ONLINE (DISTANCE) EDUCATION

Hello everyone after a long break.

I hope everyone is fine, safe and at home.

              I think 2020 started the year a little bit different, didn’t it? At least for my country, 2020 is different year. One of the big situations is Corona which also called Covid-19. I think, we can’t say why did Corona appear. Many reasons may happen, but this illness cause to stop almost every institution such as factories, shopping malls, universities, schools etc. Doctors have the most important task here. I hope nothing happens to any healthcare professional. 

             Besides all of things, education was stopped in this term. We don’t know how long it will take but universities ended their spring terms. Primary schools were announced to be closed for at least one more month. This mean is no more face to face education from now on. This is new thing for world, I guess. Of course, online education exists for years but taking courses online for so long is new thing, at least for my country. As a student, I started to take online education too. My first opinion was not bad because it was new thing for me too. It was exciting for me and my classmate. Online education has so many advantages on the other hand it has disadvantages too.

 

ADVANTAGES:

• The learner and teacher may geographically be located at different places. The learner is vitally in touch with the teacher.

• It has flexible environment and schedule. The learners are in their comfort zone.

• Online education requires more self-motivation and time-management skills. Online classes not only include math, English etc. but also requires self-motivation

• Online education’s costs are lower than face to face education. Most of education in online are free.

• There are many various online classes you can join whichever you want etc...

DISADVANTAGES:

• Not all students have their own discipline. They can open their account they may not join their classes efficiently.

• Building relationship with students will require more effort than face to face education. Some students feel more comfortable with their teachers. Because interaction between students and learners in face to face education is more realistic.

• Having too many distracting items is another problem. They have other devices phone, music players etc. They may go kitchen, bathroom wherever they want. Eating something, listening to music, chatting with friends are distracting things. Multitasking reduces the impact of the focused job.

• It can also cause some health problems such as poor vision, back pain, strain injures etc.

If we want to summarize the disadvantages and advantages of online education, we can say these.

Right now, our question may be; what teachers should do for effective online education? This week I am going to start giving online education too. What will I do or do you have a any suggestions for me?

You can check my previous posts about technological education programs. Next post, we may talk about that.

Thank you for your reading.

Until we meet, 

PLEASE STAY AT HOME FOR YOURSELF, YOUR LOVED AND OTHER PEOPLE.  #STAYHOME  #EVDEKAL 🏠🏡

See you in next post 😊💛👋