In the last few years, the world has experienced a rising surge in online classes. Everyof the key stakeholders- learners, teachers and parents- are appreciating the need to embrace online learning.

The most commonly-used terms in many educational frontiers today are edtech,

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e-learning, Digital literacy, tech-driven education, remote classes etc.

…and you wonder why the surge!

Online classes are so flexible and meet the growing needs of both learners, teachers and parents- who form the key stakeholders- in this digital revolution.

Every school owner needs to understand this and flow along. As a school owner or a district head, have you asked why?

Let me show you why online classes have become the in thing and will remain so in the coming years.

For Learners:

Online classes offers them:

Accessibility from everywhere and at all times: With online class, school children can access learning contents from anywhere in the world.

Self-paced and personalized learning: Learners can now learn at their own pace as well as personalize learning, whichever be their learner group.

The use of digital devices aligns with their digital native status: Today’s learners are of digital natives; hence online classes, which make use of digital devices, make learning interesting to them.

More updated contents: Learning online grants school children access to more updated contents. A lot of what is used today in an offline setting are outdated contents.

Interactive nature of online courses: The use of different multimedia tools in online classes makes it so interactive and appealing to today’s learners. Today’s learners are getting tired of the conventional theory-based rhetoric that characterize offline learning.

Development of relevant skills: Learning online is a form of digital literacy, which helps learners develop relevant skills for the future of work.

Cross cultural interaction in learning: Today’s learners have unlimited access beyond cultural boundaries. It’s now very easy for a student from say, Nigeria to learn from and interact with peers from other parts of the world, without leaving the shores of his/her country.

For Teachers

Online classes offers them:

Connection to the global community of teachers and learners: Teachers can now interact with as well learn from their counterparts from every part of the globe. Today’s teachers now have the entire global citizens as their potential students.

Improving brand visibility: There are quite number of teachers, who are doing great work in their various locations, yet unrecognized and unrewarded. But online classes help to improve their brand visibility as their works are now visible to the world at large.

Improving their 21st century relevance: We are in a digital revolution! This simply means that it takes a teacher being a digital literate to be relevant in today’s educational environment. When teachers teach online, they develop and improve such relevance.

Developing of communication, creative and collaboration skills:Teachers who teach online easily develop communication, creative, critical thinking and collaborative skills, which form the core components of digital literacy.

Time saving and convenience: Online classes are more time-saving and convenient for teachers. It takes less time to prepare and update lesson plans, set and grade students’ assessment tests etc- when teaching online than it is with offline system. Besides, you can always work at your own convenience.

Less stress: When teachers master the right tips for preparing online classes, they begin to enjoy a less-stress educational environment.

So many helpful tools to create online courses: Teachers who teach online have access to unlimited wealth of helpful tools and materials to create their lessons. Most of these tools help teachers to automate their works.

Multipurpose usage of a single course: One thing about online classes is that once you prepare a material for a particular class, you can use the same material- with little or no additional labour- to teach in so many other classes. You can also convert your online class materials to other usage.

Income generation: Today’s teachers should seek for second income options, and one of such easy ways to do this is to convert their digital contents to cash. Every single work a teacher does online can be a source of a lifetime income for that teacher.

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For Parents

Online classes offers them:

Cost saving and convenience: Usually, those who oppose the idea of online classes will always tell you that it’s a costly venture. But those of us in edtech knows that it’s not true. In online classes, parents pay less for more.

Alternative measures in the wake of global crisis like covid-19 pandemic: In the wake of global crisis, like the current Covid-19 pandemic, leading to sudden shut down of schools, online classes remain the best alternative for parents to have their children educated. Aside, Covid-19, there are other imminent global crisis that would force school children to remain at home for long. This is where online classes play a huge part. Parents just love it.

Digital literacy development: When children lean online, they usually do it with the help of their parents at home. Hance, by helping and monitoring their wards, parents get to develop digital literacy skills. This is an added advantage.

Real time assessment of their wards' academic abilities: With online classes, it’s now very easy for parents to assess their wards’ academic abilities, without relying only on the end-of-term report from their wards’ schools. Such real time feedback helps parents to intervene in time where need be.

The world is ripe for online learning. Whether you call it edtech, e-learning, digital literacy etc, the issue is this: we need to all encourage it and work towards improving the lot of online classes.

This is not the time to play the Ostritch as a school owner/manager or district head.

The time is now! Plug into it…

You can do any of these or both:

1.    Get this eBook: Comprehensive Success Guide for Schools in a Digital Revolution