Written by: Diya Shrestha - 22032, Grade XII
Posted on: 27 January, 2022
An online education is a kind of education that is delivered via the Internet. They are conducted by various small or large learning organizations, in which students can view their course syllabus and academic progress as well as communicate with their course instructor. Due to the ongoing pandemic COVID- 19, the education sector is vastly affected because of the rapid increase in cases. That’s why online classes have been conducted as the alternative solution.
Even in our country Nepal, almost everywhere online classes are being conducted. As the time currently is critical, and we can’t go to our respective schools, with the help of the internet and various apps such as Zoom, Meet our education system is moving forward. We living in urban areas have been getting all the facilities needed for online education but what about the people living in rural areas? We have been hearing about people living in rural areas not being able to take classes due to the poor network. Most of the students don’t have access to the internet. As the online classes are being conducted through the use of various technical aspects, students needs to improved their technical skills so much as we must learn and do almost each assignment through the computer, laptops, or mobiles but students in rural areas don’t have access to any kinds of devices to learn technical aspects as a result, they miss out many classes which is now a serious issue in our country. Sometimes there is power-cut due to several reasons and the houses which don't have an inverter are forced not to take the classes. Budget required for them to buy those items is not enough due to these kinds of problems students are heading to the path of depression. Students in urban areas are way better in technical skills compared to rural area people, students can get ideas from teachers. Due to the lack of communication in friends, students and teachers in online classes students are incapable of working effectively in assignments. In physical
classes due to various activities conducted by the school students used to be fresh and well prepared but the effects are opposite in online classes. During the online classes, the amount of knowledge students can grab is limited due to the certain time limit and lack of internet. As we must stay in front of the computer screen most of the time, it harms our eyesight. Whereas in face-to-face class, we can
interact with our teachers physically, which seems to be more reliable. So, in my point of view Online classes are not effective in comparison to physical but it is better to have something than nothing.
