5 Major Advantages and Disadvantage of Online Education in India 2022

5 Major Advantages and Disadvantage of Online Education in India 2022

Education is birth right of every person and their is no age limit for Learning. Learning is a lifelong process and key to success ,for career oriented individual who want to excel in both personal and professional life. Our Parents tell us stories of how they use to walk miles to go to school and some can't afford due to some reason. But now time is changing very fast,now a person can learn and get educate himself by sitting at home. People can learn about any subject online at anytime,anywhere at ease. But every coin has two sides,so in this article we will learn about 5 Major Advantages and Disadvantage of Online Education or Learning in India in 2022.

5 Major Advantages of Online Educations 

1. Convenience 

First major advantages of Online Education is Convenience factor. Traveling has been major burdens for students. If they want to learn from good school or college then they have to travel for kilometres to reach their and coming back home after classes puts lot of toll on students. So with online classes ,now student can sit in their home with comfortable outfit on their study chair and can learn any topic they want to. They have to just search the video regarding the topic and start learning,even while traveling in Bus or Train. Only thing they need is good internet connection and device.

2. Cost Effective

Another major advantages of Online Learning is that large amount money will be saved due to online class. Online classes save campus fee, less tution fee and student can save money as traveling to offline institute will not be required. So cost of Books and money on lunch will be saved due to Online Education. In this way burdens of finance will be reduced on parents.

3. Flexible 

Another good aspect of Online Education is not only it saves many hours of students by not traveling to the school or college to attend classes,but also give freedom to the students to select at which time they want to study,when they want to attend online classes and they can also select which course they want to study. Addition to that they can also take part in other online course simultaneously to improve their skills. So online Education provide great flexibility to the aspirant to learn and schedule their classes as per their convenience.

4. Interaction

Some people can argue that tradition way of learning in Offline class can be best for students. But cannot be sometime true, usually in class room around 30-40 student sits and also some school make over 100 student to sit in single class room. In such cases student sitting on back benches don't understand what the teacher is teaching them. Such student tend to fails in exams and effects their overall education career. So now in online education student can interact with teacher one on one as they sit on their personal device and can ask doubt anytime, and will help them to understand topic in betterway. 

Some shy student who are afraid to ask doubt in front of whole class can easily ask doubt in private chat with teacher during online class. Also teacher can provide interactive questions in online class were student can answer without hesitate of being humiliated.

5. Best for Working Personnel

Online Education has helped many people who can't afford to leave their job due to financial difficulties or some other reason. Such people can pursue their dream by Learning course in online classes after their work or office time. In this way they can add up additional skillset and will help them building their career.

Some other advantages of Online Education are no age limits for learning. Anyone can learn anyone course or skills by joining online classes from their comfort of their home and can horn their skills.

Students can get global knowledge from various facilities or lecture working in prestigious Institute by sitting in home and expand their knowledge.

5 Major Disadvantages of Online Education 

Everyone coin has two faces,if something has advantages then definitely it will have disadvantage as well without doubt. Now will discuss about the disadvantages of Online Education in India.

1. Lack of Attention

Student have very fragile mind,they tend to lose attention very easily. If the teaching become monotonous and uninteresting then student will lose their focus and will engage in some other work during online class.As teacher don't have that much command or authority while teaching from home  ,so teacher became helpless as student fail to listen them. These online teaching platform should work on teaching methods and should try to improve by making it interesting by providing activities time to time in order to keep interest of students intact.

2. Training for Teachers/ Instructors 

Online classes requires initial training to the teacher or instructors so that they can keep up with new technological change. Teacher and Instructors usually face many problems while teaching students online. So proper training is important to these staff or else this will be major loss to both teaching platform and students. Half knowledged or untrained staff cannot teach student properly and can't clear their doubt,which in result will lead to student's loss.

To address this issue training of teacher and Instructors should be done thoroughly so that student can get full knowledge from these online classes.

3. Technical Difficulty 

Another major disadvantage of Online Education is these online teaching platform frequently face technical difficulties such as poor audio,video and connection problem. Sometime student has to wait for hours to get connected with online class due to poor connection, internet issue and face problem in listening to the lecture. 

This will hampers student studies and parents usually complain that because of these problems their kids have to wait for hours for class to start ,wasting both students and parent's precious time.

4. Socialization or Isolation 

In offline classes student not only learn by attending classes but they meet new people,make friends by interacting with them thus getting life lessons such as unity, leadership etc.

In online education, as student don't get to meet with people ,then they can often feel isolated and this can sometime have adverse affect on their mind.

5. Screen Time

Nowadays most of us spend our time infront of the screen . Online Education sadly add more to this and just students has to sit in front of screen till the class get over. In online classes the extent of classes can varies,so screen time can varies with attending classes along with assignment to be completed thus making hazardous to student which can have many affect on Human Brain ,eyes and body prosture. Students also complain of headache as they continuously sit in front of the screen. 

Some other disadvantages of Online Education in India are

Student faces many distractions during online education such as noisy environment in home, family members ask for help. Student can get distracted due to Social Media and other entertainment apps.

Online Learning need self and active learning , they need to play attention during class or else they will they will not understand concepts and online education is time consuming sometime.

Student face internet issue during online classes and they also go through various health and mental issue.

Conclusion

Education is very important aspect of every person's life. If he/ she want to get success in life then education is must. Every mode of Education has advantages and disadvantage, so it upto the people who prefer which mode of education. 

When we discuss about whether online education is better or not then it depends on necessity of that person. If a person can go to offline classes gain knowledge then he should go freely and similarly if a person want to learn through online mode then it is his wish and can join without any problem.