Virtual Learning vs. Classroom Learning: Which is better and more impactful
5 years, 5 months ago

Virtual Learning vs. Classroom Learning: Which is better and more impactful

India Today  

The current technological advancements in the way we use the internet have narrowed the bridge between virtual and classroom learning to quite an extent. Let's consider a few parameters and delve deeper into which is better - virtual learning or classroom learning? Virtual Learning vs. Classroom Learning: Which is better and more impactful Face-to-face interaction and group study: Irrespective of the technology available, classrooms are the clear winner here. Virtual Learning vs. Classroom Learning: Which is better and more impactful Discipline and deadlines: There's more freedom with virtual learning. Virtual learning may be well suited for adult students who have to take care of their expenses along with schooling, but for young pupils, there can be no other alternative to classroom learning.

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How to Decide Between Online and Classroom Learning: 7 Key Tips to Help You Decide What Works Best
5 months, 1 week ago

How to Decide Between Online and Classroom Learning: 7 Key Tips to Help You Decide What Works Best

ABP News  

This article provides a comprehensive overview of the differences between online and classroom learning formats, guiding readers on how to decide which approach best suits their individual circumstances and educational goals. The article covers key factors such as learning style, time commitment, cost, interaction opportunities, learning outcomes, access to resources, accreditation, and more. By considering these factors, individuals can make …

How to design better online learning to replicate the essence of the real world
11 months ago

How to design better online learning to replicate the essence of the real world

The Hindu  

You can learn a lot about pottery in an online class. Once we know what we miss, even in the best virtual learning environments, we can factor in those aspects in the course designs. While replicating scents in the virtual space remains a future possibility, we must explore reintroducing sensory elements into the learning process. Virtual environments often lack the …

Here's how virtual-reality can become a great tool for education
2 years, 5 months ago

Here's how virtual-reality can become a great tool for education

India Today  

The face of education has completely been transformed over the centuries. Virtual reality encapsulates a 360 degree format of learning that perfectly fits the bill for enhanced student engagement by keeping learners glued to their headsets as they explore new concepts. The three-dimensional reality creates a life-like virtual environment that enables students to delve deeper into the concept, thereby enhancing …

Learning process: Online vs traditional
2 years, 10 months ago

Learning process: Online vs traditional

India Today  

The debate between online and traditional education continues to take the center seat with every passing day. Interestingly, the reopening of schools in recent months has reignited the debate if online learning will edge past traditional classrooms. But is the online learning process an absolute alternative to traditional learning? COMPARING ONLINE AND TRADITIONAL LEARNING PROCESSES Features Online Learning Traditional Learning …

Online classroom: How students can build an engaging virtual experience
3 years, 10 months ago

Online classroom: How students can build an engaging virtual experience

India Today  

For as long as we can remember, learning has taken place in the classroom. Studies have revealed that students who learn online perform just as well as their peers in brick and mortar classrooms, as physical location is not the only determining factor of a holistic learning environment. With online learning, the focus benefit lies in giving students control of …

No fun in their virtual classrooms?
3 years, 11 months ago

No fun in their virtual classrooms?

Hindustan Times  

As online classrooms become the order of the day, let's hear it from the students about their experiences and challenges. Nishad Neelambaran and Kavita Awaasthi The ongoing coronavirus pandemic has given rise to ‘new normal’ in education system — online classes. Lenovo Smarter Ed Scholarship — An initiative by Hindustan Times, gives students from class five to 12 to share …

5 tips for teachers to help students learn from distance learning
4 years, 2 months ago

5 tips for teachers to help students learn from distance learning

India Today  

2020 has been a year of major changes, the brunt of which has also rubbed over the ways children are learning and it has been different than ever before. Every day the teachers have to think of new ways and means to make the e-learning experience equally enjoyable and interactive as is the classroom environment. Keep it interactive: Teachers must …

Revolution of Online Education: Advantages And Disadvantages
4 years, 2 months ago

Revolution of Online Education: Advantages And Disadvantages

India TV News  

The COVID-19 lockdown came as a "shock" for several students as coaching classes and schools closed abruptly after the government announced a 21-day nationwide lockdown from March 25 to check the spread of the coronavirus. However, in 2020, one of the most oft-used terms after the pandemic is the term “new normal.” And the new normal in education is the …

