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Classroom Learning Disadvantages of online classes

By Mitesh Sharma

29 Jun 2021

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This pandemic has brought hardships in all our lives in one or another way. We all have been experiencing it differently.

For the last 1.5 years, we all are going with this situation. We all know how the whole world is facing a huge problem of lockdown due to Coronavirus. Research has shown that students in online learning performed better than those receiving face-to-face instruction, but it has to be done right. There needs to be proper capacity building of teachers. This is totally new for all of us, as well as for teachers.

During this coronavirus time, as being students, have advantages and disadvantages. Initially Online classes feel better. Where there was a complete change in the situation of the class’s atmosphere. Students enjoyed this period as a vacation. Slowly this affected students' mental health too. Staying away from school, friends, games periods is not easy for children.

Students can use their quality time in studying and the other activities in which they are interested. But I think there are some disadvantages to online classes:

In online classes, the adoption rate is around 50-60% whereas in the classroom the adoption was around 80-90%
Online classes affect the eyes of the students due to long hours in front of the blue screen
Small children like the playschool and the primary grades must not have this type of class because they have low concentration power, and these small kids do not have the ability to sit for a longer time in front of the blue screen
Lots of poor students do not have access to laptops, smartphones, and computers
Students are being given marks by the internals. This may impact their career in the future
Virtual classes also require that students have a reasonable level of technology comfort
Virtual students also commonly miss out on many of the social experiences and interactions traditional students have