Teaching and learning is an essential part of our life. It is how we mold our children and students into the tiny adults that they will eventually become.
With CoVid-19 taking over and limiting everyone’s ability to convene in public places, virtual or online teaching is the newest and most widespread form of distance learning. With the help of technology and software programs, online teaching takes place solely through the internet. All you need is a computer or tablet! Online teaching and virtual learning is done mostly through the use pre-recorded video and audio lectures for students. Customized software programs allow teachers to design and deliver new course content. There’s various software tools conducive to online teaching includes to enable learning and communication. This new way of learning is something teachers, parents, and students are all adapting to.
Online teaching used to be used for those who wanted to continue their education, but were unable to meet in a face-to-face setting. Now, with CoVid-19, online teaching is the only way to obtain an education. With the pandemic, online teaching has allowed students to continue teaching their students even when there is no possibility of physical appearances or on-campus class sessions. Working professionals used to update themselves through online classes and tutoring websites. Various tutoring websites are available over the internet.
Tutoring websites provide a platform to enhance an interactive learning environment and promote online teaching. It is designed to make the students more proficient in the work they are learning remotely through their teachers. Most teachers observed that tutoring services provide a high degree of personal contact and are able to form a mentor-mentee like relationship. Many even say that they get to know their online students much better.
What are the key roles with online teaching:-
- A healthy discussion on the child’s strengths and weaknesses occurs between teachers and students over the internet.
- With CoVid-19, student-to-teacher and student-to-student interaction and discussion is only made possible with online teaching;
- It’s a more student-centered learning environment; there’s less passive listening and more active learning; there’s a greater sense of connection.
- More effective than offline teaching because online teaching is accompanied by various teaching aids.
- It is free of boring lectures and can get the student engaged in learning with one-on-one help.
- Online teaching facilitates and enhances communication and interaction in ways that would be impossible in other situations.
