By nations, do you mean national/federal governments? Countries vary in which level of government is responsible for education! Are you referring to higher education or K-12 or primary education?

"Online education" is a very broad term - would be helpful to specify what you mean by this. MOOCs? Blended models? Synch or asynch?

By nations, do you mean national/federal governments? Countries vary in which level of government is responsible for education! Are you referring to higher education or K-12 or primary education?

"Online education" is a very broad term - would be helpful to specify what you mean by this. MOOCs? Blended models? Synch or asynch?

Ahmadaliev:

I'll deal with the effectiveness part of your question from my own experience and research. Online education is growing rapidly worldwide but there are some issues that can make it ineffective for particularly international students: cultural insensitivity and invisibility in the curriculum. I hope that the two articles attached can help to inform how ineffectiveness can be avoided regarding responsiveness to international students.

Many thanks,

Debra

Data Generation I: International and invisible in a workforce edu...

Article Cultural Sensitivity Needed in Online Discussion Rubric Language

Dear Laura,

Thanks for asking to clarify the question:

Yes, “By nations”. I wanted to mention abstract communities not national/federal governments.

- A Country may have specific educational program, but may not success to apply for every states;

- Lacking of IT literacy can serve as a significant barrier for students attempting to get access to the course materials and cause having no satisfaction:

- And there are also some claiming aspects for impact in campus-based education:

Except MOOCs, I would ask online education on all levels of education.

So, the question is still OPEN.

Is online education being accepted by all nations as an effective way of learning/teaching?

In my personal view, not all nations / countries' students fully accepted online education as an effective way of learning / teaching.  This might due to the following reasons:

Combining online & face to face classroom education offer best of both worlds to students for learning in terms of flexibility, learner centric, technology enabled etc.

In our country, formal courses in the undergraduate and graduate are formally offered by universities as an alternative mode for teaching. The government agency in charge of tertiary education accredits them.

Well, in fact, I think the answer to your question goes largely generated by the interaction with ICT learning processes. The trend towards the integration of communications is inevitable at this time because the reality of connectivity is indisputable. The big concern is not accepted or the validity of distance education but access or not to it may cause significant gap in the population. Could be that is the most big problem right now: to access connectivity in order to access, in turn, knowledge and learning processes aided or based on ICT

Best Regards,

Xavier

Dear Waldemar, Xavier, Debra.

I appreciate your contributions. :-)

Surely consider these suggestions.

Dear Waldemar

No need to look up for the meaning :-),

For your reference:

The Meaning of Normal is (psychol) – educational success or ability.

But, thanks for asking