Discovering the fate of online learning

Fate of online learning is surely vivid. Online education is an evolving process that has been able to mark its significance in the recent times. In today’s highly competitive world each one desires to reach the pinnacle of success within a short span of time. Unlike a traditional college campus pursuing an online education enables you to study as per your own preference and choice.

Today, the distance education is getting more popular as compared to the regular one and the online education is becoming more famous than the distance one.

Time to Change Present Education System

“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” These are words of Nelson Mandela, which truly reflects the importance and the relevance of Quality Education System that the nation yarns for.  

Looking at the present scenario, where new challenges are faced every day, it has become necessary to prepare the students for a highly demanding environment. In order to confront these challenges one should first understand the intricacies that are related to the present education system and the problems faced by it.  The Education in republic of India is provided by both private and public sector, which gets all the funds from three levels ie. central, state and local.  It is a known fact that there has always been a huge gap between them, since the quality of education, the fee structure, infrastructure and the teachers or the instructors differ in both public and private schools. The ground reality of our education system is completely different then what we actually think about it. We all want to get best employment opportunities with pay in six figure, but have we ever realized the fundamental problems in our education system?  And what are the key factors that leave you lagging behind in this competitive market??  India has the second largest higher education network in the world.

The education system in India in a way only promotes textual knowledge rather than focusing in skill based educational module. This doesn’t develop any analytical skills in the students, which is needed to face the real world competition. Scoring 90 out of 100 is not the solution and judging the child based on the scores he/she has earned in the examination doesn’t make him/her intelligent. Hence, it is time to change our education system. There is no easy way out to bring such change. We need some strict policy or act to bring significant improvements to see India shine !!!!

How To Overcome The Weaknesses Of Online Learning

Weaknesses in online learning do arise in a natural scenario, and there are methods to overcome them. Online learning or e-learning is a platform that is spurred as a result of the Internet and its global accessibility through many personal computing devices including desktop, laptop, tablet, Smartphone, and the rest. Online courses provide unprecedented accessibility to quality learning, training, and educating people at any stage of their life. 

 

Some weakness are inherent in the system owing to its infancy in the e-mentoring methodology, ignorance of learners, and lack of wide-spread accessibility of the Internet in low strata, low socioeconomic zone, rural areas, and other backward community where there is no electricity, no computers, and no Internet, which can be easily overcome in the near future. Governments all over the world are taking utmost measures to provide these basic amenities to the people who have fewer privileges and need help and support to obtain basic education. These measures will thereby result in social upliftment, equality, and justice.

The threats that hinder the progress of online programs include unavailability of students, inaccessibility of online courses, no connectivity to the Internet, limited access time, and many more. Moreover, users of the online learning program must be a computer literate, the current technology must be cent-per-cent reliable, and students should be self-disciplined to study online. These concerns can be minimized by doing pedagogical research in teaching and learning, charging no or low cost for the Internet access for educational sites, providing computer literacy program throughout the world so that people can become self-reliant in studying by their own.