Is online learning the future of education?

Is online learning the future of education?

No

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That stock photo is so wrong on so many levels,I don't even know where to start.

Teacher here.

I fucking hope not, because most people are terrible at learning stuff, and need personalized coaching with minimal distraction to learn at a decent pace.

I took online school back in high school. If you have ADHD, it might not be the best option.

Plus you also run the risk of becoming a socially inept shut-in because you have no peers.

>future of education being reliance on random youtube pajeets

Fpbp.

Yes according to Trump.

>because most people are terrible at learning stuff, and need personalized coaching with minimal distraction to learn at a decent pace.
It's called homeschooling.

the thing that bugs me the most is the lack of a coaster for that coffee mug.

browser is that?

Homeschooling only really works if there is an effective instructor.

I've dealt with a lot of homeschooled kids (you are not allowed to do homeschooling for 9-12 in my state), and they generally seem better behaved, but are just as inept as the mediocre students who have gone to public school their whole lives, or are worse.

Nah. For you (your brain) to properly register information, the motion of your hands writing shit down on paper or sitting in front of a fleshy interlocutor is still better than pressing buttons. While it cannot replace that, it's a nice complement.

Say you're taking courses online, I strongly advise taking notes on paper and working/learning from there.

just invent memory implant chips and we wont have to deal with education anymore

Let me expand on that: your brain creates new circuitry if it can associate it with a conscious/semi-conscious effort or multiple motor actions on your part. Writing on paper is a complex process that does just that, while typing requires less attention.

I can just slam down my computer and it will produces signs (letters), no matter what, while it's a bit harder to do that with just a pen.

And being able to create "new circuitry" is how memory works in humans. We don't work by creating folders in our heads, we work by arbitrary associations, "muscle memory". That muscle memory implies that for each letter, there's a complex set of motion and feedback that takes places. Replacing paper with keyboards would work best if for each key, there was a different feedback (mechanical keyboards, with a different haptic feeling for every single key).

You're fucking blind, it has one, a very expensive one actually.
What bugs me is the lack of a computer.

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One of the things wrong with the education system is that many seem to think just memorizing suffices as learning.

Memory is the first step. Learning cannot occur without memorization.

But it's not the sole purpose.

always funny when some business degree seeker says "college is so easy" because all the do in class is learn vocabulary. I was watching on of my friends take an online class, and it was literally just him googling words and passing the quiz. I was fuming and still fume pretty bad thinking about it, while I have to take like 3 algebras and 2 calculus classes.