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Education, Science and Technology, Skill Develpment

2022: Why are people switching to digital schools?

– Sonia Sharma

We live in the postmodern digital age. Most of us get every information at the speed of light with a simple tap of buttons. People can’t even wait for a website to load after 3 seconds. Any longer than that, we just close the link and move on to a faster website! With that, education is at our fingertips and everyone around the world is embracing the digital education system. COVID and extreme climates have opened new possibilities for students and institutes. They find it way more comforting and fruitful to indulge in digital schools, online coaching, and distance learning degrees. But more than comfort, online learning is a blessing in disguise. There is more to it than you know right now.

Here are a couple of reasons why digital schools are the next big thing for students! You would be surprised to know!

  • Grow skilled and brighter

When children are tech-smart, they develop multiple skill-sets. From self-learning to practice and technology advancement, everything leads to their future growth- personal and professional. They can even manage, plan and organize things smartly and swiftly! Most things are soon going to shift completely online.

  • Learn self-development

In a digital education system, students learn discipline but in a very fun way! They become more active, fearless and curious in an online class. Often, students find ways to interact with their classmates and teachers without facing the fear of face-to-face interaction. Eventually, the fear vanishes, and children can easily communicate offline within a group, out in the world, and exchange knowledge. Students do their own research to complete the tasks and view the calendars or notifications to submit them on time.

  • Rich, easier and fun curriculum

Conventional black, white, and green boards are no longer the only medium of teaching. There is a lot of interesting and fun content prepared and used in a digital school. Learners can save digital assets, like notes, class recordings, drafts, links, presentations, e-books, and videos! Online quiz and answer gardens are one of the most engaging and entertaining activities in digital schools.

  • Authentic experience

Every activity happening in the school is digitally stored, including the classrooms. Students, teachers and parents can always verify and re-visit to clarify the facts. Students don’t have to take leave each time they fall in the football ground. Your kid can sit in his/her bed or study table, drink a cup of warm milk and continue attending school without missing a class. Even if they miss a class, they can always log in to access the class later.

  • Career-oriented education

With this online shift, digital education systems focus on providing technology-based skill sets and career-focused education. They help to brush up the interpersonal and professional skills on a global level. From language learning apps to software development training, students develop their skills earlier than conventional methods. In an offline school, they may only get one or two days in a month to visit the computer lab for a hands-on experience.

  • Road to savings and sustainable living

Digital schools save a lot of time, fuel and effort that we waste on uniforms, transport, cooking, buying books and stationery. Thousands of bucks are saved from your pockets and significant air pollution is avoided.

  • Parents are updated

The digital education system is a blessing for parents as well. There is no need to worry about your child’s progress. To check if your child is doing well in school, you can always communicate with the staff and log onto the parents’ portal. You can exchange advice and information via video calls with the teachers. You can always view their progress reports and grades in your portal.

Isn’t this a wonderful promising venture? Reduced chances of boredom and mischief, increased student development and global opportunities at your fingertips! A revolution like this in the education system was long due.

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E-learning: A boon or bane?

E-learning, which literally means, ‘electronic’ learning has received a sudden market-boost since the coronavirus outbreak. Digitalisation has been ongoing for quite some time, but the pandemic seems to have heralded it.

The digital coaching institutes which were earlier restricted to a few brand names, have now grown into a vast network. Many regular educational institutions have switched to e-learning temporarily. But  is online learning reliable as a permanent source of knowledge? Are we ready to modernise our system, or is e-learning not a substitute for traditional classrooms? 

Let’s find out. 

Schools offer twin development commitment: Academic and Characteristic. While e-learning modifies the pedagogy and makes learning more visual and digitally enabled, the students somehow miss out on social interactions and collaborative activities. It doesn’t seem to be very convincing on the characteristic development front of a student. Yet, it has an edge over traditional classrooms. How?

Let’s break this down into boons and banes of online learning.

Boons

  • Anything you need to learn is a search away- 

The beauty of digital learning is that anyone can learn anything,  at any place. There are no boundaries or restrictions. Every curiosity of yours has an answer. 

