Online teaching , also known as distance learning or distance education (EAD), is an education modality through which the use of technology is necessary for it to occur efficiently and impact students of online courses in a positive way.
Online teaching assumes that students and teachers (or tutors, as they are also known) do not need to be in the same physical environment for the learning process to take place. In this case, both are united through an online learning system, also known as LMS or e-learning platform .
In general, online teaching is a new model of learning that has been very successful today due to its many benefits and advantages, such as flexibility of time and space, economy, scalability and because it is a dynamic, innovative and interactive way of learning. consuming new content, as well as proposing a new profile of people with technological advancement.
It is important to realize that people in general have had a very big evolution in the way they relate to each other and this has also profoundly changed education as a whole. Now, in an increasingly virtual world, everything can be solved digitally and the success of online education proves this theory in practice, since its demand only tends to increase every year.
Advantages of online education
The advantages of online teaching are very well defined and easy to understand. Here are the main benefits of online education:
- Time flexibility, since it is possible to study for as long as the student feels more comfortable;
- Space flexibility, since you can access online courses anywhere you have access to the Internet;
- Encourage interaction with other students and distance learning tutors;
- The courses in the online teaching modality are cheaper and generate savings for both the student and those who offer them;
- Dynamism;
- Interactivity.
