Analysis of Online Spaces Addressing Real Challenges in Education

This assignment analyzes the role of online spaces in addressing real-world challenges within the education sector. It highlights the increasing importance of online learning platforms like Google Classroom in overcoming issues such as accessibility, the digital divide, and gender inequality. The paper discusses how online spaces provide educators with tools to create, distribute, and grade assignments, thereby increasing competition and expanding educational opportunities. Furthermore, it explores the initiatives taken by governments to make education accessible to all students, including those in rural areas. However, it also acknowledges the challenges associated with digital technology access, particularly in rural areas, and emphasizes the need for digital inclusion strategies to ensure equitable access to online education for all students. The paper concludes by referencing relevant literature on the topic.

ASSESSMENT 1

Outline an online space and ways in which it can address real challenges
Today due to advancement in technology challenges associated with learning is also
increasing. One of the most common challenge which is being faced by the educators today is
availability of demanded courses to the students in such a manner that they are accessible to the
students. Online space has become of the most powerful thing which has helped educators to
overcome real-life challenges. Online learning space has helped in overcoming this challenge in
an appropriate manner. Google classrooms is one of the most common type of online space
whose use is increasing. Google classrooms is a kind of online space which is mostly used by
teachers creating, distributing, and grading assignments for the students. It is becoming
increasing popular and is being used by educators today easily. These classrooms has not only
worked as a way to overcome traditional learning challenges but it has also threatened educators
who still uses traditional way of education. It has become important for todays educators to focus
on using online space like Google classrooms which not only help them to overcome traditional
teaching challenges but it also increased competition within the market (Billsberry, 2013). It
provides a platform to the educators so that they can provide online assignments to their students
free of cost. Many educators use it as a platform to attract a greater number of students i.e. they
provide free of cost easily accessible assignments to their existing students of students who
enrol. However, most of the top educators are slowly focusing on developing their own online
Space in order to develop their own education delivery system though online space. It has also
helped in reducing social economic status gap within the students. Online Space like Google
classroom has made it easy for all kinds of students to access education such as people who can
access education in both schools and from online space, students who access education at home
only as per their convenience (Harris, Straker & Pollock, 2017). Online of digital space has
helped in reducing this divide among students which was one of the biggest challenge or barriers
for traditional educators. In order to make education freely available to all kinds of students,
even government is taking initiatives to make education accessible to all the people with the help
of such kinds of online space. In many areas there are still people who face gender difference
because of society. Gender inequality is one of the challenges which is faced by education in
traditional way of education. Online space for learning is helping educators to reduce this gender
inequality and bridge the digital gender gap (Mariscal & et. al., 2019). However, it still has some
hurdles or disadvantages especially for rural areas as they do not have easy access to advance
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digital technologies like internet, broadband because of which such kinds of online space is still
disadvantage for rural people as it is a bit difficult for them to access this facility available to
them. For this, educators are required to focus upon digital inclusion strategies to overcome this
hurdle (Park, 2017).
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REREFENCES
Books and Journals
Billsberry, J. (2013). MOOCs: Fad or revolution?.
Harris, C., Straker, L., & Pollock, C. (2017). A socioeconomic related'digital divide'exists in
how, not if, young people use computers. PloS one. 12(3).
Mariscal, J., & et. al. (2019). Bridging the gender digital gap. Economics: The Open-Access,
Open-Assessment E-Journal, 13(2019-9), 1-12.
Park, S. (2017). Digital inequalities in rural Australia: A double jeopardy of remoteness and
social exclusion. Journal of Rural Studies. 54. 399-407.
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