I work in Distance Education at a major university (well I guess it’s called Digital Education now since even the in-person courses use it too) so you have no idea how happy it makes me to read this 😀
I do find it ironic that this never even occurred to me with respect to home schooling … duh!! I’m in IT so this pedagogy thing is for those other people right? 🤣
I think it really depends on the situation. If you’re tech savvy enough and have good enough internet to use Zoom and video playback sites, you might learn well that way. Especially if you can actually get more helpers / educators per student than in person for the live sessions. But most of what I’ve seen said that during COVID pretty much all pre-college students suffered with online learning. I don’t know if it’s a learning style thing, or what - but while I feel like I’ve learned things from like TLC, youtube and other online video education, I never felt I learned as much as when I was actually in a classroom where I could directly interact with the teacher. So I’m a little leery of the “watch recorded classes” idea as being all that useful for many people.
I work in Distance Education at a major university (well I guess it’s called Digital Education now since even the in-person courses use it too) so you have no idea how happy it makes me to read this 😀
I do find it ironic that this never even occurred to me with respect to home schooling … duh!! I’m in IT so this pedagogy thing is for those other people right? 🤣
I think it really depends on the situation. If you’re tech savvy enough and have good enough internet to use Zoom and video playback sites, you might learn well that way. Especially if you can actually get more helpers / educators per student than in person for the live sessions. But most of what I’ve seen said that during COVID pretty much all pre-college students suffered with online learning. I don’t know if it’s a learning style thing, or what - but while I feel like I’ve learned things from like TLC, youtube and other online video education, I never felt I learned as much as when I was actually in a classroom where I could directly interact with the teacher. So I’m a little leery of the “watch recorded classes” idea as being all that useful for many people.