https://prepai.in/blog/advantages-and-disadvantages-of-elearning/ Remote learning stemmed from the requirements arising from sudden or unexpected events, like snowstorms, scheduled absences, or any other emergency situation rendering students and teachers unable to come for the regular classes. Mostly confused with online teaching, remote teaching essentially moves the educational content to an online space and there are little or no discussion boards, group work, assessments, etc. Online teaching, on the other hand, comprises interactive modules and assessments based on real-life scenarios and discussion forums for discussing and solving problems. The lectures are not recorded and the sessions are synchronous and involve problem discussion and resolution. Hence, there is a subtle and significant difference between both the terms, despite them being used interchangeably by people these days. Recent studies predict exponential growth in the global e-learning market and the market valuation to sit above 370 bn USD by 2026. While the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has a major role in driving this growth, remote learning has been there prior to the pandemic as well. However, remote teaching comes with a lot of challenges that not only affect the quality of teaching, but also the overall experience for both – the educators and the students.

1. 7 Surefire Tips for
Remote Teaching
MAKE LEARNING ENGAGING

2. What Are the Common
Challenges Faced During
Remote Teaching?

3. In remote teaching, the students study away from the regular classroom environment. This
isolated setting comes without the perks and advantages of learning in a classroom, such
as a peer competition, mutual motivation, and learning by the example of the other
students. Many times, the average students take instantaneous help from the other
students present in the class, instead of interrupting the lecturer.
Peer-to-peer learning has many advantages, such as enabling knowledge sharing among
the students in a comfortable setting. Also, obtaining knowledge from a peer is much less
intimidating as compared to the teacher and comes without inhibitions or a general
feeling of embarrassment, which average students have.
While seeking help from a classmate, the students exhibit an unmistakable willingness to
learn from their mistakes that improves the overall learning experience in the collaborative
setting.
1. Isolated Learning Comes Without the Perks of
Peer-Learning

4. Limited human contact, muted body language, and an overall lack of authority and
presence in the remote teaching amount to a lack of motivation among the students.
Their main aim becomes just sitting through the lecture and completing the session with
as little participation as possible, especially if they are weak in their studies.
Further, every student has different learning and understanding abilities and might find
the restrictive remote teaching to be less engaging and mundane. This, in turn, also
affects their urge to learn and participate actively in the classes.
2. Lack of Motivation

5. Not every academic institution has the budget, resources, and technical talent to use
smart and engaging Learning Management Systems and solutions to enhance the quality
of remote teaching. Further, once the teachers have covered a topic in class, the testing
process is also mundane in remote teaching.
It is extremely easy for the students to cheat or cite network issues for not turning the
camera on and making someone else take the test.
Further, the teachers are not able to make the evaluation process fair, engaging, and
relevant to every student in the class.
While there are many innovative and smart EdTech tools, such as the PrepAI question
generator that help you create impeccable tests within minutes, the overall availability
and use of such advanced learning solutions are still very low.
Even if the teachers have access to some kind of learning management tools, the lack of
expertise in using the same and choosing improper software makes the learning
experience poor and less rewarding.
3. Lack of the Right Software Solutions

6. A physical classroom is a teacher-led learning environment where they can train or
teach the students in multiple different ways. They can also judge from the facial
expressions of the students if they are understanding a tough concept properly or not. If
required, they can show live demonstrations and reinforce students’ understanding of the
“visual” element.
Now, you might think – “Teacher can show the demonstration videos in the remote
classes”, and you are not wrong!
However, there are many interactive courses and topics, such as lab experiments,
interactive activities, controlled environment demonstrations, etc. that are best taught in
physical classes.
4. Poor Training Content For Interactive Courses

7. Remote teaching relies on the basic hardware and software infrastructure, such as
computers, smart devices, decent internet connection, etc. Now, all the students might
not have the required infrastructure with the same quality. This can affect the overall
learning experience and can spur a feeling of discord and low morale among the
students.
Further, the incidents such as power failures and internet outages can deteriorate the
entire day’s learning, leaving students with no way to compensate for the absence from
the class.
Also, there have been cases where the teachers were not able to use the teaching or
meeting software properly, which affects the overall learning quality.
Teachers don’t know how to position the camera, how to highlight the content, or how to
properly use the online collaboration software to facilitate an engaging online learning
experience.
5. Technical Challenges

8. Tips for Remote Teaching:
Making it Flawless and
Engaging

9. Teachers have to ensure that they are “available” instead of being merely “present”
during the session. They have to invest proper effort to convey the idea of being available
for doubts, reiterations, or discussion during the online session.
They can encourage this by asking some students questions, or keeping some time
reserved specifically for query resolution. Or, they can keep one class for doubt resolution
each week.
They can also opt for a more natural and less formal way of teaching to make the online
teaching engaging as well.
1. Be Available

10. Right as the teachers prepare material for remote teaching, they need to spend some
effort in enhancing their learning and understanding of the software or platform they are
using. The teacher can also share some hacks to effectively leverage the technology
platforms for an active interest in the topic being taught.
In fact, they must have an introductory session for the students as well, where they can
demonstrate the various controls and their use. This will not only minimize the confusion
during the class but also reduce the time wastage because of searching for the right
control or feature.
2. Focus On Technical Learning

11. EdTech tools and platforms are changing the world of education, and remote teaching is
also experiencing the waves of this change. Using EdTech tools for writing on a notepad
to simulate the blackboard writing, illustrators, online teaching sources, and special
academic learning tools, enhance the quality of learning.
Apart from making the sessions engaging and interactive, these platforms also improve
the dynamic progress tracking by gathering detailed student data. The teachers can
measure the performance in a better manner and make the learning process more
efficient.
EdTech tools and platforms also make the sessions more personalized and improve the
collaboration among the peers as well. Hence, they can make the overall remote
teaching experience more fulfilling, rewarding, and measurable.
3. Leverage EdTech Tools

12. Feedback is a crucial and reliable way to ensure quality in a remote teaching setting. The
teachers can gather proactive feedback about the teaching experience and the students
can also be offered feedback regularly to keep them motivated.
However, merely collecting feedback is not going to do the job, as the teachers and
students need to work on the feedback to overcome the disadvantages.
For example, if a teacher is getting negative feedback for mundane teaching, they need
to work on their teaching skills and compile interesting sessions.
Likewise, once a teacher has handed out the individual feedback, he must question the
students about their reactions and what they plan to do about improving their
performance in the future.
Further, feedback must be an ongoing process to ensure better quality.
4. Provide Ongoing Feedback

13. Personalized assignments for specific student groups
Family involvement
Using online education resources for getting better assignment ideas
Assignments must be relevant and optimized as per the online teaching setting. Give
unique assignments, such as reading specific stories and then discussing the moral
issues, and underlying questions in them. Give case studies that encourage the research
and reflective aptitude of the students.
Instead of giving piles of writing assignments that need to be shared as images, it is
better to share analytical or problem-based assignments that educate better.
Some other tips to make assignments relevant to online teaching are:
5. Make Assignments Relevant to Remote
Teaching

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