Online Learning Is A New Concept To Many US Learners Who Prefer To Another Learning Platform

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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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Survey On Online Learning Revealing Interesting Findings

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Once many thought the concept of online learning will gradually fade out and only traditional education will exist. Proving its critics wrong, e-learning has not only survived but has become the tool for knowledge. In past five years e-learning has significantly grown. Presently millions of students have engaged in online distance learning courses. Apart from the young learners, even the adult learners are preferring e-learning courses. There are several aspects of online education that have significantly contributed to its growth. Ranging from flexibility to quality and cost-effectiveness have made online a platform where students from a different socio-economic background, gender and age engage in crucial learning. The growth of e-learning can also be traced in reports and surveys. Read on.

Key findings

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The 2015 online learning survey of Babson Survey Research Group has revealed some crucial data, showing the trend towards online learning. It was part of 13th and final report card of the checking US online education. The survey was conducted in association with Online Learning Consortium (OLC), StudyPortals, Pearson and Tyton Partners. Further data was collected from the National Centre for Education statistics. The findings are:

At least one online course was taken by one among four students. The figure stood at 5828826 in 2015 which is 217275 up from 2014. Students taking at online distance learning on year to year basis has gone up by 3.9% in 2015. in the year 2014, the figure was 3.7%. Undergraduate students comprising 72.7% and 38.7% whole level of graduate learners preferred public institutes. In 2014 5.8 million students took online course learning. Students comprising 2.85 million engaged to the whole, of course, learning via online whereas 2.97 million took the portion of learning through e-learning.

Senior vice president of Pearson Todd Hitchcock was happy with the growth of online learning. He said,

“While enrolments in higher education institutions decreased overall, enrolments in online programs continued to increase”.

Growth and fall

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According to the Babson research report the student's registration with private for profit institutions has dipped with 2.8%. On the other side preference among students for private non profit education institutes have increased to 11.3%. Director of Policy & Analysis at Wireless Communications Engineering Technologies (WCET), Russell Poulin says,

“Between 2012 and 2014, students taking all of their courses at a distance grew by 33 percent for non-profits. They were only a few hundred students away from passing the for-profit sector for having the second most number of enrolments. Public colleges still lead the way, by far”.

The report points out at another significant development. According to the survey, 29.1% chief academic officers said the essence and credibility of online learning have been realised by their faculties. The scenario, however, is different in the institutes with positive registration for online education. There are 60.1% of institutes where 10,000 plus students registration for online learning are viewed as valuable and credible by the faculty.

Modern tool of knowledge

From the data, it's evident that online learning has grown significantly from the speculation of its existence. The growth of e-learning shows us that mindset of the learners has changed. They only seek to learn with the system where they find the education quality and other things are matched with their learning criteria. In this scenario, a learner can select traditional or online learning, depending on their need and capability. However, the trend suggests that online distance learning is growing popularly as the flexible, convenient and quality tool for attaining knowledge and skill.

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