IELTS Writing practice 1

Distance learning via the Internet has developed to such an extent in recent years that teachers and classrooms seem outdated and unnecessary. Schools, colleges and universities should abandon traditional teaching methods and deliver all their courses online. To What extent do you agree or disagree?

Current means of communication, the Internet and social media with the technology improvements of this era have brought new ways of teaching including distance learning, which appears to have an exponential growth grow. But not everything is good about courses online in comparison to traditional methods; both have good and bad things.

The advantages of courses online are numerous. Firstly, distance courses can be given to a wider audience. Students from all over the world may sign up in those classes without having to be physically in the place. Secondly, administrative costs and all costs in general are less than those associated with courses that required a physical place. Schools and teachers do not need a facility to give their classes, even more, those classes could be recorded and taught teach without requiring a teacher to be present. Finally, students and teachers do not need to commute require commuting to take or teach those courses and this means saving money and time.

Although there are many advantages in courses online versus traditional ones, there are also some disadvantages. First, not  no everybody has have the resources to afford an online connection; there are a lot of people in  that on the world that do not have a computer or having it do not have Internet. Second, the quality of courses online could be worse than the one of traditional courses. There are hundreds of courses online that do not have support or are not accredited by anybody, and those contents can mislead the student learning; moreover, online courses could not have teachers available to support and clarify students’ questions. Finally, students would lose the most important component in learning, human interaction. It is widely known that all humans learn in their process of interaction and communication with others.

Concluding, I think both methods, the new and the traditional have good things and bad things and neither of them have absolute truth nor is one hundred percent effective. A good solution would be a method where the good things of the two of them work as complementary, and in that way having online classes with interpersonal physical communication and interaction.

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