Benefits Of Online Classes?
Hi, welcome back. Today I will discuss some points of benefits of online classes. You already know about traditional offline in-person classes and it’s benefits. But online class is quite a new addition to our education world and many are not properly aware of the benefits and use of online classes.
Why Online Class?
The answer to this question is hidden in the most important benefits of online classes. So first you have to think about why at all you will go for the option of online class? What will make you opt for online classes over traditional offline classes? Let’s see…
Suppose you are doing a job. You have to do it. For yourself and for your family. And if you leave the job for the sake of your education then you will not be able to pay the tuition fees and incur other expenses related to it. So it is not a desired situation.
But as you are looking through different options of courses with traditional offline class, you are finding all are colliding with your job timings. All the class timings are colliding with your office hours. So now what to do? Drop the idea of doing the course or put a resignation at your job? Very hard to decide…right?
This was one of the toughest case for example. There can be other causes, like you may be pursuing a full-time regular course and besides that, you may want to do another professional or vocational course that will enrich your future biodata and help you get a better job or means of earnings. After all, it is always good to add some more skill-sets if possible.
But as you are checking with the different institutes offering the course of your choice, you are finding their offline class timings are colliding with your current class timings of the main regular course. So now what to do?
Another case can be like this. You have your flexibility of timings and you are almost ready to join a course of your choice. Now you start searching for an institute where you can enroll and start the course. But as you search, you discover that no institute near your locality offers such a course. You have to travel a few hundred kilometers for getting such an institute. Everyday to and fro journey is not possible.
So the option is to stay there, away from your home if you want to do the course. So what you will decide? Okay if you do not have too much problems at your home and also do not have much responsibilities, and you have enough money for lodging and fooding there at the campus or outside the campus of the institute then you can think to continue for enrollment.
But what if these privileges are not available to you? Then most probably you have to drop the idea of doing the course?
Or another case can be like this. One institute is offering a course in two different modes, one is the traditional offline classes and another one is distant online classes. And as you check you find that the offline class option is quite more costly than the online version. And you have some issues with money….you may not have plenty to spend. So now what will be your decision?
These are some examples of real-life cases that can arise when you are planning to join a course for study. And you have to take a decision, either negative or positive, depending on your ability and viability to adjust or compromise. And I have seen that in most cases the final option comes as negative, dropping the idea of doing the course.
Why so?
Because time and money are two resources those are very challenging in a highly populated, third world economic system. By now perhaps you are having a slight guess about the usefulness of online classes and how it can put us in a win-win situation from an already lost battle.
Online Classes offers Advantages
So by all the cases, we studied above I can say that online class can offer us some advantages. Advantages are most necessary if we have to win. So can I broadly categorize the advantages online class offers us into three main categories?
- Economical advantages
- Geographical advantages
- Time advantages
1. Economical advantages of online class
In most of cases, online classes are offered at a much cheaper rate than traditional offline classes. This is because the infrastructure setup is lower as there are no requirements of big classrooms, and lesser the infrastructure lower are their maintenance budget. Also good teachers and faculties are easily and economically available even if they are busy with their own schedules.
Moreover, due to the geographical advantage, there can be a lot of money savings. If you need to travel to and fro your offline tutorial using some kind of personal or public transport then you have got a regular expense to incur. By attending online class you no more need that commute cost which can be a great economical saving.
Moreover, there are many such cases where the student needs to relocate temporarily for attending regular classes if the commute distance is far beyond regular to and fro journey possibility. In those cases the cost of boarding, lodging, and fooding can be very high and beyond the capacity of many students of our country. Online class option comes as a boon to those students. Now they can attend their favorite course or tutorial right from their home, without worrying much about expenses that they can’t afford.
2. Geographical advantages of online class
You no longer need to worry about moving out of home to join a course and attend regular classes. Also you will not have to take the pain of traveling hectic long distances everyday to attend your classes. You can do it all via online at your favorite and comfortable place, let it be your home or bedroom, or a cafe in your locality or anywhere else of your choice. It’s your study, your decision where you would want to do it best.
3. Time advantage of online classes
In case of a traditional offline class, the class timings are set by the authority of the school or tutorial and every student has to adhere to that time routine. But the condition and convenience of all students cannot be equal.
But that differences or variations are beyond the scope of concern for traditional offline classes. But in case of online classes again the ball is in your court. It’s you who will choose the right time for your study and attending classes. No one else will decide it for you.
So you can arrange and customize your timings according to your priorities and your studies won’t be hampered or compromised due to other problems or inconveniences. This is one of the greatest benefits of online class.
These are some of the most significant benefits of online class. There can be more benefits at the individual level of students, and that can vary from case to case. But in general we can find these benefits with almost all students taking online class instead of traditional offline classes.
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