A Report on Online Learning: Statistics and ICT Skills Analysis

This assignment provides a comprehensive analysis of online learning, leveraging basic statistics and ICT skills to evaluate its impact. The report begins by introducing the significance of statistics and ICT in modern learning environments, particularly highlighting the surge in online education during the COVID-19 pandemic. It delves into the positive impacts of online learning, such as increased efficiency, accessibility, affordability, enhanced attendance, and personalized learning styles. Conversely, it addresses the negative impacts, including challenges related to focus, technology issues, sense of isolation, educator training, and improper screen time. The conclusion emphasizes the vital role online learning plays in contemporary education, summarizing its advantages and disadvantages. References to various research articles are included to support the analysis and findings, making it a well-rounded exploration of the subject. This and similar assignments are available as resources for students on Desklib.

Basic Statistics and ICT Skills

TABLE OF CONTENTS
 Introduction
 Main Body
 Online Learning
 Positive impact
 Negative Impact
 Conclusion
 References

INTRODUCTION
 The basic statistics is a way to describe the data and information of the particular
component.
 It helps and support the valid collection of data to evaluate and recognize the business
structures. In a business or activity ICT skills play a vital and important role in the
individual life.
 It is a computer programming concepts which includes the different software and
application which can help in various departments. In this context, the report will illustrate
the online learning areas and its importance in the daily life.
 In addition, the report will also describe the pros and cons of the online learning which will
make an individual to understand in the better and effective manner.

Online learning
 Nowadays, in this rapid growing world the technology is developing in the effective
manner.
 With the support and help of technology or ICT skills the world is able to increase and
enhance their activities, education and business at accurate level.
 ICT skills stands for Information Technology which is playing a major role in the
development of the universe. Similarly, this ICT skills involves the internet things which is
helping an individual person in different and various ways.

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 The online learning helps multiple people during the pandemic such as
students, entrepreneurs and small business people.
 Online learning mostly helped the students to learn their education ad
knowledge which is important for their future career and progress.
 During covid19, the schools and colleges are closed due to lock-down
activity which makes the educator to start the online learning for the
students and learner.

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 Along with this, the application and software
whether it is language apps, virtual touring or video
conferencing tools helps the education system to
provide the lessons in the fruitful manner.
 In the Covid19, the online learning platforms such as
BYJUS has seen and observed the increase of 300%
in the number of new students utilizing the
application and learning courses.
 These online learnings also increases and improved
the internet searching and utilizing activities which
will be beneficial in the future plans.

Positive impact
 Efficiency : During the covid19 times, online learning has been proved very effective and
also provided an excellent result of the students. Teacher or educator mostly have the
positive impact on their teaching skills and able to enhance them effectively.
 Accessibility : The major problem in the pandemic is the lock down activity which make
people and students to be bounded in the geographical area. The online learning has given
the advantage to the students to take the classes and lesson from any particular area
without any restriction.
 It also allowed the school management to approach the students in the excessive manner.

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 Affordability : The third advantage is demonstrating the
affordability sector. The online learning helps many of the
people by financial terms and can be able to continue their
education.
 In the pandemic, it is already impacted the financial growth of
the particular area and individual where the online learning
helps and reduces their expenses of student transportation, meals
and most importantly the real estate.
 Enhanced Attendances : On the regular basis, students are not
able to go school and colleges due to any kind of reason whether
sickness or any event but with the online learning session
students are able to join the classes from any location which
increase the attendances of an individual.

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 Learning Styles : Each and every student and learner has its
own learning style which makes them to adopt the
information rapidly. Most of the students are able to learn
from listening an audio voice from which they can learn
easily and faster but on other side some of them are visual
learners.
 Some people are friendly and like the atmosphere to learn
together while some get distracted and disturbed from the
group studies.
 Online learning is the best way to balance the both situations
accordingly and can create a perfect learning surrounding
which is suitable of needs of an individual student.

Negative impact
 Inability to focus : Online learning has impact on the students as one of the biggest
challenge is to struggle due to inability to focus. Students get easily distracted by the other
online sources such as social media and other researching things which makes them to not
concentrate on the lessons.
 Technology issues : It is already known that technology is the vast platform which is
utilized by every individual in this rapid growing world but still in some villages areas and
smaller cities or towns the speed of internet is slower which is the biggest problem facing by
the students of the small towns.
 The internet connectivity and speed can cause the bad impact on the educators and students
both as well which creates a huddle in learning structure.

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 Sense of isolation : At the school and colleges, the physical appearance of individual and
teachers makes the effective result. Learning from online platform reduces the physical
interaction between each other which causes a sense of isolation to the students.
 For decreasing the isolation sense, teacher and students can utilize the email, messages and
video conferencing equipment's which enable them to face-to-face conversation process.

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 Educator training : The sudden utilization of technology,
many teachers and educators do not understand and able to
conduct an online session for the students.
 It is not important that each and individual person should
know the understanding of technology and its tools or
resources which makes an obstacle in conducting the
online learnings. The school and college administration
should provide a training sessions to the teacher which
enable them to conduct an online class.
 Improper Screen time : It is obvious that people are more
concerned about the health hazards of their children.
Accordingly, the students and children mostly spending
their time in front of the screen which impacted their
eyesight's.

CONCLUSION
 In this report, it has been concluded that online learning played a vital role in an individual
life.
 In this report, the importance of online learning has been performed which also includes its
advantages and disadvantages.
 Online learning can be effective for the students and allows them to obtain good results in
their examination which enable them to grow in their future.

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