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Understanding Online Education Benefits

Online education is a form of distance learning that allows students to take courses without attending traditional schools, offering both synchronous and asynchronous formats. While it provides benefits such as flexibility and lower costs, challenges include low enrollment and high dropout rates. The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the adoption of online learning, highlighting its potential for the future of education.

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Understanding Online Education Benefits

Online education is a form of distance learning that allows students to take courses without attending traditional schools, offering both synchronous and asynchronous formats. While it provides benefits such as flexibility and lower costs, challenges include low enrollment and high dropout rates. The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the adoption of online learning, highlighting its potential for the future of education.

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WHAT IS ONLINE EDUCATION:

Online education is a type of distance learning - taking


courses

without attending brick and mortar school or university

Online Interaction
student and over
teacher internet
Get
knowledg
e
TYPE
S

SYNCHRONOUS

Teacher and student have some direct simultaneous contact

Asynchronous

Instructor and learner do not meet in time or


space.
BENEFIT
S:

I. Flexibility in time.

Il. Variation in course module.

IlI. Lower cost.

IV. Comfortable learning


environment.

V. Continue in profession.
NEGATIVITI
ES

• Only few people take admission (approx.


1%-2%).

• High rate of students leaving the course.

• Don't know the aim.

• Low level of eagerness to participate.

• Less rules.
FUTURE

• 65% post-secondary institute providing college level online


courses.

• Large number of schools from western countries


participating.

• IIMB has tied up with edX platform.


BUSINESS
PROBABILITY
• Big companies are investing.

• Google Capital invest $40 million in online education giant Renaissance


Learning.

• Online education giant Khan academy's revenue as per 2012 data 15.795
million USD.

• User of ed (provider of MOOC) - more than 5 million.


CONCLUSIO
N

a) ICT and e-learning offers opportunity to


schools.

b)Helping to break the educational barrier.

c)Need a lot of improvement.

d) Need to create awareness for online


education.
Types of Distance learning

several types of Distance learning available today, including:

• Correspondence Courses: conducted through regular mail with little


interaction.

• Telecourses: where content is delivered via radio or television broadcast.

• CD-ROM Courses: where the student interacts with static computer content.

• Online Learning: Internet-based courses offered synchronously and/or


asynchronously.

• Mobile Learning: by means of devices such as cellular phones, PDAs and


digital audio players (iPods, MP3 players)
Rise in online education during Covid- 19

• The COVID-19 pandemic has changed education forever.

• The COVID-19 has resulted in schools shut all across the [Link],
over 1.2 billion children are out of the classroom.

• While countries are at different points in their COVID-19 infection rates,


worldwide there are currently more than 1.2 billion children in 186 countries
affected by school closures due to the pandemic.

• As a result, education has changed dramatically, with the distinctive rise of


e-learning, whereby teaching is undertaken remotely and on digital platforms.

Research suggests that online learning has been shown to increase


retention of information, and take less time, meaning the changes
coronavirus have caused might be here to stay.
AKHYA AMIT
TIWARI YADAV

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