Today, without a doubt technology has brought is wondrous change towards the way we communicate with each other. Especially in relation towards education as everything starts to go digitalize or already has been digitalize for the students, teachers, lecturers and professor’s comfort. Hence, with the information and data all online debate has been sparked in the issue of students being in debt for enrolling into universities, paying huge lump sums of fees in getting a cert in their course of completion of the particular program (Schell 2009).
Without a doubt, offering online courses or classes gives rise towards convenience, cost effectiveness, and a wide integration of interactive features such as videos, pictures, quizzes, and many more but the question remains that since it brings so many benefits towards the students, how come it still raises debates with the general publics. The world wide web offers opportunity to work with the most wonderful media of our time and making each individual visionary thoughts becomes visible yet people are still against online education with the disband of physical universities (Miller 2010). In agreement of Miller (2010) further elaboration upon the new media technology with online education versus traditional universities, is the point of ‘thinking’ in which thought to be one of the hardest, wayward, messy, reckless business in which can only be learnt through the natural point of human interaction rather than a piece of convergent device that information has already been available with a few taps and touches away. Look at the routinize routine of human everyday behaviour, waking up from the bed using the mobile device with its alarm clock functionality, during a meal instead of socializing with the people around but everyone is focused on their mobile device being busy with social networking, and now even to bring it towards the concept of online education the issue is that the lack of interaction between human to human will be lesser and lesser creating an enclosed environment with everyone in their own shell comfort.
The internet was not created by itself, but by people of off the internet world. The usage of internet education has been recognized that its mastery leads to systemic changes in content, not only in education but in society as a whole (Ovsiannikov & Monakhov 2007). Not discriminating the internet as being a discouraged platform for online education, instead of diminishing the physical aspect of universities, online education should be a supporting platform in conjunction with the particular university as it is the fastest platform for one to communicate with their peers in a distant location.
Reference
Miller, R 2010, ‘The Coming Apocalpyse’, Pedagogy Winter, vol.10, no.1, pp 143-151
Ovsiannikov, A & Monakhov, S 2007, ‘The social effectiveness of internet education’, Russian Education & Society, vol.49, no.3, pp 61-86.
Schell, E 2009, ‘Online education, contingent faculty and open source unionism’, In Toward a Global Autonomous University (eds) The Edu-factory collactive, Autonomedia New York, pp 114-118.
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