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There are hundred and thousands of students who think online learning is the tool that can help them to gain knowledge. That's why the number of e-learners is growing every year. Online IT diploma courses and MBA programmes are the most preferred among the e-learning courses. But there are many who still have no clue about online learning. In many places distance learning exist but have no online attached to it. Though, it's believed that sooner or later institutes having the postal system of distance learning will conjoin with e-learning. Although many have access to the internet and mobile devices yet they are unaware of the online education. Read on.
Strange about online education?
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IT is the career that offers bright career. Looking to enter into the same profession students from different nationalities enrol to online information technology courses because of its incredible benefits. But in the US, it seems many yet to know about it. The Pew Research Centre has done the survey on Personal Education and Technology with 3000 American adults. According to the report, 74 percent of the US learners termed them as Personal Learners and 36 percent coined them as Professionals Learners. The majority of the students preferred libraries, high schools, worship places ignoring the web. The report reflected that US learners were unknown to the idea of online learning including Massive Open Online Course (MOOC). It seemed that they are aloof to the concept of the MOOC and modern education i.e web learning. Here check at out some other similar other online courses that are also helping the students.
The digital gap
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It seems that there is the digital divide. Compare to the rich, people from low-income group are less known to the online education. So when from the stable background is taking his/her first step of learning IT skills with online IT diploma courses, students from poor financial background have zero access to web education.
According to one report author of Pew Research Centre's John Horrigan,
“It becomes a bit of a double whammy for less-educated Americans. They’re less attuned to seeking out educational opportunities than other segments [of the population], and less skilled at using new technologies that might help them overcome those gaps.”
Hence, to make sure that no digital divide persist we need to make sure everyone have equal access to technology to receive education via online. So IT career aspirants can take online information technology courses and prepare for the next level.
What next?
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All the stakeholders of the education including the government have to undertake measure so that digital inequality ends and online learning is made available to all. There should be awareness programme or workshop on online learning. Here, learners should be briefed regarding the merits of online education and scopes earned through it. Online education has already been termed as the future of learning. Hence, ignoring it would mean neglecting the future. So, put future of the learners at risk when they can make most from e-learning. On the other hand, learners also will have to make sure that they remain committed to the new form of learning rather bearing casual approach towards web learning.
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