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Being a part of the internet and technological world, how can we avoid the growth and importance of online education? Before you go through this guide and all other things associated with online education, may be you wonder about the benefits and advantages of gaining education online.

What’s the benefit? What should you study online? And what’s it’s all about? Well, when it comes to online study, it is really difficult to separate facts from frictions, especially when there is a lot of information published on the internet comes from students and colleges who are, usually, partial.

Here we discuss some of the upsides of the online education and traits that are advantageous for various sorts of learners. If all is done, at last, the only nominal difference between the online study and campus education is just a building.

Convenience: The critics of online education always share the idea that convenience is the negative word. According to him, folks who ask about convenience are, usually, lazy and like to spend all his time on bed in their pajamas. But that’s very far from true. The tremendous growth of internet today makes it easier for a learner as well as for educators to gain knowledge and to teach respectively, without fixed, long class schedules. Online education provides great convenience to working professionals, stay at home parents, military members and many others who are not lazy but prone to cutting edges. Contrary they are busy and ambitious learners who just need a better place to enhance their knowledge and online study is best to them.

Approach for students with disabilities: Traditional colleges are not designed to welcome students with disabilities. Online education, on the other hand, is designed for everyone and also supports students with physical and intellectual disabilities. Similarly, gifted educators who lack in the ability to teach in campus classes can also continue their careers and big thanks to internet functionality.

Environmental friendly: It has been noticed that campus colleges and universities produce excess pollution in the process of powering their libraries, heating and cooling their classrooms and computer labs and also responsible for increased paper waste. As environmental concern is on high these days because of increasing green-house effects and other factors, online education is no doubt earth friendly choice we have.

Approach for rural students: Students who are residing in major cities and towns might choose to approach campus education. However, thousands of other students cannot. If there is no college and school in your town, the cost of commuting in terms of fuel cost and time can be restrictive. Earlier those students who are not able to pursue higher education just because of not having a college in their area, online education today reduce these geographic barriers.

The best thing is that- nowadays several colleges and universities are there opting to develop online programs to assist their enrollments and stretch their budgets as well. So if any of the above attributes can enhance your college experience, you have to consider an online degree.

Is a “Cloud based” educational system a real possibility, or the mere dream of a utopian future? In hid TED talk, educator and activist, Suguta Mitra asserts his optimistic vision of access to learning for all. His enthusiasm for a global cloud based education is not without experiential foundation. Mitra relates how his experiments of placing computer terminals in remote locations with the particular intention of engaging children with the machines, lead to some astonishing discoveries and insights about the nature of learning.

Mitra started by placing a computer terminal in a slum neighborhood in Delhi. He wanted to see how the local children, most living in poverty with no exposure to technology, would respond to an essentially alien device. The children he found in the city were fast adaptors, mastering the computer in a few months. Some attributed this to the urban atmosphere in Delhi were the kids were probably instructed by a local technologist. Mitra was not convinced. Determined to prove his findings, he next placed a computer 100 miles outside Delhi in the remote village where most of the population did not even speak English. Again he did not instruct the children, shrugging off questions with responses like “well, it is.” Months passed and when he came back he found the children playing games. They were irritated with him “you left this machine here with instructions in English so we had to learn English,’ they said. They also requested a faster processor and a better mouse.

In the final level of this experiment, Mitra decided to leave a computer loaded with esoteric explanations of DNA all in a non-English speaking Tamil town. “It has lots of important information on it,” he told the curious local children. He had no expectation they would be able to decipher any of the scientific content. Months later he again returned and it seemed his anticipated result of no progress was indeed the case. “We study it every day,” the children said, “We know nothing.” Mitra was ready to accept this failure and then, a small girl piped up in broken English “Yes, except for the fact a broken DNA strand leads to disease, we have learned nothing.”

In continuing cases Mitra found the same results. He also discovered the children learned more with some interaction with an adult. These adults, however, did not take on a formal teaching role, but instead acted in what he describes as the “granny approach;” standing behind the children and asking questions like ‘OH, what is that?” “What do you think it means?” He even employed a whole retinue of English grandmothers to interact with village children via the internet.

The implications Mitra’s experiments have for the use of the Cloud as a provider of knowledge, and the educational process itself are remarkable. In the past citizens were educated in many basic clerical skills, reading, writing etc., which in many ways have been replaced by machines. The population of the future will be more focused in understanding and interpreting information, rather than more rudimentary tasks. With the simple access to information an abundance of true thinkers can be developed.