Online education is becoming more and more popular. Some people claim that e-learning has so many benefits that it will replace face-to-face education soon. Others say that traditional education is irreplaceable. Discuss both views and give your opinion.

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technology influences the
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field,
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as the popularity of online learning. Currently, online learning is mushrooming everywhere and
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a pro and con. Some people believe that
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type of
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brings enormous benefits and will replace traditional
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. Meanwhile, the rest of them claim that face-to-face learning is irreplaceable. In my opinion, e-learning is simple and easy to
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, but
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replace face-to-face
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because it can offer physical activities,
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to all places and
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also
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more interactive. To
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with, online learning has
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since a couple of years ago, and
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more popular when the pandemic of
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COVID-19
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came, in 2020. In that year, almost all
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in the world were forced to do the e-learning process to reduce the number of
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cases and it is becoming an alternative learning currently. Even though
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covid-19 has gone, online learning is still popular and many people tend to do that kind of learning
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of traditional one
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some advantages,
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as
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, simple and
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also
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students
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can do the learning process at home
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long as they have an internet
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and gadget.
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case is happening in all
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fields, not only in formal but
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non-formal
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in non-formal
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and informal
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.
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, in English
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one of the English courses in the world, After
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covid-19, many parents ask to continue
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online learning rather than face-to-face because they stay in other cities where there
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no English
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in that city. They have a desire to give the best
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their children but have limited
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, so they believe that the e-learning process has numerous benefits for them.
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, face-to-face learning has its own advantages which could not be replaced by e-learning. E-learning is easy to
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but it happens only for those who have internet
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and gadgets,
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not every student has them, especially those who come from rural areas.
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, traditional
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can offer physical activities and be more interactive than e-learning which can make the
students
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more bound to each other, and
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develop their other developments outside the knowledge of academic things.
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,
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traditional learning, teachers have more chances to observe the ability of their
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and the score given could be more accurate because the observation includes all student developments.
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, when
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the pandemic
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covid-19 was coming and school
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should be delivered online, most teachers who thought in rural areas faced a hard time
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with that situation because all of the
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did not have
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technology and there was no internet
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. So, the teacher went to each student's house, to give the material.
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, each type of learning has
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own benefits, either e-learning or traditional learning. Each person has their own perspective and choice to choose the best
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for their children.
Nevertheless
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, face-to-face learning has its own characteristic which cannot be replaced by e-learning.
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Topic Vocabulary:
  • e-Learning
  • face-to-face education
  • remote learning
  • virtual classroom
  • webinar
  • digital platform
  • self-paced learning
  • interactive learning
  • course accessibility
  • academic networking
  • pedagogy
  • synchronous/asynchronous sessions
  • MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses)
  • edtech (educational technology)
  • holistic development
  • practical skills
  • collaborative learning
  • digital divide
  • curriculum adaptation
  • technological literacy
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