Academic Study Skills: Rise of Online Education System and Challenges Faced by Students and Teachers

ACADEMIC STUDY
SKILLS

INTRODUCTION
Academic skills can be defined as the attributes and the strategies which helps a student
to overcome the hurdles and become a better learner. They help a student stay focused towards
their goals and objectives and allows a student to get exposed to new creative thinking skills.
Academic skills such as writing skills, learning skills, communication skills and creative thinking
helps a student to absorb and retain all the information for the future use (Mason, 2019).
Academic skills also helps a student to acquire good grades and also helps in achieving a better
career. Academic Skills helps a student to stay focused for a longer period of time and also helps
in communicating their thoughts better to other students and the teachers. Academic skills are
also important as they help a individual in managing their activities by allocating the time needed
by them (Sera and McPherson, 2019). A student can enhance their academic skills by planning
their activities and projects and by using the feedbacks from their teachers to improve the skills.
For students one of the most important academic skills are researching skills, which helps a
student to complete their assignments and analyse the information. This report is giving a brief
description about the rise of online education system due to the Covid- 19 pandemic. Due to
Covid- 19 pandemic many institutions have adopted online education system as there medium to
provide knowledge to students. Further in this report a reflective essay is also included which
identifies the challenges faced by the students and the teachers while taking online classes, also
the skills used while completing this report have also been mentioned in the essay.
MAIN BODY
TASK 1
Online learning- Online learning is the product of the advancements in the technology which
helps the students to learn over internet from anywhere in the world. It allows the students learn
from their homes while still they can socialize with their friends and family. Online learning is a
technique which helps the students in becoming independent wile discovering many skills and
courses. There are some resources which are needed in online learning like e books, videos,
journals and recorded lectures (Davies, 2022). All these resources are provided by the
institutions according to the courses selected by the student. Online learning is a better source for
the students to manage their time better by properly allocating it to the desired activities. Online
learning offers a variety of courses and programs to the students, which helps them in choosing