Transformation of Traditional to Online Education System: Challenges and Driving Forces
Author: Mohammed Aref Abdul Rasheed, Murtaza Farooque, Mohammed Abdul Imran Khan
Category: Human Resource Management
Abstract:
Online or distance education is a relatively unconventional idea. It supports the basic concept of the existence of the learner being in a different location from the source of learning, which can be a book or a teacher, or even a group of students, etc. It gives freedom to education and training to offer programs and courses to the learner at diverse geographical locations. This type of education aims to attract students, who cannot under normal circumstances to continue in a traditional educational program. The research aims to study the traditional and online teaching and learning methods. Literature review from the past research works has been taken into consideration. The results reveal the comparative model consisting more challenges but that there is a positive hope for online education can be applicable to a special category of people with certain conditions.
Keywords: e-Learning, Online Edcation, Traditional Education, Distance Education
