Choosing The Right Type Of Tool For Online Teaching

Posted by: lukwago J in Education March 6, 2022

The online education system has been the system that has facilitated teaching and learning during the hard and tough times of the COVID-19 pandemic. Online teaching has proven beneficial in various ways not only for the students but also for the teachers. Many professionals from various fields also ventured into teaching and made their debut in the education industry during this phase and started teaching online. An online classes app or an online course app was the tool that helped ensure that everyone who had knowledge and experience and wished to share the same with students for their benefit had access to teach and create online courses and lecture series.

While professionals who had been in the field of education for years and been associated with a school or college or any other type of educational institution could easily find the right tools for teaching online depending on what was the option chosen by their institution, people who were not professionally tutors and part of the education industry faced some problem while trying to find and choose the best tools for online teaching and sharing their knowledge.

The online education system paved the way for different types of learning and teaching tools to be created and launched over the period of last two years. Online classes and online courses that were created and conducted were available on a variety of platforms and also different tools were used for different subjects, topics and purposes. With this variety available it can very easily get confusing for the tutors and educators to choose the right platform that helps them reach the right audience who needs their course and course content.

There still are many more people who are willing to start teaching online and will be looking forward to finding the right tools for the same. This article will be helpful for all our readers who are either teachers or are looking forward to starting their online teaching careers. In this article, we will be sharing with you the different ways of conducting an online class and teaching online. At the end of this article, you will be able to make an informed choice while choosing the type of online teaching tool and the mode of teaching.

Online classes are mainly of two types. The two types of online classes can further be classified into various sub-types or be conducted using different types of platforms, apps and websites. The two types of online classes are live classes and video-based classes. Both these types of online classes are beneficial for different types of courses like this course and subjects and also depend on the course creator or teacher and the target audience or students for the same.

Live classes are conducted in real-time. These classes are more commonly conducted by teachers who are employed in a school or a college or any other type of educational institution. These classes can also be conducted for online courses of different types. Online live classes can be conducted using an online classroom app that allows video conferencing or video meetings, a video meeting platform and a live video streaming platform. Online video conferencing platforms for live classes are more suitable when there is less number of students and the link to join the class can easily be shared with everyone. In such classes, teachers and students can also interact in real-time. Classes on live video streaming platforms are useful for when there are a large number of students who have to attend the class and it is practically impossible to share information individually. The only downside of live classes using video meeting platforms is that everyone needs to be present in the virtual space at the same time and follow a specific schedule.

Pre-recorded video-based lectures or classes offer a solution to the problem of following the same schedule as everyone and offers more flexibility. This type of online class is especially used for online courses that are offered by tutors and professionals from across the globe and allow the students to study and learn from anywhere and at any time. An online course is a great tool for teaching online using the pre-recorded video-based method and can be created on a variety of platforms. Real-time interaction is often not possible in this type of class.

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