Online education and its future (Article)

        Article of ONLINE EDUCATION AND ITS FUTURE

   

     Is online education good to improve our knowledge? Is online education must for the upcoming generation?  What are the difficulties they may feel? I shall start this essay with questions and end with answer. Actually, we are in the new era, so the concept of traditional education has changed.  The world became very competitive.  So we should gain more knowledge to survive.  Online education gives platform for gaining knowledge.  The students can learn their interested topic and improve their skill, even though the subject is difficult.  Recently I read one article in that, “According to most recent survey, about 30 percentage of students in US are taking at least one distance course”.  This is possible only through online.

     First of all we should know about the online education and its history.  In 1800s, they used parcel post for the students who could not able to attend university campus.  In 1900s, communication technologies got improved and distance education took through radio waves.  In 1950s television entered i.e. visualizing picture into the world.  It leads to step more into the online education.  Online emerged in 1982 in western behavioural sciences institute in Jolla.  In 1989, the University of Phoenix began offering online education.  In 2000 only 8 percentage of students got into online education.  But now nearly 20 – 50 percentage of students got into online education.  In future it will be the only way to gain knowledge.  Online education defines the process of connecting learners with these remote resources.

     How it improves our knowledge? We all know that our brain capture the picture easily i.e. visually, so it need practical knowledge.  But our schools and colleges don’t give that much knowledge.  And they try to produce students with high marks. But 2 digit numbers i.e. marks won’t judge the talent of the students.  We should value their talents and innovation rather we value their marks.  It is important to say learning can’t control in between four walls.  In internet, they showing visually (directly or by animation) so our brain receives information quickly and we may appeal doubts. Albert Einstein said “Imagination is powerful than the knowledge”.  The students should visualize the subject. They should understand the subject. 

     You can get teach form anywhere in the world. We don’t want to sit in not interested classes.  We can take our interest topic in our own time and we can learn more with practical knowledge.  Online is a good platform for learning and also to teach.  It is very flexibility for student’s requirements and level of ability.

     Now a days, so many of the students gaining knowledge through online and even degrees.  In traditional education it is hard to focus on all students, and also for students it is hard to focus on all subjects (some they like and some of the subject they don’t like).  But through the online education, students can learn individually and the time management may reduce.  In online education we can get the time management.  For example, 1 hour class learning may reduce into 30 minutes or even 15 minutes. They will gain more knowledge in short time.  The unique one is we can learn what we want and what is interested for us.  These learning aides can be done on the student’s time. 

     We may also feel some drawbacks.  We can’t able to enjoy the class life.  We don’t have classroom friends.  Classroom is the only thing which consist of different types of students.  Being friendly without seeing status, caste, colour, size etc…  Those who studied in classroom, it will be the memorable one.  In online education, the new generation going to miss those golden days.   

     Online classes are more affordable than traditional education.  We can get scholarships through online, it may reduce or save money for learning purpose.  This will be good way for the students and teachers to achieve their needs and goals.  In some rural areas there is no facilities to study. They want to travel long distance to learn something. They may not have education back ground from their family. He or she may be a first graduate. For those students online education will be a good platform to learn and to get job opportunity.  The motto of this method is, students want to learn education and no matter how long they are located.  This method is very helpful for all age people.

      During lockdown, so many of the schools, colleges, universities tried online classes. They got into the habit of that process.  First, they hesitated to get start online classes but these days made them to get into online education.  They practised online education. Initially, they may feel difficulty but later on it will be the future.  Many surveys say that online education will be the effective one than the traditional one.  I hope we all may get answers for all of our questions towards online education and its future.