Just imagine someone who is very far from a city and can take classes and learn lots of skills from outside of their city, state, or even country without travelling from their home. That is the actual future of education with technology.
Yes, it is possible that E-Learning or Online education has revolutionized the way of education.
By E-Learning or Online education, you can learn anything from anywhere with your comfort, language and can connect with multiple people from multiple areas.
In this blog, we will discuss this in detail.
What is E-Learning
E-learning or Online education is a Digital platform where education or coaching is delivered via the Internet and Digitally. You do not need to go to school or college, stay in hostels, rent or share rooms with others. No time bound, no travel.
It’s not only just taking classes or courses, anyone can share their knowledge, and skills as well. It’s an open platform for everyone.
People including Students and teachers can meet via online platforms or meeting platforms like Google Meet, MS Teams, and other applications/methods.
Advantage of E-Learning
Technology plays an important role in making E-Learning or Online education or teaching more flexible, accessible, and easy to understand.
Easily Accessible for Everyone:
E-Learning allows access from anywhere, anytime by anyone or everyone. There are no barriers like Geographical distance, age, travelling, etc. Student can access their course content or classes from their Smartphones, Laptops, tablets, or PCs. They just need an Internet connection.
Teacher also, who want to teach or take online classes, for them also it provides a platform where they share their skills and knowledge with the world.
Flexibility in Learning and Time Saving
E-Learning or Online education provides flexibility in terms of time, understanding, pace, and money. Student can choose time as per their availability, they can reach, listen to, or watch the study materials multiple times if they don’t understand something, they can go at per own speed and also E-learning allows you to pay as you want to learn.
E-Learning provides a platform to working professionals, Women, parents, or anyone who has a busy schedule. They can opt for the courses or classes at their convenience.
Diverse Learning Resources
In Traditional learning or offline learning, students need to carry heavy bags, books, and other study materials. Students can just access or share their content like Videos, E-Books, exams, tests, practices, or multimedia data from their Digital devices/gadgets anytime and multiple times.
Cost-Effective
Online coaching is more cost-effective as it eliminates extra expenses like Buying Books, bags, stationary, and especially Travelling costs and time. Sometimes it’s available free of cost on some social platforms.
Global Interaction or Connect with Everyone
It provides a platform where you can connect with people around the world. It gives you the wings to fly beyond your boundaries. Students cannot be limited to their areas, state, culture, or society. They can learn whatever they want.
The same applies to Teachers and coaches as well, they can reach out to very remote areas people as well.
Continuous Learning and Enhance the skills
In the traditional education system, people cannot go to school or college after a certain age due to multiple reasons. But in E-Learning there are no Age limits. Nobody going to stop you, taunt you and question you. Everyone can learn any or multiple skills whenever he wants at any age, location and time.
Platform to showcase your Skills and expertise
Sometimes, Institutes, coaching classes or Mentors are not available or not affordable, but via online learning, you can learn any skill.
Suppose, you are a good Dancer, but there is no good academy in your village, area or state or might it be very expensive. So due to these barriers, talents are never exposed, but in online classes, you can learn any dance form and also you can participate in multiple online competitions.
The same applies to coaches as well, it might be you have good talent but you do not have the required audience, students, platform, support or opportunities to showcase that, so E-Learning or Online education is the best way to show your talent.
Generate income source
There are multiple platforms like YouTube, Facebook etc where you can create your account/channel and start an educational to teaching channel. You can upload your educational videos and can-do promotions and advertisements reach out to the correct audience and earn money.
How to start Online Teaching / E-Learning
To start online coaching, teaching or classes, there are some setup, equipment and applications required to record, upload, share or take live classes.
Tools required to start online teaching
- Laptop
- Mic
- Pen Tab
- Stable Internet
- Good camera (if you are showing face or board)
Laptop or Computer
It is one of the major requirements. Without a computer or laptop, you cannot start teaching. Of course, you can learn via Mobile (without a laptop) but teaching is a bit difficult.
