Opinion Essay

With The ‘Cloud’ the World Will Be Our Classroom

Education in general is a form of learning in which the knowledge, skills, values, believing’s and habits of people are being transferred from one generation to the next through stories, discussions, teaching, training, and researching. But with time education changes, it is developing through technology.
In my opinion the future education will be all about the cloud (Wi-Fi), it will especially develop in 3 factors of education.

Even nowadays most schools are using the cloud very often. Teachers are using the cloud to set, collect and grade their students homework online. Students have direct and quick access to their grades, comments and work via any device with cloud access.
Now, this system is commonly used in higher education, you can find everything what has to do with your education online. I believe that in the future this way of the usage of cloud will expand and will be used through every step of education from primary school to higher education.

Besides the development of the usage of the cloud as collecting student’s homework, grading and commenting their work, E-learning has been developing too. It began with online courses, but now you can start and finish a whole higher education online which you get a degree for and not just a certificate like the online courses.
I really think that E-learning has changed and will keep change teaching and learning. Students take their own time to access knowledge anytime and anywhere as their own choice. They don’t have to wait for a specific time of day for their class. They will choose themselves of what they want to learn, how they want to learn and when they want to learn.
Students will learn independently and in their own way, because there is a huge amount of resources online that students can find and use themselves, without any help of the teacher. This of course means that also the role of the teacher will change.

The role of teachers in education will develop too. I think that in the future the role as a teacher will be more like individual teaching. Students who have a hard time to understand a subject or need that extra explanation and need to catch up with the subject that has been given in the class will be helped and supported individually by the teachers. Instead of leading the class they will be the backup for those students.
This support doesn’t even have to be in a classroom, it could also be through the cloud online. The possibilities and ways of helping student’s individually in class and through any device with cloud access are endless.

The development of technology; the cloud will change every part of our lives, like our children’s and even our own education. Every aspect of education will need to develop with technology itself. Like the usage of the cloud in schools, the importance of E-learning for young and old and with that the changes of the teachers role, their careers. Cloud will create unimaginable changes and possibilities for the education sector. It is the future and the inevitability of this sector.