LEAPS Academy Philippines
April 18, 2020
The Online Learning challenge
is yet another Big Break! It is becoming the new normal.
In
2018, our institution started to embark on the online system of learning trying
to be at par with the ongoing platform of the international community on
professional development. This sort of saying that even before the current
state of the pandemic, online learning, long distance, self-directed or
lifelong learning approaches has been going on for a quiet sometime. By the
time the pandemic strike almost all industries, the educational sector was hit
and seen in the dark on how to proceed and keep the business.
How
to do it? How online classes are managed? How do we ensure quality learning
when internet connections are poor and unstable? What are the technicalities
involved? Will it be like a television or movie style where one just watched
and have meals on the side when a TV ad pops up? Is it like social media style
where one can just upload his face and food? These are some of the frequently
asked questions we received when we started our online classes in 2018. And
this is how some members of the academe and students picture an online class
scenario. A clear indication that very few, if not all, are really not ready
for such a development, for such a new trend in education and learning. Even
CHED and DEPED are unclear on this matter. Perhaps even members of the
so-called millennial generation are too blurred to handle this issue.
Reality
check, from our records, reveals that very few are able to manage online
classes. Only few can bear such a privilege. Even among college graduates who
are said to be “professionals” question this educational solution. Many would consider
it equally as an illusion considering incapacities to afford internet access
and the technical know-how to deal with online instructions. Our societal
problems on the provision of basic needs of food and housing is rather a much
more priority among many. This is much a greater challenge on the poorer group
of students.
Exactly
like the government who is overly slow in supplying basic services to the people,
we have a sluggish internet connection, slow and at often times nerve-wracking.
Some colleges and universities must be terribly in the same spotlight,
although, some private academic institutions have better internet connections.
But these few institutions can only address the few capable and the rich. Thus,
this remains to be an issue of both accessibility and quality education.
Yet
the optimists would always say that in any problem, every dreadful incident,
comes great opportunities. Certainly, the pandemic will reshape and change our
way of living. It offers opportunities for the academic sector to bring about
acceptable solutions. While the Philippines may be said to be far flung as
global participant in the educational setting, for sure, online learning
management system will be brought to light and become easier, accessible, and
online classes become the new normal.
As
it is stated therefore, there is no other way for students to cope up and start
to live on long distance learning methodologies. Looking at the new wave of long-distance
relationships (LDR) took its new form, brought by the millennial years; considering
social distancing as a way of life now brought about by the pandemic; we therefore
must now consider online/long distance learning as the new norm in our
educational system. We must embrace such change; we must welcome it as another
great opportunity. Anyway, the Filipino breed of learners is said to be
adjustable to such given situation.
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