Giving lectures in auditoriums to large numbers of students is an
old way of teaching. With the technology available today there is no
justification for it, and everything should be done online. To what extent do
you agree or disagree? Give your own opinion.
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| Classroom lectures or Internet classes |
Education has witnessed
continuous changes since time unknown; and various educationists have
experimented with new innovative ways of educating students. Currently, where
information technology is ruling the roost, more and more people have started
advocating use of online classes to deliver courses because they feel big
lecture rooms and audience have become obsolete.
Large lecture rooms require a
lot of input of money and space, which is not only an expensive exercise, but
also too tedious for many, and to maintain these facilities, varsities need to
incur huge overheads which ultimately are transferred to the students in form
of raised tuition fees and other expenses. Moreover, the educational
establishments also need to admit as many students as possible; and this intent
commercializes education.
On top of that, crowded
classrooms often impede learning process; as more vocal and aggressive students
always tend to take a lead over introverts and silent learners, and in process,
the silent pupils never get a chance to put up questions to their lecturers out
of fear of being mocked at, or being intimidated by louder students. Besides
this, large audience means lot of noise and interference, which eventually
makes the course content unclear and sometimes too tedious to be followed,
whereas, people pursuing online courses get focused attention of their tutors
that is free of any interference and impediments.
However, live classroom
lectures are highly beneficial; as these help the students in many ways, like: pupils
can get a chance to learn from elaborations given by teachers over doubts
expressed by others; and also learn from discussions carried out in classes.
To sum up, I personally feel,
whatever may the case, the live classroom lectures and large audience can never
be superseded by the currently in vogue online sessions.
