Since the experience of COVID-19 in the world, educational bodies, institute of higher learning has adopted distance education. Even though the use has existed ever before the COVID-19 issue. However, this incident in the world make concept of distance education more robust and widely used. Distance education avail learning process to occur in a scenario where the instructor and the students are separated in space and time. This factor my hinder effective impartation of the subject matter or make the students not to take serious the learning process. Hence, the question.
Distance Education can be more effective than onsite education Oluwatimilehin Emmanuel Fabeku if pedagogics (didactics, mathetics) and technology (multi-media sources) are merged according to the taught subject; in addition, this educational method can be enriched by a hybrid model, e.g. conference, final research seminary, learning week.
My point is here that the effective accumulation of bodies in space (and time) depends on the spiritual level and motivation of the group, i.e. decisive for human learning processes is, imo, the inspirational set up (depth) of a curriculum and its (interactive) delivery.
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Let the main object... to seek and to find a method of instruction, by which teachers may teach less, but learners learn more.
John Amos Comenius
Dear Mr. Fabeku!
You raised an important topic. Please let me argue that the best option is to merge these two forms of education into a hybrid - one:
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3) A case study: Zhiyong Li, Pengju Guan, Jiaying Li, Jing Wang,
Comparing online and offline Chinese EFL learners' anxiety and emotional engagement,Acta Psychologica, Volume 242, 2024,
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Case - and context-dependent factors determine how to merge the two dimensions of offline and online education.
Yours sincerely, Bulcsu Szekely
One unexpected benefit of the Covid 19 lockdown at the 6th Form UK College where I worked (now retired) was in increased team work producing the very best on-line teaching. Each Biology teacher for example, concentrated on their area of particular expertise, rather than having to teach the whole Biology sylabus. This resulted in much more interesting and exciting presentations - aided by the very best Media teachers and technicians also freed from each teaching their entire curriculum...