With the moving technology, people have shifted and moved forward to technical support and life management tasks. After the COVID wave, not only companies and organizations, but even educational sites have provided support for online education to students. Online classes, study materials, and career support or directions, all are on the online track now.
But, have you ever thought about what problems are faced by students along with the advantages to learn it through the online sites? Let us know about the advantages and disadvantages of online learning portals and the changes.
The Offline Learning Portal
Offline learning platforms, well not the platforms but the real-life education places where students get the live learning and experience about the course and things. Theoretical classes, practical classes, and exam sessions, they are more effective when done offline and live in front of teachers and guides.
Knowing about the advantages of offline learning platforms can be easily understood through the points that make understanding more easy. Some of these basic points are the –
- Live theoretical classes with the exact doubt clearance in classes.
- Learning about the topics and things in more detail than the online classes.
- No distraction can cause discontinuity in studies.
- Yes, not the forgettable point, No cheating during exams in the presence of teachers and professors.
Offline platforms can help with many things, but knowing about online platforms, their advantages and disadvantages can be worth it.
Online Learning Platforms
The online learning portals and platforms are more easy and convenient for students to learn from home, to grab knowledge in a comfortable zone. Yes, students do prefer today the method of online classes and with that it makes it easy for them to attend classes from anywhere and at any time. The convenience and support from technical and online platforms are more worth in comparison to time.
Online learning platforms for education can involve a number of sites and social sites like PW, Akash Institue, and Allen Institue, they all provide online and offline classes with support to students. And social media platforms like Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, and others provide the details and sources for online learning classes.
Online learning platforms come with a number of advantages, but along with that, they do have some disadvantages when put together in comparison with traditional classes. Let us see the comparison section to make things clear about the problems faced by students while switching.
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Traditional And Online Learning
We have here learned about online learning platforms and offline learning places or sources and yes along with that we have come through the benefits of them. Now let us see and know about the problems faced when students switch from traditional to online learning –
- Network Stability – The neglected term by students when they easily say yes to the online learning method. During the online learning process, many students have to face network problems, either the slow network speed or the sometimes not a single network. For the traditional classes, there is no use of the network, and with this classes are attended easily.
- Lack Of Focus – Well, when using online platforms, fingers do go towards the social media scrolling platforms to make the mind go into the resting phase. Social media is the source of rest for many students with causes a lack of focus in students and lowers the continuity of learning. The surrounding causes the change in behavior and with the traditional classes, students get into the vibe of proper learning and attention.
- Change in Communication Skills – Students find it easy to communicate in live classes and network makes it tough for students to ask or communicate clearly, which obviously creates an embarrassing point for many students. While during the live traditional classes, students find it easy to communicate with teachers. And yes, a better communication format improves communication skills.
- Slow Progress in Preparation – When students face a variety of problems during live online classes, it becomes tough for them the learn progress and grab knowledge. While in traditional classes, they get the chance to face the exact and right career direction for the future.
- Comfort Zone – The comfort zone causes a negative effect on the student’s mind while learning and in live online classes, the amount of comfort zone is much more negatively effected.
In short, the more easy, communicative, and understanding classes are, the more it is easy to understand things.
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Support By Government For Online Education
To bring a change in students’ careers and make an improvement, the government has played a well and supportive role for students with education. Not only this, they have come out with plans and initiatives for the students who are not financially strong and come from a poor family but still aim for the best future.
The initiatives and plans that the government came for students are like –
- VidyaDaan
- DIKSHA
- PRAGYATA
- Digital Saksharta Abhiyaan (Literacy Mission)
The government has major upcoming plans in the future for students to help them with their education, learning, and career while facing distractions, financial problems, and lack of support.
Conclusion
In conclusion, the selection between traditional classes and online classes is as per the situation faced by students. Students with a distance and lack of travel financial support must go for online learning methods, while students with a lack of communication and knowledge should choose the traditional platforms.
