on the demand and
fundamentally transforming the traditional ways of doing businesses. In this digital World, the
use of advance ICT technologies have been ever increasing, such as the smartphones, digital
device and smart applications. With increased access to these devices, our young generation
and leaners are more digitally connected than ever before. Today, the young children are
“Digital Native” who tend to outsource many cognitive tasking to these modern technologies.
Inthis study, two types of communication for distance learning are discussed -Broadcast Media
Technologies (one-to-many) and Communicative Media Technologies (many-to-many).
The work focuses on Synchronous Versus Asynchronous methods of communication. Further,
thestudy examines the usefulness of Digiskills’ (an initiative by the government of Pakistan
for Information Technology courses) procedure of communication and its possibilities of
addressing the same in tertiary education in Pakistan.
For the ease of access, affordability andfamiliarity with tools and software, this research has
conducted a survey with the help of Google forms in order to assess an availability of internet
connectivity, availability of devicesfrequency of using digital tools and access to email for
distance learning amongst Students. Study also addresses the OMO (Online merged Offline)
model which has been commonly utilized after COVID-19. Finally, the researcher proposes a
Hybrid Solution for distance education for tertiary Education in Pakistan and propose the
terminology “Hyochronous” which is the Hybrid form of synchronous and asynchronous
mode of distance education.
