Top Three Challenges for Online Tuition Providing Platforms

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Top three Challenges for online tuition providing
platforms
Description As we know, India is emerging as a
leader in the online education/e-learning sector
for the last decade. If we look back then we
will find only a few e-learning startup platforms
were playing their cards in this country. Due to
the lack of competition in this sector, students
were getting limited scope to choose the right
deal in terms of cost, quality, variety, and
features. Players like BYJU, UDEMY, UNACADEMY
were the lone wolves in this online education
market. But the rise of the COVID-19 pandemic
has changed the entire game plan. The numbers of
online education startups have evolved during
this period of educational emergency. UrbanTution
is one of the new players in this e-learning
sector. UrbanTution is working on a unique
concept that provides students and o nline tutors
ample freedom to choose their convenient mode of
e-interaction. It is a very simple yet powerful
intermediary platform that provides a single roof
under which both students and private tutors can
collaborate, interact and flourish together. In
the Urban tuition model tutors got more
opportunities to teach o nline tuitions and home
tuitions, while students can hire online tutors,
check tutor reviews, find tuitions at home, find
a tutor online which can save them both time and
money.
India, being a highly populous country in the
world, faces lots of challenges and hurdles while
catering sophisticated services to its enormous
population. Similarly, several other limitations
like-
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infrastructure, literacy, awareness, diversity
also hinder the path of E-learning / online
tuition systems. Here we can briefly discuss
some of the major issues and challenges for
Indian E-learning platforms. 1. INTERNET SPEED
AVAILABILITY
As the name "E-Learning/ online tuition" itself
suggests, the whole thing has to hover around
Internet Connectivity. India was initially
lagging behind other developed countries in terms
of Internet connectivity, availability of
high-speed internet, and secured network
infrastructure. So It was almost irrelevant to
even think about online education for its
citizens. But since last decade huge progress
has been achieved in terms of all the above-said
factors. India has been self-reliant to offer
high-speed internet connectivity to a majority of
the public. Still, a lot of efforts are required
to extend this facility to the doorsteps of each
and every Indian family irrespective of
demographic challenges. 2. GADGETS PRODUCTION
COST A good quality laptop/smartphone is
necessary to run the online learning systems. As
we know the per capita income of India is very
low and most of the people belong to poor
economical backgrounds, it is very difficult for
them to afford a laptop/ Smartphone to avail of
e-learning opportunities. The main reason behind
this out-raising cost factor is the scarcity of
manufacturing
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integration facilities in our country. Our nation
is lacking sufficient expertise and production
skills to manufacture laptop/ Smartphone spare
parts. So as our hon'ble PM has initiated a
highly ambitious "Aatmnirbhar Bharat" campaign,
the nation should be self-reliant in terms of
gadget production so that their cost can be
minimized.
3. LITERACY AWARENESS As we know India is a
country filled with diversities in terms of-
profession, language, region, caste, religion,
income, and whatnot. So due to these sensitive
factors, a huge portion of the Indian population
is lacking primary education, technical skills,
behavioral ethics, a sense of responsibility,
and many more. Online education is a blend of-
education with technology skills. So to make this
powerful e-learning platform popular the
government should implement some strategic plans
to eradicate illiteracy and ignite the lamp of
technical skills in its citizens. It can be
achieved through the introduction of courses in
various educational curriculums and through
creating public camps, workshops, training, etc.
These are the basic challenges that an
Online-Education platform can face in near
future. As this pandemic era has not left ample
scope to re-capitalize the traditional way of
learning, so our nation is bound to look forward
with this ultimate weapon i.e. E-Learning in
order to build an EDUCATED BHARAT.