Information technology in education is full of promising results when the whole education industry is shifting its base towards tech start-ups which will surely take a certain share of the traditional education system.
Technology in education reaches its highest peak with the combined advancement in Internet cost-effective penetrations in remote areas of almost every country and its easy access over smartphones as personal digital assistance.
Education with technology is online education where students in a class can interact with the teacher’s lectures while seated at home.
Why does online education is having an advantage over traditional education?
Online education gained momentum with work-from-home scenarios in offices where an employee can give his/her output over the internet without having to physically attend office premises whenever the employee is on leave.
This is equally logical when a student is unable to attend classes due to ill health and the loss of study is covered via online education. This was the ongoing facility in most of the offices and education systems in developed countries but with post COVID-19 crisis lockdown and social distancing made it a present norm.
This is a reason why online education is categorized as a full-fledged flexible instructional delivery system. Due to Corona’s rise in all the worldwide countries, the education system too has to follow WHO guidelines of social distancing which was not possible in any kind of learning that take place
Why online classes are better?
Also with the wide-scale advent of Google, smart kids now know a lot about computer technology of internet as an indispensable source of education.
Students are able to enrich their knowledge base online with easy access to profound information anytime and anyplace without the necessity of regular school classes and a library.
Online education also bypasses attendance formalities which earlier added to their additional discipline marks as the student is now saved from the stress that happened when often they reach school late in the morning due to traffic irregularities.
Online Learning Platforms
Online education saves their precious commuting time which was spent on the school bus or on transportation mediums to reach their schools. Overcoming major limitations of the usual traditional classroom-based education in schools, colleges, and universities which is heavily dependent on location, transportation, faculty accessibility, and commuting cost.
The online education system has evolved to a greater level now with the high-end software that can capture every essence of traditional classes in virtual classes having a dashboard for real-time attendance tracking, class hours, teacher allocation, subject lesson management, group discussion, virtual polling, social media platforms integrations, Whatsapp synchronization with parents and guardians.
PDF, MS Word, PPT, and Video-based customized lessons can be delivered to students in one to many forms where that can effectively be downloaded on students’ Smartphones for easy referrals given the 4G internet speed in India.
What kind of online classes are there? Online classes app
Google is the major player in online virtual classes with its robust applications and Microsoft too enrolled in various niche applications that can easily be deployed in schools and colleges for world-class holistic education delivery
Online education is not a hurdle in India with tech-savvy parents and smart kids all ready to adapt to the new normal of smart classes in Corona time.
According to various analysis reports, there are almost 50 crores of smartphone users in Pan India covering remote and urban households together so education over the phone is in phase with digital India endeavors of our Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi Ji.