Types of Distant Learning in the Society

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Distant Learning
For years, distant learning has been around. The explosion in web- and mobile-based platforms, applications and devices has made possible instant communication between millions in a matter of seconds. Tapping into Internet capabilities, each and every industry has invested in, or at least made a few steps into, online communication innovations. Similarly, education, long confined in physical classrooms, has identified in distant learning an invaluable opportunity to revolutionize education in every imaginable way. In contrast to conventional learning and education methods, distant learning has come reshape how administrators, educators, and learners engage in a unique education experience unprecedented in human history. By offering content for learners instantly and at much affordable cost, distant learning has gradually started to replace conventional learning methods and practices in classrooms. This change, as for any changes, has not come, however, without skepticism, if not outright resistance. In downplaying importance of distant learning, naysayers offer extended list of reasons distant learning can never replace conventional classroom learning. The reasons, discussed in detail, emphasize an inevitable instructor-student relationship. That is, instructors and students must interact face-to-face in physical learning settings in order for learning to be effective. This argument, informed by many supporting arguments as shown later, is at best misleading and at worst substantially flawed. Indeed, distant learning, I strongly believe, will replace conventional classroom learning
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in many ways. I use “many ways” to emphazie that despite distant learning assuming more and
more grounds in major educational and learning organizations, conventional classroom learning
is not going to disappear completely. Instead, distant learning, given current and expected
developments, will be a dominant form of learning in upcoming decades. I argue in current
essay, accordingly, for a learning future informed by distant, or remote, modes of learning whose
developments will continue to shape learning experiences and make conventional classroom
learning increasingly ineffective. This reflection essay is a pro distant learning argument
made more powerful by current evolving differences COVID-19 is increasingly
accentuating between an earlier world defending face-to-face and physical education at all
costs and for prestige and a second world, now in development, making distant learning an
everyday fact of life in classroom and beyond.
Consider current global landscape. Millions are now having an involuntary stay-at-home life. COVID-19, or Coronavirus, has made millions move online to work, communicate, play – and learn. Needless to say, million students now are using personal or provided computer or mobile devices to perform a range of educational activities. This applies to virtually everyone: from KG to graduate school students. Tapping into capabilities developed over years, million of students worldwide now are using distant learning methods to do assignments, debate presentations, submit papers...