Importance of online Education for Teaching and Learning

Importance of Online Education for Teaching and Learning

Online teaching typically refers to courses that are delivered completely online, meaning there are no physical or on-campus class sessions. Online Education provides professionals with the flexibility to improve and update their skill set while working simultaneously. This helps them in staying updated about the existing advancements and technologies. Online education serves to be a time saving and cost-effective procedure for any career. 

Today's students are more tied to technology than ever before—online learning takes place at home, on the bus, and even within the classroom. ... Online learning helps students by providing more opportunities for education, whether via apps, podcasts, or websites.

Online learning provides many channels through which students and instructors interact with each other, including email, online chat, and video conferences.

The drawback of online education is that there is a lack of willingness and desire to learn. Students are simply not motivated in online classes. 

Online teaching is challenging and setting boundaries is critical when managing students in the online classroom as well as controlling your own homework environment. ... Most of the time, the online student is simply fearful of not succeeding. 

Perhaps the most common challenge in an online degree program is that lack of face-to-face engagement of students with professors and other students.

Now the time has come to change the teaching and learning process. It is essential for all of us to think on various points to make effective online education.

The pandemic has significantly disrupted the higher education sector as well, The structure of schooling and learning, including teaching and assessment methodologies, was the first to be affected by these closures. Only a handful of private schools could adopt online teaching methods. Their low-income private and government school counterparts, on the other hand, have completely shut down for not having access to e-learning solutions.

Always traditional education is good. question is that is it possible to incorporate those things in online education. Active learning and participation are huge benefits of traditional education. During class, students can participate in real-time with teachers and classmates. This creates additional learning opportunities beyond the course content. Students can ask questions and get clarification on things they are uncertain of.

Technology has an important role, how and what technology should be used in terms of efficiency, availability to rural areas also. Government bodies at the national and state level should start to think about how infrastructure for colleges and universities should be developed to provide a quality education through online education.

One, immediate measures are essential to ensure continuity of learning in government schools and universities. Open-source digital learning solutions and Learning Management Software should be adopted so teachers can conduct teaching online. The DIKSHA platform, with reach across all states in India, can be further strengthened to ensure accessibility of learning to the students.

Online learning is NOT a library of video lectures and e-books that converts class-notes into PDFs. Creating high quality digitized learning content must be contextualized and ‘byte-sized’ to make learning interesting and engaging.

Education plays a vital role in the development of any nation. Therefore, higher education is to be the best in both quantity and quality. There has been a great increase in the number of Universities and Colleges in India. To check and assess the quality of these institutions, an autonomous and independent organization called The National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC) was established by the University Grants Commission (UGC) of India in 1994. Therefore again NAAC  assessment procedure should be changed if UGC or AICTE is going to implement online education. Certainly, it is not feasible at the school level. At the present number of unanswered questions are existing online education ???