For many of us, it is still a bit challenging to bring all lessons into the online world. What about eye contact and non-verbal cues? What about face-to-face interaction and empathy? You are perfectly right to feel concerned about the lack of it because it’s harder to convey all these things just through the screen. However, you do communicate with your friends in messengers? You do DM them to share something new about your day and the funny meme you’ve recently seen? So, what would be wrong with DMing your homework to the teacher?
These concerns are there, and they have the right to be there. However, when creating a pro-con list, cons are so far behind the pros that you don’t really think about non-verbal cues and eye contacts any more. You only think about how to create a new feature that would replace or compensate for it. In no way can the online world entirely replace an offline one. Pursue it as an additional feature that makes learners’ lives easier, and that’s what we’ve found important on this topic.
1) Access to global knowledge — submitted. The world is full of geniuses who live in different parts of the planet. With the Internet, you get access to the best teachers from all the continents. Each of them will have a unique perspective on their subject. That’s some kind of global dispute in which you find your truth.
2) What is truth, and what is false? Unsupported facts, pseudo-science, and biased way of looking at the information — to avoid it, it’s necessary to always consider an alternative source of learning. With global education, you get an enormous variety of choices.
3) Communicate with native speakers. Global world = the need to communicate with foreigners to build a business, to find out the info, to share the experience. Although the English language has become international, it’s always a good idea to learn one more. Immersing into the language is better with a native speaker who may live in the other part of the world. Here’s to the Internet who made this problem solvable.
4) Tik-tok on the clock. It’s better to waste spare money than waste your time because you will earn more dollars doing your job. You will not earn more time, even if you are the youngest businessman on Earth. That’s what applies to the learners, as well. To attend classes in their city, they have to commute and waste time getting ready. With online lessons, they can study laying on their beds.
5) Availability 24/7. And no, it’s not about teachers, instructors, or students. It’s about the availability of the info. With online courses, you can watch and re-watch everything 3 times if needed. You can study after work, or when you get better (if you’re ill). That’s exactly the mundane obstacles learners have from time to time. That’s exactly what eLearning solves.
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