Compared to the past, online education is spreading quickly and it becomes valuable more and more since the COVID epidemic. Generally educating online has merit and demerits. These were discussed by different period.Some people think that physical courses in a university are worth more than online courses, other people think they can compensate for online ones.
The first advantage about online education is that students don’t take the limitations of time and places. it makes it possible to watch offers videos anytime and anyplace freely.Moreover, it is very convenient and innovative for students who couldn’t understand just listening once.Because they can watch videos again and again when they want to.
Secondly, online lectures make the method of grade evaluation brief and clear.For example, by the introduction of Internet on education, the management of students’grade transfer into an online platform. It is easy to check them with their own devices.
However, online lectures have a significant weak point. In perspective of the experience,online learning will be said it is inferior to face to face lectures. For instance the contents of lectures is less memorable for students in order not to learn through communication with teachers and other classmates unlike physical lectures, thus teachers would be only video providers, which caused declining an academic ability of students.In addition, As teachers could not monitor individual students strictly,they mostly give scores based on only the result of reports and exams without attitude to the class.