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Posted By ITRCeducation Network : 01-MAR-2010

With the advent of new technologies and IT enabled services the arena of education is also breaking its boundaries beyond the premises and the campus. The education is not approaching the home of a individual with all the flexibility of timings and location.
The new era of online education featured with distance learning educations and certification, getting an online education is both a very thrilling proposition and a challenging one as well. It is quite exciting to learn through a very new and non-traditional form of education and it offers a set of new challenges that would compel individuals to really immerse themselves in what they are doing.

Even though this sounds very appealing for an individual who has to avoid certain restriction which was imposed on them in campus. This leads to some new challenges for the institutes, universities, colleges and all involved education business. Some of the challenging factors can be :

With this new educational format as new as online education, the same old problems that plague students would usually crop up.
Students Loosing Motivation :  with the online education system the probability of students dropping out the courses to will be higher. so educationist should always look for means of motivating student for perusing studies rather than opting out to continue studying. This is only possible with student if they are contended with in an online education course. Being alone with no real classmates to act as real-time sounding boards and given the free rein to handle your time it becomes a challenge to really get into the groove of studying. Since online education classes are a new education format, it also does not possess many of the known support systems that we can find inside a traditional school structure. These support systems are what helps keep students motivated. The lack of social interaction can also be a significant contributing factor for online education students easily losing the motivation to study.

Lack of interaction : since there is no real time interactions in a online education system student loose interest in learning. This should be overcome by having online discussion forum which are moderated by someone who is good at it and can handle it predefined forum should always be created and the moderator should be assigned topic wise.
 

Switching: students are not attending classes in campus which means there is no affinity of the student with any physical campus and environment which a student gets when he registers in some university, college, schools. The social activity related with a campus  is negligible or we can say is not existing. the only activity which is available is purely educations. The educationalist should try to provide the best facilities with their online education system since a students will always compare it globally and not just with other educational institutes existing in his town as onlline education campus is not defined by boundaries.