According to recent research, in US, the cost of
higher education has been increasing by a total of 559 percent
since 1985, because of this fact, education has become (is becoming)
unaffordable for many people. Nowadays, many groups from top universities herd
people online from all around the world to educate them try to give them the
best courses from the best universities and provide this opportunity to everyone
all around the world for free. There are enormous benefits on a global scale:
people from all around the world can take whatever course they like and pay no
tuition, increase their ability to learn with online peer assessment, have
instant feedback via computer grading. Besides the benefits, there are some
drawbacks of massive online education to overcome such as getting a certificate
instead of a degree, lack of social aspects of university life and less
interaction.
There is a tremendous global need for high quality
education, and it is becoming unaffordable due to high tuition fees. According
to recent research in the UK, university applications have been decreasing (are
decreasing) year by year. Unlike regular universities, people’s interest in
massive online education has been increasing (is increasing) day by day. For instance, Coursera and Edx, online
education academies, are forming partnerships with universities to offer
existing courses and they are all free of charge to everyone from all around
the World.
During the course, online academies use discussion
forums in order to discuss what they teach and interact with each other.
Students learn from each other through teaching under the supervision of course
educators. (Students learn from each other and the teachers through supervised
discussions, lectures and practice) Computer graded exercises are performed to get
instant feedback to allow students to return to teaching moments to learn
outcomes. In addition, during the course videos, students can hit the pause button,
rewind or mute the professor to help learning.
However, there are still so many problems regarding
online education: students do not get a degree, only a certificate in pdf form.
Unlike regular universities, the online education system does not supply
students with life-long friends, opportunities to join a social group and
opportunities to learn how to operate and share public machines. In addition,
due to less interaction, students can not apply what they learn theoretically
from videos. To overcome the above
obstacles, Antioch College offered a mixture of real-life and online teaching.
The College management supplies students with dormitories to live together in
order to socialize, organize courses online for free.
Consequently, in view of the given information, it is
essential that online education reach people from all around the world and give
courses that they want for free. Considering benefits and requirements on a
global scale, it seems that massive online education will become more common.
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