5 Things We've Learned About Virtual School In 2020
4 years, 3 months ago

5 Things We've Learned About Virtual School In 2020

NPR  

5 Things We've Learned About Virtual School In 2020 Enlarge this image Carson McNamara for NPR Carson McNamara for NPR Deborah Rosenthal starts her virtual kindergarten class on Zoom every morning with a song — today, it's the Spanish version of "If You're Happy and You Know It." Rouse, in Joliet, calls its training "pretty fabulous" and essential to her …

How Covid-19 pandemic has created spike in demand and popularity of e-learning
4 years, 4 months ago

How Covid-19 pandemic has created spike in demand and popularity of e-learning

India Today  

E-learning is revolutionising our education system as it remains the only option during the ongoing crisis. Many schools are leveraging the crisis as an opportunity to deploy digital technology and make education delivery meaningful, to be more productive and efficient while developing new skills through online learning and assessment. Concrete learning When students and teachers are unable to access physical …

Debunking five common myths about online-learning
4 years, 6 months ago

Debunking five common myths about online-learning

India Today  

Amid Covid-19 pandemic, online learning is taking over the world because of its availability, accessibility, convenience, and flexibility. Online learning is shrouded in myths that make it difficult for learners to accept it as a better alternative to traditional classroom education. Online-Learning is complicated and incomplete Students stay away from online courses because they believe that the instructor is never …

How virtual classes are making the students competent for future?
4 years, 6 months ago

How virtual classes are making the students competent for future?

India Today  

"When you can't change the direction of the wind - adjust your sails," said inspirational writer, H. Jackson Brown. Virtual classes have become the new classrooms, seminars and workshops have turned into webinars, parent-teacher meeting is now happening on a digital forum. Digital learning- A disguised opportunity Nothing can surpass the personal interaction in classes, but the digital learning happening …

Online learning: 5 tools to hold virtual classes during the Covid-19 pandemic
4 years, 7 months ago

Online learning: 5 tools to hold virtual classes during the Covid-19 pandemic

India Today  

The Covid-19 coronavirus outbreak has put the world in lockdown. The silver lining to this cloud is that teachers can use the craze for technology in students to engage them and create learning opportunities even outside the conventional classroom setup. No wonder schools in different parts of the world are shifting to online learning with many teachers recording video classes …

Can online learning replace the school classroom?
4 years, 8 months ago

Can online learning replace the school classroom?

The Hindu  

The COVID-19 outbreak has disrupted the academic year, cancelled classes and examinations across the country. While Maharashtra has banned online classes from pre-primary to Class II, Karnataka and Madhya Pradesh have extended the ban till Class V. In a discussion moderated by Puja Pednekar, Kiran Bhatty and Reeta Sonawat look at the pros and cons of online learning. Reeta Sonawat: …

Can online learning be better than campus learning?
4 years, 10 months ago

Can online learning be better than campus learning?

India Today  

Once a niche form of education, online education is now the norm. Previously reserved for those who wanted a cheaper or more flexible form of education primarily working professionals or distance learning students online education is now only medium of education from kindergarten to colleges. Students have more tools to learn at their own pace Online learning means that lessons …

Traditional learning will always have a place in our classrooms
4 years, 10 months ago

Traditional learning will always have a place in our classrooms

India Today  

The outbreak of COVID-19 has forced innovation across all the sectors and education is no exception to this. Traditional learning has qualitative benefits over online learning and this benefit is more relevant among pre-primary and primary students who have short attention span to be spending hours in a virtual classroom environment. Benefits of traditional learning: One-on-one or in-person teaching is …

Coronavirus outbreak: Myths around online education effectiveness, efficiency busted
4 years, 11 months ago

Coronavirus outbreak: Myths around online education effectiveness, efficiency busted

India Today  

The new coronavirus is spewing its venom relentlessly across the globe. With lockdowns seeing no end in sight, more and more schools are transitioning to online classes to ensure that at least education doesn't take a beating. The teachers and students also use a variety of digital learning tools that ensure that the learning curve never sees a dip. The …

