Online Education

Education is an important part of our life, it can also make our future and if it is not taken care of properly, it can also ruin our future. In today's world, online education plays a very important role in our life.

What is Online Education?

Online education is such a medium where teachers, students, and children can study from their homes through an internet connection, PC, or laptop instead of sitting in a classroom. It can be delivered in the form of lessons, animation, audio, video, and images. To take online education, you must have a proper internet connection along with pc, laptop, or smartphone. With this advanced technology, this learning approach has been simplified. Online education is also popular in institutions of higher learning.

Why is Online Education Necessary?

In the changing era, where everything is digital today, the education sector is no longer lagging behind in this regard. A pandemic such as Coronavirus (or Covid-19) has affected virtually every aspect of human life, including education. Therefore, there is a need to improve online education today, so that there should be no loss in the education of the students. In the initial period, everyone faced some difficulties. But later, both the students and the teacher got used to it.

The Indian government has launched the 'Bharat Padhe Online Campaign' to reduce education losses during the Covid-19 epidemic, emphasizing the growing importance of online education. Due to the increase in the demand for online education, many online learning platforms offer their services free of charge, including forums such as Talent Serve BYJU’S, Unacademy, Career will, CBSE Digital Education, etc.

Advantages of Online Education:

1.????With the help of online education, students can get a quality education at some of the best universities and teachers in the world.

2.????By choosing online education, the pressure on schools and colleges will be less and there will be more freedom for parents and children to study and teach in their own way.

3.????Students can take online classes/coaching according to their time and also teachers can record online courses so that students can watch again if a student does not understand some topic related to the subject during online classes.

4.????Online coaching classes are also available for competitive exams like CAT, GMAT, GRE, etc.

5.????By promoting online education, students will gain new knowledge.

6.????Online education is also profitable in nature because relying on the Internet will reduce the need for copies and books.

7.????Classes related to music, cooking, drawing, etc. are also being given online.

8.????Learning online saves time, as well as a greater diversity of information.

9.????With the help of online education, students can get a quality education at some of the best universities and teachers in the world.

Disadvantages of Online Education:

1.????Online education is related to a computer-based network, which requires a lot of expensive resources. So it is very difficult for some students to buy these resources.

2.????According to a new study, online education disrupts children's physical and mental health.

3.????The home environment will not be conducive to online learning, as students will be distracted by games, and social media (Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram, etc.,) at home, while schools and colleges have an organized learning environment.

4.????Practical work is compulsory in some subjects like physics, biology, etc.

5.????Apart from studying in school, there are many activities in which students can participate ex. Sports, dance, cultural activities, etc.

Conclusion:

It can be said that there are some challenges in online education that must be overcome. There are a lot of benefits of online education as per the situation today. We can say that it has helped to save the loss of many students’ studies at the time of the Covid 19 pandemic and lockdown.