The advantages are that the price is relatively cheap; studying at home is convenient, time-saving and safe; the courses are diverse and the range of choices is wider. The disadvantages are poor interactive effects; uneven teaching levels; excessive use of electronic devices affects children's vision, etc.
Advantages of online teaching
The learning method is flexible.
Not limited by space and time. Stay at home, as long as you have an Internet connection, you can accept learning tasks. Choose a good time to study according to your own arrangements.
Resources are presented in diverse forms.
Compared with traditional classroom teaching, online education has many resources and media, which are in line with students' current aesthetic tastes. Dynamic, colorful, and playful. Combined with the learning content, create corresponding situations so that students can learn through play and educate through fun.
Attractive price advantage.
The current online courses are mainly cultural courses and art courses. Compared with physical courses, online courses are much cheaper, and as long as you have an electronic terminal, you can take classes, which is indeed more convenient.
A wider range of choices.
From the training of talents in various subjects to foreign language speaking, music, art, chess, calligraphy, logical thinking, etc., various types of courses are available. A wide variety of online courses provide parents and children with more choices, helping to explore children's interests and talents.
Disadvantages of online teaching
Improper time control has a great impact on students’ vision.
Especially for primary school students, their self-control is relatively poor. Staring at electronic products for a long time can easily lead to serious dependence and cause great damage to vision. If you don’t control your time properly, you may become addicted in the future.
The teaching qualifications are questionable.
In fact, in recent years, traps have indeed occurred when purchasing online courses. For example, some netizens reported that after purchasing one-on-one online classes on a well-known learning application APP, they found that the teachers in the online classes were so poor that they required students to correct their mistakes; in some online class scams, participants not only did not receive guidance, but also faced There is a risk of personal information being leaked; in addition, it is not uncommon to encounter overbearing clauses when purchasing online courses.
There is a lack of interaction between teachers and students.
Teachers’ feedback on academic performance is not timely. Especially students with learning difficulties and introverted students. Even through the terminal, doubts can also be fed back to the teacher. Mainly relies on students' autonomy. As a result, teachers are not sure about the knowledge that students have acquired on the spot. Online education is more like a standard lecture. The teacher sits in front of the computer and teaches, while the students simply listen.
High requirements for the ability to use information technology.
Online education, especially live broadcasting, if teachers rarely use it, then the process of using it will not be easy. Similarly, in the process of accepting learning tasks, some students are not familiar with them and need help from their parents. These are all new problems, which have reduced the effectiveness of online teaching.
The supporting equipment for online teaching is not in place.
In the face of a sudden epidemic, in remote areas and mountainous areas, it is difficult for students to digest online teaching resources. Only direct teaching by teachers is adopted. Due to the constraints of network bandwidth and transmission speed, the transmission of live video data is slow. In addition, teachers are teaching on-site at their own homes, and the equipment is not complete. As a result, the live broadcast data is not smooth, and the phenomenon of lag is prominent, which affects the continuity of learning.