Advantages of Online Learning Over Classroom-Based Learning

chillibreeze writer — Kriti Sharma

Hark back 300 years. A cold, grey, gloomy day at a medieval school. A grim teacher enters, cane in one hand. He peers through his thick lenses at his students who are huddled in their seats. Now flash forward to a brightly lit and tastefully decorated study room in a city home. The child, peering at the computer screen with a smiley face in one corner, drop down menus and colourful hyper-links at the centre and a vista of information waiting to be explored! Now which one will you have? Professor Cane or Mr. Smiley face?

Though I respect my teachers and love them profoundly, I still strongly believe that a computer can replace a teacher. Let us see how.

We live in the 21st century and the age of a rapidly expanding information technology. A vast store house of information exists in cyberspace, just waiting to be accessed. From the absolute basics to the most advanced information; it’s all available at the click of a mouse!

A teacher teaches an entire class, a mixed bag of intelligent and not-so-bright students. Doubtless, the attention is divided and the results, indifferent. On the other hand, a computer can give individual attention to a student. A teacher may get subjective but a computer imparts knowledge objectively-with no biases and no prejudices.

A teacher is available for a limited period of time, during school hours. A computer is available 24x7!A teacher may not be freely accessible. A computer, on the other hand, can be approached in the dead of the night, on a train journey, a bus ride, an overseas flight, in the public park, in the canteen or virtually anywhere!

A computer allows you to go beyond your curriculum and with equal ease takes you back to the basics you’ve learnt earlier but conveniently forgotten! It can be quite interactive too-asking questions and providing answers. It can be quite graphic and its knowledge can be literally limitless.
A computer brings together the best attributes, analytical and teaching skills of all your best teachers. Hence, you can have the best of both worlds.

In the end, I’d like to conclude by quoting what an electronics wizard once said, “What man can do, a machine can do only better and with more discipline.”

 

 

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—About our writer: Kriti Sharma is a student of class IX. Her father is an army officer, who is currently stationed at Delhi. She has been writing articles since the age of 8.

 

 

 

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