Unveiling the next era in education - Online Schooling

Especially in the era of COVID, we all were locked in the house for a good part of our time. This adversely affected the schooling of children. Thanks to the technological advancement of our generation, we began our online education in India. The classes began happening in the numerous video calling applications, work became remote and online.

Though online schooling has numerous benefits, it also has its fair share of struggles, cons, and pitfalls. Even though we started widely using online schooling facilities when we were hit by the pandemic, online schooling commenced way back in the year 2005.

What is Online Schooling

Online schooling is when the schooling process happens online, via the aids of technology. This is especially true for students who are separated from their educator by any chance. During the pandemic time, online schooling and education became prevalent all over India.

Online Schooling in India

Online schools in India are getting up to speed. The socio-economic status of India makes it a bit difficult to set up a fully accredited and recognized online school here. As the government favors the socially weakened sectors in India, government-approved Online Schools are very few here. The lack of fully-facilitated online schools in India is because of the lack of adequate digital support for a larger part of the student body.
Online Schooling in the World
In the USA, 60% of their schools have started offering options to their students for online classes or offline ones. Some of their private and public schools are fully virtually operational with all the school’s facilities made available through online mediums.
Online vs Offline Schooling
As the Indian Online Education System is taking its baby steps into the world of full digitization, it must also be considered that traditional schools also have their share of benefits like more interactions, the joy of bus rides, and other simple happiness. Keeping all these in mind, let us look at some of the pros and cons of this type of education.
Benefits of Online Schooling

Flexibility
The biggest benefit of an online school is the flexibility of classes, timings, and other things. In an online school, we can fix the time, place, and space of a lesson which can have a positive impact on the absorption of the lesson in our minds.

Reduced costs
Online schooling has brought down the cost of schooling, making it affordable for everyone. With just a smartphone to access the classes, one can have education at one's fingertip.

Personalized education
One can have their lessons personalized according to their needs. And this can have a positive impact on the way children view their lessons and education as a whole.

Increased collaborations
Collaborations in the lessons are done easily when it is online. Collaborating for a project became much easier and friendlier with the internet to aid in it. And collaborations run fairly smoothly outlined with a near-perfect result too.

Cons of Online Schooling

Social Isolation
In an online setup for a classroom, even with 30 students in the class one tends to feel lonely with just the device in front of us. This can build up and end up as social isolation and anxiety. This is one of the biggest cons of Online Education in India.

Requires strong motivation
Online schooling needs discipline and self-motivational skills. In traditional schools, you have friends who would motivate you and also the school induces a kind of discipline with rigid timetables and timings. In online school, the concept of time has been skewed and this can lead to a lack of motivation in children which can affect their studies.

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