The modern technologies which are available to the current generation made the concept of seminars to a huge number of
students
in auditoriums an outdated concept and have no reason for organising it anymore. My essay agrees with
this
statement. In my opinion, the benefits of online teaching are more when compared with traditional
auditorium
education.
Firstly
, educating
students
in an
auditorium
involves several challenges
such
as maintenance cost of the room, gathering
students
, transportation cost and time, few
students
may miss the
lecture
due to different reasons and lose the opportunity of attending it completely, and
moreover
, teaching becomes more complex to the teacher especially dealing with a large student group at a time.
For example
, consider a
seminar
is planned for science
students
in New York city of the USA,
then
it is expected to have high
auditorium
charges due to the demand of the city, and people who are interested to attend from different places have to travel to New York which is time-consuming and may be expensive to few people based on the distance they have to travel, many international
students
may miss the change of attending the
seminar
, and even though
seminar
hall is huge, definitely there will be a limit to the number of
students
based on the hall capacity and ultimately many
students
have to drop the
lecture
.
This
shows that the old fashioned seminars are no more useful now.
Secondly
, online lectures do not require any space for gathering the
students
, the cost involved is less when compared with
auditorium
lectures, no limit to the number of
students
for the
seminar
, no transportation is required, and the main advantage is the
lecture
can be recorded and played multiple times, that means if anyone missed attending the
lecture
or failed to understand the certain concept can revisit the recorded teaching whenever they want.
Moreover
,
this
lecture
online will be available to the
students
in different geographical locations which means that knowledge sharing is easier on online platforms when compare with seminars conducted at some physical locations.
For example
, a video made on Java programming in Canada is available and easily accessible to the
students
in Africa or India at any time.
This
means online teaching is more flexible and reachable to the
students
when compared with
auditorium
classes.
In conclusion, lectures that take place in large auditoriums have now had no value when compared with modern web learnings. I totally agree with
this
point and I believe that online teaching is the most effective and easy way of sharing knowledge with a large group audience.