Revolutionizing Education: Benefits and Drawbacks of E-Learning

The main and basic idea of education is showing the right ways for a person to be perfect. Education gives the right and better way to make their aims and dreams come true. Hence every person in the world should learn to reach destiny and it is a social responsibility as well.

What is e-learning or electronic learning refers to the learning and training through digital resources. It is provided through electronic devices. Such as desktop computers, laptops, tablets, and even mobile phones that are connected to the internet. The term E-learning has only been in existence since 1999.

Today, you could hardly come across any person or a place that does not use technology in day-to-day activities. Like Education, Health, Business, etc. Because of technology e-learning is now made possible all over the world. Many students worldwide can now access all kinds of courses online without leaving the comfort of their homes. They are given opportunities to learn from the best educators and interact with other students from different locations. There are many types of e-learning, such as group e-learning, video-based e-learning, app-based e-learning, and so on and so far.

Today, worldwide e-learning has become a convenient as well as a mandatory way to access back to our studies based on schools, colleges, and universities, because of the covid-19 pandemic.

We can list out many benefits of electronic learning. It provides quick delivery of lessons as compared to traditional classroom teaching methods. This mode has a relatively quick delivery cycle. Another biggest advantage of e-learning is cost-effective as compared to the traditional form of teaching. The lessons for price reduction are because learning through this mode happens quickly and easily. Not only that but also e-learning improves student's self-study skills as well as it makes knowledge wider. Because it gives maximum benefits from minimum requirements. Because of its convenience and flexibility, the sources are available at any time from anywhere. After that online learning education helps in creating and communicating new training concepts and ideas.

There are we can list out a lot of advantages in online learning, but only a few disadvantages have. The big and main disadvantage is we can reach knowledge only on a theoretical basis. Unfortunately, we can’t get practical knowledge. After that, through online base learning, we don’t see our classmates and teachers face to face anymore. So, we can identify e-learning as one cause of social isolation. Moreover, e-learning includes assignments, tests, projects, etc. However, there are no teachers or educators to supervise them.

Another saddest con is, in this world developed countries are few. Developing and undeveloped countries are many. So, many of the families are in poverty. Sometimes they can’t effort to online base education. Last but not least, in rural areas they have pure internet coverage. And the next one is sometimes it has a lot of technical issues. So we can’t concentrate on our lessons as well as lectures peacefully and clearly.