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Online Education

In the current world, technology has advanced, and many lives are being revolutionized. In education, different amounts of exciting and modern opportunities emerge. In these opportunities, teaching through the internet has acquired a lot of popularity. To begin with, online education is the type of education services offered through online platforms. Online training has made it possible for various students to engage in learning and thereby have access to an unlimited number of quality accredited programs. The rising population of students enrolling for online classes is increasing, especially at this pandemic period, where students are not attending classes physically. The increasing popularity of students taking online courses has increased due to several factors going to be discussed below.

To begin with, the first factor increasing the number of students taking online classes is the flexibility that comes with online learning. Students can have access to educational materials regardless of the geographical location of a student. All students engaging in online studies need to have is a stable internet connection and a device used for logging into the internet. Secondly, online education has lower costs than physical learning, especially where students need to travel to their places in schools. Costs lowered to include accommodation costs, travel costs, among other inclusive costs. Currently, affordable internet services have been developed by various networks making online populations achieve increased popularity.

Students have also embraced online classes because of the free model of communication, especially to shy students. Some students tend to be shy in a physical class setting, but in online courses, they can freely communicate similarly. Some students fail to concentrate on the discussed topic in class, and thereby, the students become ignorant of the topic being discussed. Other peers might laugh at some students in the class for particular reasons, thus making them feel shy, but in online courses, the students can become more active because there is no bullying from other students.

Online learning has also provided students to exercise time management and develop motivation. Students taking online classes are not reminded by the instructors or tutors to submit assignments and assessments compared to the actual reminding done by the tutors in class. In this case, students get to develop self-management, thereby improving the skills associated with self-management. Students also get to develop new technical and critical-thinking skills, thus making the students are competent for job positions, especially those that require the use of the internet. An excellent example of a skill acquired by students who take online classes is soft skills. Similarly, students get to change their mindset about most issues, and thereby, students develop a new global perspective (Hong kong, 2018).

As online education takes the world by storm, it is essential for students, tutors, and all stakeholders in the education sector to embrace online learning fully, especially with this pandemic period, where most learning is conducted through an online forum. In general, online learning provides students more options and thereby, raising the levels of performance by the students taking online classes. The students found in remote places can also benefit from online courses having n access to the fully accredited courses found on the internet. The effectiveness of online learning varies from one student to the other. Students should take online learning with a lot of care and seriousness.

References Hong kong. Huda, M., Maseleno, A., Atmotiyoso, P., Siregar, M., Ahmad, R., Jasmi, K., & Muhamad, N. (2018). Big data were emerging technology: insights into the innovative environment for online learning resources. International Journal of Emerging Technologies in Learning (iJET), 13(1), 23-36.