Growing Importance of Remote Learning
The global outbreak of the Covid-19 Pandemic has ushered in new challenges for carrying out day-to-day operations across different aspects of our lives. In fact, the new type of dealings that are needed to be brought about for pursuing activities in one’s day-to-day life has led to the emergence of the concept of “new normal”. This, “new normal” aspect has deeply impacted the educational sphere, amongst other operational spheres, and has significantly contributed to the need for online education. Educational institutions spread around the world are continually working on enhancing their online platforms for meeting the learning needs of masses around the world. Carrying out of learning based on the incorporation of digital platforms, which was earlier limited to some specific disciplines, is now considered to be a bare necessity for meeting of educational needs of students across different streams and levels.
The growing significance of remote learning can be further understood based on inferring the different advantages posed by it. The same are underlined as follows:
Quality Enhancement
The quality enhancement of the traditional educational framework is brought about, in terms of developing online study courses, through the incorporation of PDF Documents like Class Notes, uploading of videos developed by faculties, taking of online assessments and generation of online certificates. The incorporation of different digital tools as entailed above along with the development of educational apps has altogether contributed in making the education framework sophisticated in nature.
Enhanced Flexibility
The uploading and dissemination of learning materials via the use of online learning portals has indeed been able in warping the space-time nexus. Students that have got enrolled in these online courses thus earn the ability for accessing the learning and assessment resources from their own chosen locations based along diverse time zones. The development of digital educational frameworks has significantly assisted the educational institutions in reaching learning support to masses spread along internationally. Moreover, the incorporation of asynchronous learning systems on an enhanced scale ideally contributes in encouraging the masses to pursue their learning based on their own comfort and availability.
Affordable Learning
Online studies compared to the traditional systems of learning carried out for professional courses are evaluated to have become quite affordable in nature. The aspect of affordability, regards to remote learning programs, is ideally addressed owing to the lack of need of arrangement of residential, meal and transportation facilities for the students. Moreover, the development of paper-less educational framework further helps in reducing the cost associated with the generation and dissemination of the courses along an international framework.
Reduced Chances of Absenteeism
In that, the remote learning system requires the students for pursuing their education from the comfort of their homes or chosen locations the rate of student absenteeism associated to the different classes is greatly reduced. The existence of flexible study schedules for online study courses, needed to be pursued in a synchronised manner, ideally helps in enhancing the availability of students for such classes.
Carrying out Learning in a Controlled Setting
The availability of both synchronous and asynchronous learning resources and tools ideally help the students in generating greater control for meeting the learning objectives. The remote learning environment has ideally assisted the students in maintaining an effective work-life balance in terms of getting adequate time for meeting their domestic needs and thereby carrying on their studies. Likewise, the available of flexible time frameworks also help the students to develop timetables that suit them the best.
Socialising Opportunities
Students who have enrolled themselves in remote learning programs are blessed with an effective opportunity for the need to socialise, with their peers and mentors, through the use of the social networking platforms. In traditional learning settings, students only earn the ability of communicating with their mentors within the classroom or institutional setting. However, the incorporation of different video-conferencing tools has enabled face-to-face learning and communication in online education.
Safer Learning Environment
In the face of growing health problems, which often have proved to be fatal, along the Covid-19 environment the system of remote learning offers a safer learning environment to foster upon. Students and teachers earning the ability to communicate with each other based on a virtual setting potentially work in meeting the learning objectives with needed safety. The same encourages the growth of participation of larger number of students, globally, in such remote learning programs.
Remote Learning Framework of Globsyn Business School Online
Globsyn Business School Online (GBS Online) operates as the online portal for Globsyn Business School (GBS) that carries its legacy of being ahead of the curve as one of the top 50 B-Schools in India. The GBS Online has been developed for encouraging students to pursue their dreams of participating in online business programs. The online learning portal is continually being developed and strengthened through the incorporation of diverse courses under verticals like Management, Foreign Languages and Vocational courses. The Portal is ideally developed to encourage students carry out their learning based on accessing of handouts and other learning materials available as PDF Files, Multiple Choice Question (MCQ) based assignments, session videos rendered by concerned faculties and thereby earn digital certificates for the same. The courses are ideally developed in an asynchronous manner for encouraging students to carry out their learning with needed comfort and ease from their chosen locations.
The analysis of the different advantages associated with remote learning potentially helps in understanding the reasons behind its growing importance in the educational sphere. The online mode of learning is certainly a greatest revolution in the education system that has opened enormous opportunities for learners across the globe.