I graduated and these are the differences I found in education

In all my years of studying which important features I can differentiate from online to face-to-face classes?

Have you ever considered learning something new but don’t know where to take the course? Online education is an innovative way of learning and teaching that adapts to different levels and studies. While the traditional education that has taught us to learn face to face focuses more on the presence of its students. In Ecuador alone, it is estimated that in the last year more than 10,000 people began a university career online, while face-to-face education lost strength due to the pandemic. In addition, many educational institutions were slow to implement plans to know how to cope. Although both online and face-to-face education helps people learn new things, they have striking differences and I want to mention the three more important.

The ease of managing the class

The first is the way people manage their time in online and face-to-face learning because is not always the same for everyone, all have different situations about handling time and responsibilities. In online education, we know that freedom of time and progress is essential, and of course with online learning, people have total control over their learning in this regard. The student can reread the course modules and consult the available online resources. Like ebooks, audiobooks, online tutorials, external links, etc. This flexibility makes it possible for people to learn at their own convenience and ability. While on the other hand, we have the face-to-face modality, in which you can only experience the class once, there is no way to repeat the same knowledge or moment in the course, everything is unrepeatable and you manage according to the progress of the class. class and course path.

The effectiveness of teaching methodologies

The second difference is the effectiveness of teaching in online classes compared to face-to-face classes, the two models have different ways of measuring it and of how to check if the classes are being carried out in the best way. Online education came to break schemes in the way an educator teaches her students. Here we can analyze the difference between transmitting knowledge versus facilitating learning. In face-to-face classes, teachers generally only teach knowledge, and this can happen due to many factors, for example, time. Thus, after understanding the information, a test is carried out that evaluates the knowledge acquired among the students. On the other hand, in online learning, the figure of the teacher is closer to that of information facilitators. In this way, they help their students to understand the topics through the online resources provided. In the case of online education, the student is the one who must assimilate the knowledge by himself, while the teacher or tutor acts as a help for this to happen.

In face-to-face classes, there is not a great knowledge of a benefit such as e-learning, which is only adaptable to an online class. The difference lies in the fact that face-to-face learning always has restrictions on the number of students it can reach, online education allows content to be reproduced and shared with as many people as needed. This same social and collaborative learning allows participation in online discussion forums, in addition to allowing sessions in a virtual classroom, attaching electronic books and other media. This can help develop engaging sessions and can extend learning beyond the formal course setting.

Bureaucracy in institutions

And the last difference is how the two methods of education are handled administratively and allow the student to develop better and faster. In educational institutions, there are bureaucratic processes that students do not always understand and are in favor of and delay in different ways. In face-to-face education can see how all the decisions of the first command have to always reach the head of the institution with a lot of time involved and extreme bureaucracy, regardless of the users affected by this time and its collateral damage.

Many studies have shown that the dropout rate for online education is much lower than that of traditional in-person students. Online learning increases access and makes it more likely that a student will be able to complete a course or program. Eliminating barriers such as spatial limitations, travel difficulties, lack of time, and educational costs. I see educational institutions will adapt more to the student, thinking about the needs of and putting him at the center of the experience, and not so much focusing on what is easier for them. But even their processes do not allow them to do so for three main reasons: Creating new methodologies for student care, training time for them, and the government control by which they are governed. These are years away from being able to change and being able to influence the society that they have actually made a change. Unlike online studies, which have departments totally dedicated to their students, they know that they are not governed by a system that forces them to finish their classes, and the percentage that a student completes their course is their main metric.

To conclude, it is clear that there are benefits that in either of the two options can influence you to think that they are better options, but you have to know how to distinguish between one advantage and one disadvantage, over the other to know which one is better suited to your life. At the end of the day, it does not matter what you learned, with whom, or in which university you saw it, it will always matter what you do with that knowledge and how that positively influences society.

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