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We
are living in an era, which possesses all kind of conveniences, in
terms of time, technology and even education. Previously the
educational course, which seemed to be impossible to achieve due to
the lack of time, money and due to the adequacy of personal and
professional responsibilities, today, with the graduation of time and
technology, that academic degree can be attained easily. Thanks to
the radically evolved online learning, today a four years long
programme does take only 2 years.
The
E-learning As The Replacement Of Traditional Education
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There
was a time when a classroom was defined by the presence of
blackboard, chalk, benches, and a cohort of students, listening to
the professor's lectures. But the picture in recent time has
completely been veered.
A study by The National Center for Educational Statistics (NCES)
shows that, 32 percent undergraduate students prefer to pursue their
study while maintaining their full time job. All a modern age student
seeks is an accessible, flexible, innovative and job-oriented
education programme.
Here
lies the secret, why the majority of undergraduate learners are
inclined towards the ventures of online education. The e-learning
programmes not only welcome students into a world of education
without boundaries, but they also bestow an abundance of aspects that
make students seek online graduation degrees.
- Online education programmes minimize the complications and limitations of time & place.
- For those, who already started to go ahead with their professional careers, online graduation courses make the resources and technologies affordable and approachable.
- This breakthrough in education allows people from all over the world to acquire not only a degree but also excellence.
However,
some contradictory opinions are there to challenge the online
learning models, stating that, there will remain a need for
traditional college education as it provides students with a plenty
of important benefits like students-teacher interaction.
The
Impact Of MOOCs
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Since
their advent in 2011, MOOCs have been creating an immense impact on
academic world, becoming a genre of their own. The absence of tuition
fees, flexible courses and a without boundary study system have
increased the number of students per course. Today MOOCs are hosted
by many eminent universities around the world , such as Harvard, MIT,
Stanford and so on.
- HarvardX & edX
One
of the prominent platforms, that have partnered with MOOCs, is edX
and HarvardX is one of the 29 institutions, whose contents appear on
edX. In spite of the its unsteady scale, edx's software, Open Response Assessment (ORA), provides about 2.5 million students with grades and
contents. After being skilled and equipped about the ideas that
usually come from students , ORA can provide with feedback to
students' questions. Commenting on edX and ORA, Piotr
Mitros, edX’s chief scientist, states, “ If you asked me, ‘Do
you want a school experience where every single piece of text is
graded by machine?’ I’d say, ‘That’s a straw-man. Nobody is
proposing that.”
To
Conclude
A
letter, published in The Chronicle Of Higher Education, witnessed the
view of the philosophy faculty of San Jose State University that
described the MOOC as a “serious compromise of quality of
education”. Their fear was that MOOC will soon replace
flesh-and-blood teachers and the traditional classroom will go into
extinction soon. This letter prominently conveys that MOOC
renders a huge access and flexibility of online learning to the
people from every genre.
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