How students are attending virtual school
4 years, 11 months ago

How students are attending virtual school

Live Mint  

For the first time in weeks two Sundays ago, I set an alarm for the next morning. On 30 March, however, we had to be up and somewhat presentable, for our nearly six-year-old son’s school was reopening with a 9am “Morning Circle”—over Google Hangouts. My niece, who is three-and-a-half-years old, has just started nursery sitting in front of the computer …

How teachers are responding to online classes
5 years ago

How teachers are responding to online classes

China Daily  

After COVID-19 hit, all of a sudden teachers and students celebrating Spring Festival were now stuck in their hometowns with nothing to do but eat dumplings, sleep and eat more dumplings. I’ve always used WeChat groups for my classes, as a way to deliver course materials, check homework and class work and communicate with students, but could I actually run …

6 benefits of choosing an online classroom
5 years, 3 months ago

6 benefits of choosing an online classroom

India Today  

Understanding of the conic sections in class 12th mathematics would have been easier, only if we had engaging video lessons so said an engineering aspirant who is all set to give this year’s IIT entrance and is exhausted by the 4-hour long tuitions. But in the recent times, whether it is about prepping up for an engineering entrance or upgrading …

The revolution of online learning
5 years, 4 months ago

The revolution of online learning

Times of India  

Prof. Sir Manuel Freire-Garabal y Núñez is a lawyer and journalist. That studies had shown that online learning is better than “face to face learning” and its implementation is being more effective because of the different technological and pedagogical systems that are being used, based on marketing and Big Data Systems. Although these issues can also appear in “face-to-face learning”, …

Online tutoring vs classroom teaching or offline teaching: Which one should you choose?
5 years, 5 months ago

Online tutoring vs classroom teaching or offline teaching: Which one should you choose?

India Today  

Now-a-days online coaching/tutoring has become a trend. Collaborative learning increases student’s self-awareness about how students learn and enables them to learn more easily and effectively, transforming them into keen learners inside and beyond the classroom. Critical thinking: Classroom teaching enhances students' critical thinking skills. Skill development: Classroom teaching teaches students how to develop organizational skills, beginning with the basics, such …

Is online learning making education easier?
6 years, 3 months ago

Is online learning making education easier?

India Today  

Online education has become popular among working professionals and students in higher education. Setting goals, tracking progress and meeting deadlines Online courses involve setting our own goals, tracking progress and meeting deadlines Online courses call for a greater amount of motivation and self-discipline than a classroom-based course. Online learning can help them pursue highly individualized learning programmes, possibly even college-level …

Online v/s offline learning: Which option is better for personalised learning
6 years, 3 months ago

Online v/s offline learning: Which option is better for personalised learning

Hindustan Times  

What’s plaguing the current education system? First and foremost is the emphasis on theory based rote learning where the focus is centered around securing good grades in examinations, rather than understanding, remembering and applying concepts in the real world. In two of the most watched TED Talks, Sal Khan, founder of non-profit Khan Academy, outlined a mastery-based learning vision, in …

Is online learning a boon or bane? Know the pros and cons here
6 years, 10 months ago

Is online learning a boon or bane? Know the pros and cons here

India Today  

Swati was looking for internship opportunities, but despite constant efforts, she couldn't get one. Offline centres and study material usually make learning monotonous and the student tends to lose interest after a while, but online learning has made it interesting, fun and a cakewalk. Bane of online learning With the increase in the number of students opting for online learning, …

The digital leap
9 years, 6 months ago

The digital leap

The Hindu  

When she finished her Bachelor’s degree in Zoology, Chemistry and Botany, 21 year old Adithi Shenoy went online and signed up for a course on animal welfare and behaviour. Even a market research survey conducted by Talentedge reveals that around 43 percent of the students who opt for online courses come from the IT/BPO sector followed by 20 percent from …

The big question: 'How will e-learning impact the next decade?'
10 years, 11 months ago

The big question: 'How will e-learning impact the next decade?'

Wired  

This article was taken from the April 2014 issue of Wired magazine. Be the first to read Wired's articles in print before they're posted online, and get your hands on loads of additional content by subscribing online. Alice Bentinck Cofounder, Entrepreneur First "E-learning is being pulled offline into 'traditional' classroom settings. Our student programming course, Code First: Girls, has shown …

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