Online education appears to be the fanciest term in the present time to students and the rest of the people. The Covid-19 outburst has compelled the students to sit back at home and take online classes. But can we make a gesture from here that India has a bright hope in the online education system for the coming decade? Well, here are a few valid points supporting and opposing the concept of online education in India with the substation.
Reasons that Favor online education in India
1. Best way to increase enrollment of students in classrooms
The online education system has seen a drastic change in increasing several students in classrooms. Earlier, people did not use to enroll their kids in school as they could not pay extra expenses like uniforms, quality lunchbox, transportation, etc. But online education has broken these bars, and now more students are taking classes from the online system.
2. No need to develop physical infrastructure for differently-abled for inclusive education
Online education is the only platform to help realize the dream of inclusive education in India. We all know that inclusive education demands a very well organized infrastructure, and it will take ages for India to develop an infrastructure friendly to differently-abled students. But online education system solves all these barriers quickly as students can attend their classes from their comfort zone.
3. Trilateral engagement of parents, teachers and students in the study
Ever since online education has come into existence, now parents are also taking a responsible role in their children’s education. This is the significant positive change that online education has gifted to us. The trilateral engagement of parents, teachers and students in education makes the education system more dynamic.
Opponents of the online education system in India
1. Poor infrastructure for conducting online classes
One of the significant blows that hinder online education in India is the poor infrastructure to conduct such classes. Many students who belong to the BPL category do not own any smartphones, and others have to wear them at the expense of internet connections. More study suffers due to significant power cuts that every area confront in India. There is no bright hope of getting this problem resolved in a coming couple of years, and thus, we cannot see a promising future for the online education system in India, at least not for the coming two decades.
2. Virtual classrooms are more or less appear informal to students
The students are not showing the kind of discipline in online or virtual classrooms as they used to do in physical classrooms. Sometimes parents start their class, and students subconsciously sleep in the bed by pausing the video. So there is no way to make students disciplined with virtual classrooms.
3. High cost of internet
The internet bill for taking online classes is very hefty, and an ordinary person cannot afford to cut this expense from his pocket every month. Those with more than one child have to pay double bills to ensure the study of both of the kids, which is again a difficult thing for poor parents.
4. No trained teachers to take online classes
India has a meagre ratio of healthy teachers who sound technically and can take online classes with high accuracy and perfection. As a result, the study suffers a lot for students, and they cannot make great doctors, teachers, and engineers in the future.
This is why the online education system is still floating and has no roots in settling in a country like India. But we cannot break our hope to realize this dream even in the future when our population will have all the resources to make their children enroll in online classes in the future.
