What is the difference between online and offline education? What are the advantages and disadvantages of each?

The development of online education has given more choices for learning. In the past, online classes were still mainly recorded, and after the course content was recorded, the buyers who needed it could buy it and watch it again and again.

But slowly this model is being eliminated, and online live education has become mainstream. However, many parents still have a problem choosing between online and offline education, and how to choose a course for their child should be analyzed according to different children's habits, characteristics, and problems.

The development of online in the past few years is also advantageous and disadvantageous, some of the shortcomings in the past to make up, while the traditional offline education is also optimized, some of the past to form a differentiation has been made up.

Of course, the difference between the two still exists objectively, specifically how to choose, the discussion of the issue can be from the "online and offline advantages", as well as "the situation to choose" two aspects to start.

Online and offline education advantages and disadvantages

Cost Comparison

First of all, the cost issue is not only the cost of money, but also the cost of time should be taken into account. Some parents are willing to invest a lot of money in their children's learning and therefore don't care too much about the cost of the lessons.

Of course this issue still has to be discussed, as far as the general cost of hours is concerned, the cost of hours in online education is lower because the resources of online programs are consumed by a wider audience.

It will not be constrained by the venue as offline teaching is, and the advantage in price is still obvious. Of course, there are also high and low online classes, such as boutique classes, strengthen the class and so on, the cost is relatively high. The overall cost of the online class is superior to that of the offline class," he said.

Money costs, offline will incur additional costs, such as the class place is far away from home, this time some parents will choose to pick up and drop off the child, this period of time generated by the cost of transportation, food and beverage costs, etc. under the accumulation of time is also very considerable. Even if the child is allowed to reach the transportation to go on their own there will be additional costs incurred, offline courses in this regard is also no advantage.

Besides the monetary cost, the cost of time must also be taken into account. For the same 9 a.m. class, students attending an offline course may need to start getting ready at 7 a.m., eating, organizing their things and getting ready to go, and so on.

Taking the same 3-hour course in the morning as an example, the offline class needs to come up with 5 hours, and spend a lot of time on the road, do not rule out that some students will use this time to consolidate their knowledge, but the efficiency of it is also to put a question mark.

Teaching resources

There is also a big difference between online and offline in terms of teachers. The teaching level of the teacher is the key to the child's learning, and the teaching ability of some famous teachers can really make the child get more out of the program, while the local offline education, the choice of teachers is actually relatively limited.

Even if it is another large-scale educational institutions, the number of quality teaching classes of its master teachers is also very limited. Compared to online this problem is very well solved. Online class capacity is much larger, the utilization of resources is much higher, and the expansion will not bring too much impact on the quality of the course.

Learning atmosphere

All of the above comparisons have been made online, but of course the traditional offline education also has a place that can't be replaced by the current online, than the learning atmosphere. The classroom atmosphere is irreplaceable online.

This is also what many parents would question, the child in listening to the online class is distracted, low efficiency, online education will dilute the concept of "classroom", and offline education is easier to focus on.

Teacher-student interaction

Why is teacher-student interaction important? In addition to the child has a question to ask the teacher, the classroom many times the teacher will name the question, in fact, to improve the efficiency of the classroom, because of the name of the "threat", the student's concentration will be stronger.

And then there's the question-and-answer session, which is synchronized with the teaching to make the thinking more fluid, and if some problems aren't solved on the spot, the subsequent sessions may get stuck, leading to subsequent sessions where students can't understand.

Online education teacher-student interaction is optimized, for example, in the live class there is a teacher can see the student's questions, but the problem comes again, an online class a lot of students, the problem of the teacher may not be able to see the teacher in the teacher-student interactivity has never been able to be compared with the traditional online class.

Of course, except for the online boutique class, this kind of class even if the online teaching, the number of people will not be a lot of interaction in the fuller, of course, this way, the price will not be cheap.