Online Education
                     
  



  

ONLINE EDUCATION


  

WHAT IS ONLINE EDUCATION :

 

“Online education is a type of distance learning 
– taking courses without attending brick and 
mortar school or university”.


  

TYPES

Synchronous:- 
“Teacher and student have some direct 

simultaneous Contact”.

Asynchronous:-
“Instructor and learner do not meet in time or 

space”.


  

BENEFITS:

1)Flexibility in time.
2)Variation in course module.
3)Lower cost.
4)Comfortable learning environment.
5)Continue in profession.


  

Negativities

➔Only few people take admission (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

1) Journey from US and 
Europe but followed by 
whole world.

2) Common platform 
sharing.

3) Acceptance of
certificate throughout
the world.

Some popular online education 
platform


  

Future and Business Probability :- 
Future :-
a)  65% post-secondary institute providing college level online 
courses.
b)  Large number of schools from western countries 
participating.
c)  IIMB has tied up with edX platform.

Business probability:-
I.  Big companies are investing.
II.  Google Capital invest $40 million in online education giant 
Renaissance Learning.
III.  Online education giant Khan academy’s revenue as per 2012 
data 15.795 million USD.
IV.  User of edX (provider of MOOC) – more than 5 million.


  

CONCLUSION:- 

a)ICT and e-learning offers opportunity to 
schools.
b) Helping to break the educational barrier.
c)Need a lot of improvement.
d) Need to create awareness for online 
education.