In the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, the boundaries and conflicts between face-to-face and distance education have been erased. In my concept this time has led to a shift, toward hybrid educational models.
COVID-19 has highlighted issues entrenched in our global education system going back 200 hundred years - from inequality of funding between schools to a lack of focus on emotional wellbeing.
E-learning is here to stay. As computer ownership grows across the globe e-learning becomes increasingly viable and accessible. Internet connection speeds are increasing, and with that, opportunities for more multimedia training methods arise.
Technology has forever changed the way education is delivered. ... eLearning has changed the way students think about education and pursue their degrees. Nowadays, it has become easier to receive a degree or certificate online. Students no longer need to commute to a classroom and are often able to learn at their own pace.
But the truth is that many times elearning is not effective when the content is bad. This can mean it is the wrong information, not enough information, presented in an ineffective manner, or dated. ... If people are learning dated information, then the probability that problems will arise certainly increases.
To sum up, most experts maintain that direct instructor-learner interaction remains crucial in the learning process. Indeed, self-driven e-Learning could not substitute schools, yet specific features of a traditional classroom rendered online would greatly enrich the learning process.
Interesting postures... Maybe that's the challenge, but I agree with Humberto Costa
, we are making the same mistakes as in the face-to-face model, or at least we want to emulate this model in remote learning. I think it is an opportunity to learn about the evaluation issue that we have pending. There were gaps in the development of competencies and I think that here is an opportunity to analyze what is important, which goes beyond the questionnaires, how can we make them reason? beyond that immediate comfort.
Dear Ilya Casanova, Despite its advantages and disadvantages, e-learning would be an important means of teaching and learning tools in the foreseeable future.
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Online classes will save teaching time in schools and these saved time will be utilized to do creativity, innovation, skills development, personality development and life skills training. This can help students to grow in real sense.
The Hybrid approach is definitely the way forward. We are educating for tomorrow.
The practice will get better, with higher standards, clear expectations, and equity in place. Perhaps one may consider the current experience as a forced transition into the virtual world which will make the world truly a global village!
I also would like to say that the sage on the stage attitude belongs to a bygone era. The role of the current educator is to guide (always commensurate wt age group, culture, etc). Keep himself/herself updated (professional development), and open in his/her nterpretation of facts and, or hypothesis. Non dogmatic and non judgemental. The hybrid approach relates well with this rationale. Definitely the 21st century is as exciting as challenging and fun. Quality education is the key for a better world!
This transformation of education system is going to be permanent for some extent. There are several advantages of distant learning as well as a lots of shortcomings. I personally feel that it will be more helpful who are already privileged in life. There is a chance that a large group of students from low socioeconomic condition will be deprived from access to education as they are not in a position to afford devices or internet. Education is thought to be a way to reduce discrepancy, so need to address this issue.
It has created a shift in the educational system from teaching to learning. Students are now more engaged in the learning process, although it comes with its challenges such as seating for too long during online interractions
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I think this COVID-19 gives us a nice challenge to enhance our lessons in the future. In other words, when we go back to the classrooms and restart the relatonship with our students.
In my case, I realised that e-learning it's not the big solution. It gives us a new dimension to change our teaching methods and our function in the educational process.
Dear Ilya Casanova , I think it's a good question to think about how to reconcile the positive aspects and good practices of both face-to-face and online modality, and that's why I follow your note for hybrid mode. I think we could think in terms of the opportunity we now have to reimagine education. It is not possible to do online education without planning and more without a multidisciplinary team that produces videos, applications, open resources and that carefully evaluate the process for its improvement. It would be a mistake to practice such as some private networks that are dismissing teachers and instructors to reduce costs, and prejudicing the quality of teaching. For this hybrid modality that is not one or the other, but a combination that can vary and adapt according to different contexts and realities, we teachers need to be open and flexible. But we must not forget that the online modality did not create the inequality that many students and families do not have access to, it just revealed the existing inequality situation. That is why governments should create conditions for accessibility and connectivity so that people in vulnerable situations have access. Not only with equipment, but above all with subsidies to survive, without adequate food, you don't study and you don't learn. We have a great challenge ahead of us, and I think discussions like this that mobilize people in different contexts strengthen us to expand academic networks and put pressure on the authorities. I agree with the comments of colleagues Francesc Buscà , Muhammad Aledeh
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I don't think that the term "remote learning" will exist by the time this pandemic ends. I say this because there will be only one type of learning and that is what is being referred as "remote learning" these days. In future it will be referred as "learning" only.
I would be surprised if in future the type of learning that you are talking about, does not become more popular. That will however, spell dooms day for learning in developing economies. Internet connection, laptop, smart phones are costlier than life itself in most of such countries. Thus, learning may be hindered in these types of developing economies. In the developed nations, learning will become easier. Hence, these countries will progress faster. This will create a difference between the developing and developed countries. As a result of this frustrations may increase in major parts of the world. And, I am sorry to disappoint many by saying that at some point of time it will become almost impossible to manage that frustration.
It is too early to comments about the future learning. Virtual has no doubt given an alternative option to extend the education and support to deprived segment.
La pandemia, como ya he comentado en otros foros, es una gran oportunidad y la propia resiliencia de la Educación. Es oportuno repensar, desaprender y reaprender para hacer de la educación bimodal una verdadera alternativa. Eso pasa por formar, formarnos, formar ciudadanos digitales capaces de utilizar eficientemente las TIC para hacerlas TAC (Tecnologías del Aprendizaje y el Conocimiento).
I studied a Grad Cert this year completely online as a local university was unable to offer the training I wanted. The online learning experience for me was mostly positive. The upside was no lost hours in the day spent travelling to and from the uni, finding parking, and walking across campus to get to classes. It used to take nearly two hours out of my day just to attend lectures and tutorials. That is wasted time when I could have been studying or attending to other duties. Add to that the cost of petrol and parking (public transport takes hours from where I live) and the costs of attending in person mount up if you don't live close close to your campus.
Another upside was that, strangely, I felt that I developed a much better relationship with my lecturers and tutors online than I had onsite. They were able to give me more detailed feedback on written work I submitted weekly for tutorial/workshop tasks. As I'm not as strong an auditory learner as I am visual, this was a real blessing. The online resources and video lectures were also great as I could access them at my leisure and control the speed of delivery, giving myself time to make good notes.
The downside was technology issues, audio dropouts mostly that occurred during tutorials/workshops. These happened across a couple of different meeting platforms, although less with Zoom. Practicums, of course, still need to be conducted outside home but supervision meetings seem to work very well online as screen-sharing capabilities can be taken advantage of.
Online learning may not suit extrovert learners as well as introverts. However, I think the plus side for students is considerable, where good quality teaching staff and online resources are provided and reliable technologies are made available. I'd like to do all my future courses online where appropriate.
I believe that this phase is just temporary and remote teaching and other virtual methods of teaching cannot replace the traditional face to face method of learning and education.
So, the online approach can't be use to make the same. In other words, can be an opportunity to change our classroom methods but not to do master class where the students only have to pay attention and make notes!
On the other hand, in my case the hybrid approach is the better option to optimize the time when my students are going achieve theoretical knowledge and practical knowledge.