How Do We Want To See Online Education In Future ?

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Online education – the amazing method that revolutionised the field of the education and brought in the beginning of the new age that the future has sent to us as a messenger telling about the instance of the great effect of science that is yet to come. Online education has already started its journey in the path of development intending to unite education with innovation. It is online education that can change education into a better and innovative education.

The UK is one of the countries of the world where online education has affected a lot of optimistic results. The country needs to embrace online education more in order to get more privileges that are yet to come.

But what is the future of online education? How is it planning to bring innovation? What are the features that online education will bring in the upcoming age? Let’s have a look:

A stable access to content

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It has been found that one of the chief features of online education is that you get to access the wide range of data or the educational content through online learning. The access towards the information is also offered to the learners personally. This access to the educational content and technology should be uninterrupted and stable. It will allow the learners to continuously upgrade their knowledge as well as being connected to education whenever and wherever they want. If you are a student pursuing online education from UK, then you are facilitated to get access to the information anytime and anywhere.

Open Educational Resources

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Producing more and more endeavours towards offering open educational resources for the educators and the learners will be a basic step for the online learning as it would enable the both the educators and teachers to have the full benefits of online education. The educational resources will try to develop almost every aspect and there is a direct correlation observed between quality and usage. An online university degree must have such facilities.

Adopt to modernise

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You enrolled for an online study UK and you don’t know how to adopt the educational resources. For making the online educational system a modernised one, the contents and the resources should be adopted. The educators should adopt it first in order to operate them better when it comes to teaching. The adoption of these educational resources is a better and healthy way for the bright future of online education. You have also got to adopt if you are continuing distance learning from UK.

The Bottom Line :Let’s work together

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In order to implement all these qualities for the betterment of the future online education, all of the teachers; the educators; the students need to work together. An important role by the World Education Summit for Education or WISE is played over here. A global gathering of the leaders are arranged by this summit for creating an international network so that the online education’s future can be secured by innovative technology. The online education will reach a new height and a dignified standard if tall of the professionals’ work together. They should keep in mind that it is the actually the future of them that they are securing and not of education.

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E-Learning enable Students With Critical Thinking Capability

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Learning becomes interesting if it enables the learners to explore the critical aspect of their psychology and ensures them to be a critical thinker rather than a dull memoriser. It supports the candidate in the professional field as it generates the decision-making power. The ability to think critically is a must for the corporate standards and the industries and e-learning successfully enables a learner with such powers of impartial judgement.

E-learning and critical approach

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Research was done; ways were sought to get critical thinking included as a dominant element in the e-learning methodology. In the past, the critical approach to e-learning was limited but the present e-learning systems have already started incorporating the critical appreciatory mode in e-learning. Wide research about it is also discussed.

There are various efficient ways by which critical approach can be implemented in e-learning and Hisham Al-Mubaid from the University Of Houston talks on it in his paper named A New Method for Promoting Critical Thinking in Online Education.

The view

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E-learning facility is available in classrooms as well as in the mode of online education. The critical approach can be implemented in both the cases. The methods are of two types: the individual component and the team-based component. The individual component delivers a more personalised environment and the team-best component generates an interactive method in the classrooms.

The individual component

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There are three initial steps in this stage: listing; evaluation and re-structure.

Listing

includes the systematic arrangement of the course materials and the online content that a learner himself or herself has to develop. It enables the learner to continue learning in his/ her own pace.

Evaluation

is the second step that fosters the critical thinking capability of the learners. It is more intrinsic than the first step as the learners themselves estimate education. It develops the learners’ sense of understanding.

Re-structure

is the third step that effectively helps to increase the intellectual power of the learners as they execute their ideas in their personal ways and reshape their base of learning.

The team-based component

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There are also three initial steps to this process. They are: listing; discussion and evaluation.

Listing

is same as the first step of the individual component, the only difference is it encourages listing in groups. The classmates are grouped and each group performs the task of making the list on the contents which e-learning offers them. It produces a collective realisation of education to them.

Discussion

is the second step which is one of the integral parts of interactive education. It helps the formation of critical appreciation as well as estimation through students’ discussion and debates.

Evaluation

is the third step that enables the judgement and meaningful estimation of the content. The difference of this step with the step of the individual component is that it is completely based on the second step that is the students’ discussion.

Think critically: Solve problems

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The critical thinking strengthens the meaning of the e-learning. In both the ways the learner is provided with the power of evaluation by himself/ herself. It allows the learners to take a look on the different aspects of education leading them to newer possibilities of flourishing critical thinking. What they learn in e-learning is to be implemented by them in the professional field. Critical thinking not only strengthens a learner from his/ her depth of understanding in his/ her own manner, but also enables them to critically estimate and solve the ‘critical’ problems in their profession.

The Verdict

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Online learning is never an easy task as it appears to a few. It requires contineous deligent effort and perseverance to achieve your goals as an online learner.

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