  • Less resource input and economically feasible –

For online learning, a physical set up of a classroom is not required. This makes the platform open for any teacher or even an ordinary person who wishes to teach. With less input cost, the cost of education ultimately lowers. 

  • Certificate and skill courses for better employment opportunities- 

Digitally you can pursue any course of your interest at any time, regardless of your age. When qualifications become a barrier in your professional life, you can always have a chance to enhance them digitally, even when it’s not possible physically.

  • Flexible study timings-

Flexible timings make e-learning accessible for everyone according to their routine, which ensures seamless learning.

  • Real-time interactive classes-

Live classes assure a healthy interaction between the tutor and the learner. Any query or confusion could be put up by the student without any embarrassment or fear.

  • Reduced school crimes-

Crimes we often hear about like sexual harassment, physical harassment, bullying, body shaming by seniors, teachers or classmates would be reduced to their minimal. 

With no physical interaction, it would be almost impossible for these crimes to emerge if the student has the right cyber knowledge.

Banes

  • Social ineffectiveness – When classrooms enter a room and are confined to a mobile screen, the student doesn’t get to interact with anyone physically. Gradually when they move out, they’d realise how the world is more nerve racking than their bedrooms. Social infectiveness would be a major impediment in not only their professional life but also in regular living. 
  • Unskilled scholars- As weird as it sounds,  if we enforce a digital system permanently, we’d soon be producing dumb-scholars, with no team working skills, extra curricular abilities, patience and communication skills. That would be like hatching a scholar chick out of his/her house who is in fact a grown up chicken and needs to live like one.
  • Unpunctuality and lethargy-  With everything served in their rooms and no one to keep a surveillance on, the learners would be rather lethargic and slothful. Their work would be left incomplete and if they do it, it would be done at the eleventh hour. They’d lose the value of knowledge if everything is readily available.
Research Paper

E-Learning is boon or bane?

“We need to bring learning to people instead of people to learning” By- Elliot Masie

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E-Learning is a way of learning through the internet or electronic media. This provides opportunities to access education outside of a traditional classroom. In this, learning is done completely online.

The education seekers who are not able to attend classes in the Universities due to some reasons, like, they live in remote areas, they don’t have enough money or lack of time. E-Learning has removed this barrier and has made learning available for everyone, anytime and anywhere. It seems to be like a walk in the park as it is easy to access, easy to use, and, most importantly, it makes things elucidate.

It is said that ‘For learning, there is no age bar’ but, people of the old age group hesitate in going to schools or colleges because they think everyone will castigate them, but, E-Leaning has no age limit of learners, people of every age group are welcomed and provided all the learning resources and no one is going to humiliate or judge them there. 

Electronic learning is good for teachers as well, not every person who likes to teach become a teacher, but online education provided them with a chance to fulfill their dream and aspiration. For this, they do not require any infrastructure to teach students. All they need to do is just start teaching online, and achieve what they want.

Sitting in a class at a single place for so long makes learning tiresome and boring, studying online has no time limit or time barrier. You can learn and study anywhere at any time.

‘A coin has 2 sides’ this means that there are different ways of looking at or dealing with the same. 

Online learning requires smartphones, computers, or laptops which cannot be afforded by everyone. Students, who are arduous, and want to study and gain knowledge but, are not financially sound, can’t get benefits from this opportunity. Even if somehow they manage to buy electronic gadgets, but, are not able to buy internet packages regularly as internet packages now days are so costly.

Learning is something that requires interaction, questioning, and answering between a teacher and a student, but, sometimes it is not possible in live lectures and videoconferencing. Interaction is mandatory while learning, as queries clear the doubts.

To add to it, the health issue is a major problem faced by learners who attend online classes for more than 4-5 hours. This causes harm to their eyes, and sometimes make them peevish too.

The E-Learning industry is expanding day by day, and, it is tremendously growing further with better accessibility of learning tools. But, it has to be brushed up as it is found that e-Learners are not good communicators because they are not involved in any conversation while studying. Moreover, online instructors focus more on theory rather than practicals.

Summing it up with these line ‘E-Learning can’t be declared as a boon or a bane, everyone has their  perspective towards the new learning system, if one finds it suitable they’d surely make it a boon for them!