ONLINE EDUCATION IS NOTHING BUT A TALE

Shocked? That’s what you are thinking? What is the means of this entire venture when I give a topic like this? Is online education really a myth? Is it nothing because no one can see it? A fraud? A trick to fool people? If it is so then what is the online gag going on every where over the internet? Any search query yields thousand of website given info on online education, providing articles, offering assistances, fee solutions, providing consultations, enrolling students etc. There must be some truth to it. Well YES there is truth to it. ONLINE EDUCATION EXISTS. It not only exists but is also continuously facilitating thousands and thousands of people all over the globe.

Then why am I writing this article? Anyone one of us who uses the internet, knows how to search, is very well aware of the existence and importance of online education. This article of mine is especially for the still dwelling numerous amount of people who strongly believe that online education doesn’t exist. It is there strong acceptance that there is nothing beyond the traditional school, colleges and Universities we have been going to since years. For them anything that has no concrete solid existence is not present at all. They believe in the non existence of any online institution because they can’t see any classroom. There are no campuses, buildings where students go and study. The teachers are not present in front of them. They are not ready to believe the existence of any such thing which is not physically available to them. They strongly accept the fact that if a university is not teaching in a classroom it is not teaching at all. This may seem as a joke to most of us. But such people are still present in our environment.

The purpose behind this article is to make them aware that online education is as much real as the traditional ways of imparting education. One argument they have in mind is that when they access the website of any such online institution they can’t see teachers teaching and students learning. The reason behind this is privacy and prevention of fraudulent activities. Every tutor teaching online is the employee of the organization and each student has paid the fees before he got enrolled. It is the responsibility of the authorities to ensure that each student is being taught and assessed properly by the tutor. They have to check that tests and exams are taken in a fair environment and the grading process is clean and accredited.

In order to do this every student and each tutor is assigned a unique ID, LOGIN and password. These terms may seem new to people who are not much aware of the internet. ID is the identification number for each student and teacher. This is unique for everyone and student/ teachers are identified by their ID instead of their names. Login and password can be termed as a set of keyhole and key, again unique to every student and tutor. This ensures that only the enrolled student and assigned tutor has access to the teaching area, tests and records. These measures are taken to prevent unauthorized and wrong persons from accessing those areas. As all education and exams are taken online thus it is very vital that only the enrolled student attends classes and gives the tests etc.

We live in a high tech world which has globalized to a large extent. Something that cannot be seen physically is not bound to be non-existing. Online education does exist and the reason it is not accessible without ids and passwords is to protect the records and privacy of both the tutors and the students.