Connecting Rural To Global Through Online Education

The depressing and gloomy state of rural Indian education is not hidden from anyone. It has continued to be a distressing issue for past several decades. Innumerous schemes adopted by various governments also failed to bring a reforming change to the miser ability of the situation. There still remains a colossal hole between the officially accomplished and then to-be-achieved learning objectives.


In such scenario online education can be used as an effective tool to bridge the gap and unlock the challenges. Education in the rural and most remote areas face a lot of hardships like lack of a proper infrastructure, paucity of qualified teachers, willingness of teachers to locate to the remote areas, gender inequality and difficulty in bringing the children to school.E-learning can therefore be deployed as the solution to these problems effectively. 

As per a report, the numbers of internet users are predicted to get doubled by the end of 2018 and the rural users to rise by 40% of the total. Thus identifying the massive potential of online education, India emerges to be the second largest e-learning market globally after U.S.


 Education technology is a storehouse of infinite information. With digitalization, children in the rural areas can get access to varied learning materials. The online portals provide an opportunity to each child in rural areas to pursue worldwide knowledge even if a proper school is not available nearby to them. Flexibility offered by e-learning process makes it possible for even the adults to take their chance on learning and innovating techniques. Reusability of the content is another feature of digital education that makes it as a promising support for children. Visual pedagogy is considered to be the best methods for understanding and grasping knowledge. Online education furnishes never ending data, videos and audios available in different languages to attract and retain the children enhancing their interests in various fields. Children can be guided through experienced and quality teachers through video conferencing sessions and virtual sessions. Moreover through a good learning management system (LMS), the results can also be assessed in minimal time and efforts.

 With Information and Communication Technology (ICT), creating innovating and facile e-learning ways, it has become possible to spread light to the darkest corners of the world. Online Education aspires to be a ray of hope for the entire rural community. Digitalization of education is surely empowering the rural India removing the bottlenecks affecting their progress. 

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