This is the media or medium to connect you with your audience or student to present your presentation, face, interact with people or teach any topic.
Laptop is always preferable for online teaching, as you can carry it or keep it anywhere.
You do not require a very expensive or advanced laptop or computer. You can go with a Basic Laptop configuration and buy online or offline as well.
It is very important that whatever you are speaking should be heard by listeners clearly and a good quality Microphone (Mic) is an important tool required to deliver Clear and Quality audio, Lecture, video or discussion to your audience and students.
During E-learning and online teaching, you need something to write and show to your students. Like in offline classes, teachers have a blackboard or whiteboard, pen paper and can explain easily on the laptop as well.
However, in online classes, it is not possible. Also, it is not possible you just present the slide in a presentation (PowerPoint), word or PDF document. You have to write, solve, and explain the question or your topic in detail.
To solve this issue, there is a tool called Pen Tab (Pen + tablet).
With the help of Pen Tab, you can write and explain anything.
Stable Internet
You need a stable and high-speed internet connection to avoid any delay or lag in your communication.
Best Practice to Start E-learning or Online Teaching
As we discussed above about tools required to start online teaching. Along with these tools, you should also be ready with the following things which are really important and necessary requirements:
- Select your Subject and topic as per your expertise
- Do proper research
- Prepare Quality and interactive content
- Connect with your students regularly
- Deliver content on time
- Keep yourself and your student updated
- Promote and advertise your business
How to deliver E-Learning
Once you have all set with Tools, agenda, subject or topic, we now have another question How can we deliver our content via E-learning platforms?
There are multiple ways or online Platforms to deliver Online content under the E-Learning method.
LMS- Learning Management System
A Learning Management System (LMS) is a software application which we can use to deliver online content. It is a platform where you can use your own LMS, buy other tools and share your content.
There are multiple Cloud-based LMS applications available that provide a ready-to-use solution that allows you to quickly create your courses, enrol users easily, and generate reports on learner progress and content access.
In LMS you can upload your Lecture Videos, E-Books, PDFs, Exam preparation documents and much more which will be accessible to all of your students.
YouTube
YouTube is a very large Social Platform to educate people or share your knowledge. Through YouTube, you can create quality videos and upload them on your channel. This is a free platform where you do not need to purchase any LMS and you can earn as well.
LinkedIn, Facebook & Social Media
LinkedIn and Facebook are other social platforms which are used globally for entertainment and professionally. You can connect with people over these platforms and can build your student base through live classes and webinars.
Is E-Learning good or bad?
Whether E-learning is good or bad depends on multiple factors, but majorly It’s a good option and platform to learn anything from anyone anywhere, It allows you to learn, and explore the sea of education without going to school. It’s like exploring the world without travelling.
Challenges in E-learning
On one side we have lots of benefits and advantages of e-learning, on the other hand, there are some challenges as well.
- Technology Barriers: Both teachers and students can have technology dependencies, like stable Internet, Speed, Internet connectivity issues, hardware or software issues, and electricity issues.
- Cost: Cost can be another challenge to buy equipment like laptops, Mobile and other tools and software.
- Lack of Social Interaction: In e-learning, people connect virtually and there are no face-to-face interactions and social interactions between students.
- Security and privacy concerns: E-learning or online platforms are may prone to security threats. During online teaching, sometimes you download from the App, log in with your emails, enter bank details for payments, show faces, and record voices and it can misuse and hard to your personal identities and sensitive information and confidential data.
Conclusion
E-learning or Online education is very effective in the current education system and in future, it will be a revolutionary change. It creates an online platform for everybody to learn, Teach and educate people. It has some advantages like Low cost, Availability for everyone, Flexibility, Scalability etc and disadvantages like Geographical constraints like Internet connection, Low speed, Electricity, buying Gadgets & tools and security issues. But in spite of all this Online education is popular and broadly adopted by society globally.
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