Unlocking the Importance of Virtual Learning: How Online Education Shapes Tomorrow’s Scholars

What will even be of interest is to know that Virtual learning is currently the most burgeoning market within the educational niche. Since the turn of the year 2000, this has tremendously increased by ninety and nine percent! (Source).

This is only the beginning of all this. Studies did show that virtual learning user is expected to be approximately 57 million in the year 2027.

Consider the following statistics and facts about virtual learning:

1. 63% of students in the United States engage in virtual learning activities daily
2. 70% of students have voted for virtual learning against traditional classrooms
3. According to Statista, “Of undergraduate students who studied online in 2020, 50% were female and 49% were male.”
4. A study showed that in 2019, 2.4 million students worldwide were engaged in some form of virtual learning. The number increased to 7 million students after the Covid-19 pandemic hit in 2020. (National Center for Education Statistics)
5. Virtual learning increases student retention rate by 60%!

Let’s briefly explain the term: Virtual Learning, which we will be using in our discussion ahead.

What is Virtual Learning?

Virtual learning is a mode of learning that allows students to take their daily lessons at any time and any place with the help of digital media like a phone, laptop, etc., and the internet.

This form of learning can take place either in a self-paced (asynchronous) environment or in a real-time (synchronous) environment. 

Key features of Virtual Learning

Virtual learning is characterised by the following key features:

1. Flexibility
2. Accessibility
3. Interactive tools
4. Personalised Learning
5. Resource availability

Unlocking the Importance of Virtual Learning

How is 21K School Empowering the Leaders of Tomorrow?

21K School is your K12 virtual school. Starting in June 2020, today our community includes over 7500 students and 300 teachers from 500 cities and 78+ countries representing 72+ nationalities. 

Educational Approach:

• Comprehensive Curriculum: As a part of the curriculum model 21K School covers all basic skills and also offers core, capstone, and elective courses to provide a broad academic experience.
• Live Online Classes: Students come for live classes conducted virtually for 1-4 hours 5-6 days a week depending on the grade. All these classes are; taught by professional qualified and experienced teachers and subject specialists.
• Specialised Learning: Extra lessons from your subject teachers assist in enriching the information and, or competencies regarding the subjects taught at school.
• Global Community: Multiculturalism and tolerance are maintained by the pro-diversity policy of the School: students and professors come from different countries.

Innovative Initiatives:

• Capstone Courses & Electives: Many top-off courses, and many option courses offered enable students to follow areas of interest, and also build up their special abilities that are ignored or not developed due to constraints of the curriculum
  
• Conferences and Online Events: Web conferences such as seminars and other types of virtual activities are now the convention of the academic year and represent the opportunity to showcase skills, argue, and develop cooperative projects.

Through projects the students are formed in digital literacy, critical and creative thinking, leadership, problem-solving, and teamwork; therefore, 21K School prepares for tomorrow’s world.

Final Thoughts

So far, the development of Artificial Learning (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) is at its pinnacle. The tendencies in the global environment are something like minute-to-minute.

It is about time that we offer children all the relevant abilities and information that are required in the new world.

In line with 21K School’s belief in the value of 21st-century learning, the students are prepared to be competent leaders and active participants in the future society and world.

Being a borderless institution we adopt an innovative learning system that is implemented through the use of advanced technology of flexible learning that enables the student to learn at his or her convenience.

However, when one learns at his convenience, one is sure to succeed in academics and other fields of endeavor.

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