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How Can Online Education Better Guide Students in Learning?

Updated: 2022-05-16 10:08:41

---Excerpt from Huxiu.com's "How Can Online Education Attract Averse Learners?"

Before formally discussing the viewpoint in the title, I would like to introduce two concepts: elite learners and averse learners. Elite learners are a group of people who are not picky about their environment, can tolerate tedious theories, have strong patience to dig into knowledge, and can easily absorb the nutrients they need. They can use their strong learning ability to discover and learn what they need. Averse learners are a group of people who dislike theory, are demanding of their environment, lack patience, and give up easily. Even if you tell them that not studying means no job or no college admission, they still lack the patience to accept boring and uninteresting knowledge. In fact, our test data on online learning shows that in the real internet world, less than 3% of learning elites are willing to accept so-called fragmented learning, while the vast majority of averse learners simply do not accept fragmented learning. Even those who participate will give up after 1 to 5 attempts. This leads to a huge problem when we move traditional offline education online and assume everyone needs education: our target audience is no longer just the scarce elite learners, but must include those averse learners we previously ignored. Existing traditional education products are mostly based on elite learner thinking. They target all those who aspire to become elites and satisfy their needs. In the future of online education, they must consider meeting the needs of the over 90% of averse learners. To cater to the learning habits of averse learners on the internet, future online education must reference the concept of "flow" proposed by American psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi. "Flow" refers to the state of high excitement and fulfillment experienced when attention is completely focused on an activity, a state often found in games and competitions like golf and World of Warcraft. Therefore, in internet-based education, we must in the future attract learners through interest and points of focus. We need to design interesting task arrangements and timely feedback systems, offering surprises and rewards. Finally, learners will be able to quickly apply what they have learned through interaction and social engagement. Only then will a large number of averse learners participate, and only then will this be the future of online education.

Editor's Note: What defines an elite learner and what defines an averse learner? They simply have different interests, different areas of focus, and different states of expression. If appropriate methods are found to guide them, the learning outcomes should not differ much. In this era of a surge in online education, this is a question worth pondering for online educators. If fresh technology is integrated into online teaching, whether for elite learners or averse learners, curiosity will drive them to seriously try it out, thereby "capturing" their hearts and enabling them to study earnestly. POLYV has tailored new video technologies for online education users, such as courseware players, classroom Q&A players, and student information collectors, helping online education users better achieve technological innovation in online teaching.

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