Advantages and Disadvantages of Online Education
How can we ensure normal learning at this special time? Recently, traditional teaching model must be impacted with the constant development of Internet that various new modes have appeared, and the most common and popular one is online learning. It is impossible to meet each other that online teaching is an essential way for teachers and students to have classes and communicate.But online classes have two sides for students. There are many advantages of online education such as it is resourcefulness that we are free to choose what we want to learn. While, it also has disadvantages. The most obvious shortcoming is the efficiency can’t be guaranteed as face-to-face teaching.
Nowadays many people prefer online education because it has a significant role in our daily life.Generally, its advantages can be seen as follows. Firstly, online education can provide different learners with more flexible and versatile ways of learning. As long as there is a network and a terminal, anyone can start any course from any chapter at any time and any place. Especially when one-time learning becomes arbitrarily repeatable learning, students with average perception, slower learning speed and weak foundation can use time for quality. Besides , the benefits of online educaiton go not only to youngsters at school age, but also to working adults who can finally realize the wish to learn a skill or a foreign language, because instead of finding much time for a class, they now have the option to use fragmented spare time for further learning. All in all, online education overcomes the main shortcomings of offline education, which is not limited by time, space, educated age and educational environment.
To some extent, learning in the background of network has cultivated students' interest in learning and enabled them to learn independently.Among the questions of "what are the advantages of online courses", 45.2% choose "developed and convenient online education", 29.6% choose "novel teaching mode", 20.1% choose "it is conducive to arousing teenagers' interest in learning", while "it is conducive to lifelong learning of learners" and "developing students' innovative thinking and personality development" account for 5 1%, which makes online classes popular with students. For example, the current children's English education institutions use online teaching to stimulate children's interest in learning. Vipkid will employ high-quality foreign teachers from North America to take 1-on-1 online video game teaching to improve children's interest in learning; Panda English is to let children learn English through different activities every week, and then let children choose their own homework to cultivate children's interest in learning English. Online English classroom is an innovative English teaching mode, which uses communication, imitation and competition to motivate children to learn English actively. There will be a lot of scenes and props switching in the video of online courses. Foreign teachers use simple and slow English as a tool or medium to explore knowledge in the whole process. This teaching concept overcomes the tedious traditional classroom and makes children develop their language ability in the learning process, which is more natural and easy.
Although more and more people choose online learning, there are still various disadvantages in online learning.First of all, learners study in the network background. Due to the enhancement of autonomy, it is often easy to subconsciously only pay attention to their psychological order during the learning process, and ignore the logical order of the discipline itself. Teachers are still not at ease and are not used to students' independent learning. They always worry about "can students grasp the key points themselves?", "Can they understand this problem?" And so on.Communicate and discuss, and independently explore research answers. So teachers often use traditional ideas to intervene in students' learning. Second, online resources are complicated, especially because there are many unhealthy websites. It is difficult to ensure that students are not affected by adverse resources, and some students may even indulge in it. Some online courses often do not have teacher guidance, and 100% rely on students to learn by themselves. Without proper guidance from teachers, students ’failure or ineffective learning may be exacerbated. The last is not conducive to the emotional communication between teachers and students. There is the possibility of emotional indifference and situational variation in network learning.
Generally speaking, we should take an objective attitude towards online education. There is no denying that everything has two sides, just like the network education, when it breaks the limitation of traditional education, brings us abundant resources, satisfies our psychology of seeking novelty, helps everyone who wants to learn knowledge, broadens their vision and cultivates all-round talents. But at the same time, we can't forget that for most people, learning itself is not an easy and happy thing. We need to calm down, sit down and systematically build a knowledge framework, which is a great challenge to our consciousness. Moreover, most of the online courses are recorded in advance and remain unchanged, which may not be conducive to extending our thinking.Therefore, to improve self-consciousness and be diligent in thinking, the benefits of online education will be greatly improved.