What is online Education? Online education is a type of distance learning-taking courses without attending brick and mortar school and university. Online student and teacher Interaction over the internet Two way communication Get knowledge
Types Synchronous Teacher and student have some direct simultaneous contact. Asynchronous Instructor and learner do not meet in time or space.
Benefits Flexibility in time. Variation in course module. Lower cost. Comfortable learning environment. Continue in profession.
Negativities Only few people take admissions(approx. 1%-2%) High rate of students leaving the course. Don’t know the aim. Low level of eagerness to participate. Less rules.
Global expansion and certification. Journey from US and Europe but followed by whole world. Common platform sharing. Acceptance of certificate throughout the world. Some popular online education platform.
Future 65% post secondary institute providing college level online courses. Large number of schools from western countries participating. IIMB has tied up edx platform.
Business probability. Big companies are investing. Google capital invest $40 million in online education giant Renaisance learning. Online education giant khan academy’s revenue as per 2012 data 15.795 million USD. User od edx (provider of MOOC)-more than 5 million.
Conclusion ICT and e-learning offers opportunity to schools. Helping to break the education barrier. Need a lot of improvement. Need to create awareness for online education.