Online Education or Offline
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There are some courses you can't do online. Some science courses especially biological related courses can't be taken online. Even engineering courses need practice and physical presence to master it.
When I took my MBA program. We have online courses, and we meet with the lecturers and other fellow students once a month. I like this arrangement.
It would depend on the kind of education and who is opting for it. What's the purpose behind it? I personally feel that education till school and colleges should be offline. They are more effective as you learn a lot of other important skills with your peers other than the academics. It's needed for the social and emotional development.
Online education is basically for the people that the people that are constrained either by time or distance. Conventional education is still the best for full time students.
In Latin America and southern Europe, online mode is the best cause several reasons and the main ones are these three:
1)offline universities are only located in a few areas around the capitals, so it becomes pretty impossible to reach for students living in small towns and the countryside
2)workers students lose too much time to travel to reach the university and a lot of times they are forced to get rid of higher education because the timing of the tuition is the same as their employment
3)the cost, at least in the case of the Mercosur bigs, where online courses are very much cheaper than offline (in the case of private universities)
Unfortunately, our current government wants to close most online university courses and the closure will hinder the only possibility to access to the university for many students whose families are poor.
1)offline universities are only located in a few areas around the capitals, so it becomes pretty impossible to reach for students living in small towns and the countryside
2)workers students lose too much time to travel to reach the university and a lot of times they are forced to get rid of higher education because the timing of the tuition is the same as their employment
3)the cost, at least in the case of the Mercosur bigs, where online courses are very much cheaper than offline (in the case of private universities)
Unfortunately, our current government wants to close most online university courses and the closure will hinder the only possibility to access to the university for many students whose families are poor.
I am an educator for special needs children and adults. For us, the online mode is not much fruitful. I struggled with it during the Covid times. I need to do attention improving activities, activities for focus and many movement abd art based learning. The curriculum also has to be tailored according to individual child's need. It's not effective in online mode and can be a bit frustrating on both ends. So, during Covid, we ended up taking classes for parents and caregivers and give them weekly plan through video, tutorials and work sheets.
When I am the teacher, I prefer offline education as I enjoy the active participation in the physical classroom. There is so much more learning than just the textbook.
Now as a professional, I have joined an online course from June and we have classes every Sunday morning through Zoom. It's convenient for me and I avoid commutation. This course is well planned and conducted live with a very interactive group. We are all adult professionals from across the globe. Being an online platform, it's possible to bring people from 13 countries in the same class at same time. That's a great advantage of online classes.
Now as a professional, I have joined an online course from June and we have classes every Sunday morning through Zoom. It's convenient for me and I avoid commutation. This course is well planned and conducted live with a very interactive group. We are all adult professionals from across the globe. Being an online platform, it's possible to bring people from 13 countries in the same class at same time. That's a great advantage of online classes.
I prefer offline education because it allows me to concentrate on my studies better. Despite facing many challenges, I managed to complete college.
