How Remote Teaching is Shaping The Future

Written By Colēgia

Remote teaching is seeing new heights in our current educational climate and for good reason too. It can be a great method to foster student engagement along with rethinking how we view education. Today we want to delve into how remote teaching is shaping the future.

“Remote teaching is seeing new heights in our current educational climate and for good reason too.”

Accessibility And Affordability

It's no secret that one of the greatest strengths of remote teaching is the inherent ability to be able to reach more students. With an overall cheaper barrier of entry compared to other forms of learning, remote teaching can give opportunities to those in economic need. Remote teaching can let teachers cover a much wider audience than a traditional classroom largely in part to not requiring a physical space to hold the class. This can cut down on costs along with streamlining the process to only require a computer, webcam, and headset for both students and teachers. Course assignments can also be distributed electronically which can cut down on printing costs along with convenience.

“It’s no secret that one of the greatest strengths of remote teaching is the inherent ability to be able to reach more students.”
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Engagement

Student engagement can be a large challenge for many teachers but thankfully remote teaching can help. Given that many students are technologically inclined in this era, remote teaching naturally helps gear them toward this. Teachers can help promote more engagement by offering various activities the class can participate in such as screen-sharing educational videos that are relevant to the discussion. This can also be done with various assignments as well such as a teacher reviewing a student’s essay and giving live feedback on how to improve. Helpful features for classes such as zooms group chat option can let students participate while keeping the flow of the lecture. These conveniences can make remote teaching fun for both sides along with fostering greater interest in class sessions and making it more active.

“Given that many students are technologically inclined in this era, remote teaching naturally helps gear them toward this.”
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Providing a Positive Environment For Learning

One aspect of remote teaching that can truly make a difference for students is that it can promote a safe space for learning. An issue that several schools struggle with can be that the physical location can be either far away for students and staff or may have a negative stigma associated with it. Remote teaching can help both parties focus on the fundamentals which is the classroom environment, learning, and establishing healthy habits for school. Gone are the days where students need to stress being able to make it to their class on time. Remote teaching gives students access to their classes at the palm of their hand with options to tune into school on their laptop. It can also let both students and teachers do their work from the comfort of their home while having all the amenities that go along with that.

“it can promote a safe space for learning.”
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A Sustainable Future

Remote teachings popularity has thrived in our current environment and we've seen some changes that could make certain aspects of it transfer to traditional schooling. Between the flexibility along with cultivating positive habits and environments, we're excited to see the future of remote teaching.

“Remote teachings popularity has thrived in our current environment”

Colēgia

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