Happy Learning by riding on the wave of Communication

Krishna(example) studies metallurgy, he learns the basics of the subject by one of the biggest names in the area, Professor Ricard O McLasky(example), who teaches in the North Hamburg University(example), Germany, where he has lived all his life. How does Krishna learns from him then, books? Letters or Journals and Papers published by Mr. McLasky ? No, on the contrary, Krishna talks to and sees his prof. every day! Yes, thanks to Online Learning or Virtual Class rooms.

With the advent of instant communication tools such as phone, tv and internet where you can basically disseminate information from one end of the earth to another in seconds, education has become free from all boundaries and had become more accessible than ever before.

These days educators are using a lot of tools to provide the best learning services like Virtual classrooms enabled by Web conferencing, voice and video chat, webinars : online presentations with a shared whiteboard and discussion window for the participants to question and answer, virtual libraries like Safari and Google books plus blogs in which people share their knowledge with the rest of the world.

Accessibility and ease of learning is not the only advantage, apart from being able to anybody being able to learn from anybody, there are many practical advantages like costs on travelling, printing, classroom venue rents to electricity. Also, you have no limit to the number of people you can let join and the number of hours workshops can run.

Lots of universities and colleges around the world are now taking full advantages of advanced communication tools to make their students learn, do their assignments and take exams without any supervision or observation of instructors as it happened in the past. Students get their assignments via emails, any announcements like classroom timings and last minute changes to tuition schedules via Text messages on mobile. Some institutions go further  to create a website and online workspace which server as both virtual library and students workspace and portal where they can manage all education related activities right from registration to exam preparation to publishing exam results and short listing of candidates for future courses.

To summarize, it would be apt to say that advancements in communication technology has really helped the education sector a lot and students and learners are benefitting alike.