THE situation regarding heavy college luggage in addition to the unfold of Covid-19 in academic clusters within the nation can simply be resolved with the implementation of on-line studying processes.
In latest days, we now have been made conscious of heavy college luggage amongst college students.
The problem has raised a deep concern amongst mother and father and guardians because it involvs the well being and security of their youngsters. That is hardly a brand new downside in Malaysia.
The problem has been raised many instances even earlier than the Covid-19 pandemic started.
Nonetheless, no concrete options have been put ahead to resolve this downside, which in flip has resulted within the situation being introduced up as soon as once more.
The time has come for everybody to just accept the truth that our world has modified in some ways.
The arrival of the Covid-19 pandemic in early 2020 has modified individuals’s lives globally.
The lives of scholars in colleges and universities has additionally modified.
College students have begun adjusting themselves to new norms and life, together with the training course of, by utilising and adopting expertise.
Using expertise removes the necessity for heavy college luggage fully as college students simply must have a tool and web extra to hold out their studying.
Unsurprisingly, we now have not heard complaints about heavy college luggage when on-line studying was carried out in 2020 and 2021.
It was once we began opening colleges and permitting face-to-face interplay early this 12 months that the difficulty reared its ugly head.
On the similar time, one should not overlook that the variety of Covid-19 circumstances, particularly involving academic clusters within the nation, remains to be very excessive and a fear to many.
Is it clever to ask our college students to go to varsities and universities to face the excessive danger of an infection?
All these points might be resolved if we return to the net course of.
The federal government by the Schooling Ministry and Greater Schooling Ministry ought to draft a complete plan to make on-line studying in our colleges and universities a part of our training coverage, and to make them totally and completely carried out as it might provide many advantages to everybody within the training sector, particularly college students.
Although the plan to utilise on-line studying has been developed over the previous few years and carried out in some colleges and universities, it has not been totally carried out and utilised.
It was solely when dealing with a dire scenario such because the Covid-19 outbreak and the federal government’s enforcement of the motion management order forcing colleges and universities to shut that everybody was pressured to make use of those trendy instructing and studying strategies.
On-line studying has many benefits, particularly for college kids.
Among the benefits embrace course materials accessibility, versatile scheduling, extra educational choices and the chance to construct invaluable expertise.
On-line studying is a well-liked various to bodily attending a brick-and-mortar room in class or college.
Whereas not each course or topic has a web-based possibility, numerous them do and lots of of those programmes are internationally and nationally accredited.
On-line training permits for the attendance of sophistication so long as the coed has entry to the web.
On-line studying is, in lots of circumstances, out there 24 hours a day, seven days every week, so college students can take part in lessons at any time when it’s most handy.
They will additionally select between quite a lot of scheduling choices.
Whereas some programs are carried out synchronously requiring college students to attend on-line periods at particular hours others are self-paced, permitting college students to finish assignments in their very own time.
Financially, college students can also lower your expenses, since some on-line programmes value much less per credit score hour and there aren’t any transport and meal bills.
On-line studying additionally gives alternatives for people to construct invaluable life {and professional} expertise.
The net studying course of may also help college students enhance their time administration expertise and enhance their stage of self-discipline.
Primarily based on these advantages, the fashionable technique of instructing and studying needs to be the best way ahead for our training sector.
The federal government ought to place extra emphasis on this by making on-line studying a everlasting a part of our training system by the approaching funds announcement.
More cash must be allotted on this space of training so that everybody can have entry and totally utilise this contemporary mode of training.
Our academics, lecturers and college students in colleges and universities have to be given sufficient services and coaching as a way to make on-line studying a everlasting actuality and never simply for use or utilised throughout an emergency or when confronted with a pandemic.
Muzaffar Syah Mallow is a senior lecturer of College of Syariah and Regulation at Universiti Sains Islam Malaysia (USIM). Feedback: letters@thesundaily.com