Are Online Classes Difficult Or Easy ==
Online classes are difficult. Yes online classes are really difficult. Surprised?
Can you tell me one good book that is really very easy? We know all renowned international textbooks are not easy.
Ok, do you think becoming an engineer or doctor is easy? And if you want to be a graduate of IIT or AIIMS…are they easy? And if suppose, being an engineer or doctor really becomes that easy then can we any longer expect some good quality professionals for the future?
Tell me what good things come easy? So why should you at first place expect a good tutorial class that would earn you a good degree or a good rank in the exam to be that easy?
So the question should be whether online classes are good and effective and not whether they are easy. But still for a note of appreciation, and of course for your relief, I would like to say that online classes are not that difficult also….they are usually easy…..not too much though ….but it is good for you and all.
Online Classes Are Neither Difficult Nor Easy
Yes, this is the exact precise description about online classes. They are neither difficult nor easy. Actually it all depends on you! It is all in the way you take it, the way you deal with it, the way you take your studies and career. If you are serious and sincere about your studies and career, then online classes are easy.
If you are not serious and sincere about your studies and career, then obviously online classes are difficult. So you have to learn to make it easy. And I can bet, that once you tune up yourself properly ready for taking online classes then of course without any doubt online classes become not only easy but even easier than your traditional offline classes.
But as I have already said, to make online classes easy you have to learn certain things and maintain certain things rather little religiously. So let us discuss briefly how we can turn online classes into real easy.
1. Self-discipline
This is perhaps the first and most important point to learn. Because if you do not learn this then it will be hard to learn and maintain other requirements and thus online classes will forever remain difficult instead of easy. Online classes offers us a lot of freedom and flexibility.
And so you know, we are normally and usually more inclined to misuse freedom and flexibility rather than use it dedicatedly for higher purpose. We know traditional schools and tutorials actually and practically impose offline class timings on us. And we are bound to attend the class, we like it or not. But with online classes there are usually no such impositions, no such regulations.
So imagine if your school stops imposing classes on you, then will you self-impose that 6 hours or 8 hours per day class and study on yourself….if suppose it is not almost exam time and you are really afraid with the amount of assignments and studies left to be done. Normally you won’t and can’t self impose such routine ….and that also daily for 5 or 6 days every week.
So it is your school or tutorial that is doing it for you so that you keep progressing at your studies. So now you can guess what and where is the role of self-discipline for taking online classes. If you do not maintain your regular class times, and, assignment and study schedules then you will invariably make you feel very troubled and concerned at times of exams and then you will start to feel online classes are really harder than offline classes and so you failed to cope up.
But on the brighter side, just think about the amount of advantage an online class can provide you in terms of time management with other schedules and commitments of your life, and also can be economical both in terms of your money and your energy.
You can use the time freedoms for earning for yourself or your family, pursue some other career options or some of your creative side or passion and still beside all and everything your studies will keep on going smoothly.
2. Daily scheduling
So now if I suppose you have already learned to be quite self-disciplined, then comes the question of next process. Following the right kind of process in the right way will ensure your easy and comfortable journey with your online classes and will come with a promise of a good result and career.
The first of all processes is daily time scheduling. You may have your own likes and preferences of studies. We all have our own. And we design and follow processes based on those preferences, we also make methods on that. So you at first have to sit calmly and think deeply about your own likes and preferences.
And obviously your preferences will also depend on your conveniences with relation to all other affairs and involvements, priorities and responsibilities in your life which only you can introspect and decide. And as you think and decide, settle some fixed hours of your day for your studies, your online classes.
That may be one hour per day or may be 4 hours or may be many more, it all depends on your situation and choice. But you have to consider a fixed study time settlement at first. Let me suppose you settle for just 3 hours per day. Ok…good. Now how to ensure your regularity and punctuality about getting that 3 hours out of all your daily chores and engagements.
Better fix an exact time frame instead of that abstract three hours. Again you have flexibility to fix your time frame at your convenience. But try to fix one. Maybe Monday you have your three hours in the morning. Maybe Tuesday you can make it only in the evening. Another day it may be hard for you to get three hours at a stretch….so you may also break it like 1 hour in morning and 2 hours in evening….or something like that as your convenience.
Maybe one day you need some discount due to very hectic other schedules….so for that day you may need an hour of discount to make it just 2 hours. Sunday you may opt for an offday or can make it a study-day. So it’s all upon you, you have to sit quietly and think deeply to chalk out a weekly and even a monthly routine or time-schedule.
But once you settle one, you have to try to make sure that you will strictly adhere to your own schedules and no one else will take responsibilities for that. Only deviations can happen under some emergency situations and obviously that does not happen regularly.
So once you are successful in doing this bit of toughest part, then slowly and gradually your online classes will not only become very easy but also a very pleasant and enjoyable experience.
The next point is to set a class schedule.
3. Set a class schedule
Your class schedule is almost the same thing as you used to have to some class routines or subject routines in your schools or tutorials. You must be having different classes for different subjects, classes for projects and assignments, home works and class works…and so on. So likewise you need to make a routine for your studies as well.
You must be having different subjects in your online classes. So you have to at first set how much time a day you will dedicate for viewing an online class, how much time for reading through the study materials or notes, and how much for doing assignments. Again these are also variables and it is up to you how to set the routine and ratio of time between subjects and activities.
So by now you already have an idea about what first things you have to do and that will turn your online classes into an easy and enjoyable choice. At present you try for this….this may take some time as we are not too much habituated or adept to plan our own study schedules….we always got it forced implemented on us either by teachers or by parents.
So it’s your turn….show yourself that you can also do it better for yourself. In the next many upcoming articles I would discuss many different detailed and intricate ways and methods for making your journey with online classes both easy and enjoyable as well as a great success. Do keep in touch and keep visiting our website for more interesting topics on online classes.
In the meantime….keep going and best of luck.
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