What is Better Online Education or Traditional Education? (Article Sample)

Name Instructor Course Date What is better online education or traditional education? Online education is studying through the internet. The courses are given through platforms based on the internet like Aleks and Blackboard. Online education also allows a student to take exams, and assessments online. Traditional education is the mortal and brick schooling system that students have to gather at certain points in order to take classes from a physically present teacher. Traditional systems run on rigid schedule and sit in exams and classes with maximum supervision. In this paper we are going to evaluate both sides of argument. Research on the two systems of education has shown that traditional education is better than online education. The first issue that we have to dress is interaction. Online education creates interaction through the internet. Students can only interacts using mails and on the discussion post. The physical interaction is limited since each student takes the class from the houses. Traditional system promotes interaction to a great deal. Students have to meet in class during a class and take classes from a physical present teacher. During this process students have a chance to talk with other students and the teacher too. The learning process becomes an interactive process. Interactive learning is better because students share ideas and the teacher can respond to their discussions and make the concepts clear (Hickey). Convenience can be perceived differently by different people. Online education is convenient because one does not need to go to class, have physical books or be confined to a class for a period of lesson time. Online education offers flexibility on the time to study, where to study from and to stop classes, take assessments multiple times and even stop video lectures. Online education is also giving professors a good allowance to record a class systematically. Traditional classes on the other side provide a platform for the instructor and the student to meet and debate over an issue. Students who like to get clarifications and compare notes would love to attend a classic. Teacher would take a traditional system more convenient since they can address student concerns much quickly and satisfactory. The gap that is created between the teacher and students by the online platform creates education problems and poor understanding of class work concepts (OEDB). Traditional system is also convenient for several other people who are disadvantaged. Your students cannot take their classes from the internet. The need for personalized attention calls for a traditional system for young people. Physically challenged people can only use the traditional system since the common computer used for online classes has not been made for physically challenged people. These make the traditional system most applicable in many cases where we are dealing with minors and people who have various disabilities (OEDB). We have to assess which equipment we will require and whether it is readily available for both online education and traditional education. For online education, we require a good internet access, computer electricity. These are basic house hold things that every home has. A traditional class would require buildings and teaching equipment. Most of the equipment that belongs to the traditional system is tangible and permanent. Online education requires things that seem not very permanent and readily available. It is possible to have an electric blackout or internet failure due to constructions etc. Therefore online education equipment poses more threat to the student than the equipment of a traditional class (Preston). Let’s look at how effective online and traditional classes are. The definition of teaching is to train or show someone how to do something. Teaching involves educating, instructing and training people. All these concepts seem to be practical practices that cannot be done without the presence...