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The 21st century is the age of skills. One of the basic criteria to remain alive in the tough competition is skillful education. Educationalists all over the world have highlighted this aspect in the modern education system. And Internet stands as a boon to enrich this system with the advent of online education.
Online education was initially considered to be a monotonous and a one-way mode of learning. What would be the possibility of interaction was still in doubt? Will there at all be any scope of interaction between the teachers and the taught as we are familiar in conventional mode of education was a very big question? Soon all these problems with the online education system were resolved and a very flexible medium named Interactive Learning Guide was introduced. For all sorts of web-based learning, the Interactive Learning Guide is a mode of communicative understanding of the subject providing you with the virtual ambience of an interactive session of a classroom setup yet with the real flavor.
Real facilities
The Interactive Learning Guide is basically omnipresent in nature. You can access it from anywhere at any moment of time only if you have the Internet facility. The concept is to serve the learners all day, all time whenever you need the help. A real classroom teaching can never be shaped in this pattern.
The basis of interactive learning process is instructional and mainly understanding through applications. The teacher and the student share one platform and generate the interaction process. Technological support is always present where in fact the barriers in the traditional classroom structure can be overcome. Practical solutions through application method are easily shown in the form of web modules to the students to get hold of a clear idea about the thing being taught. Though apparently the system may make you feel of something static but in fact the Interactive Learning Guide as the name suggests is one of the best avenues for interactive learning.
Technical support
In a normal class system it is either the board or the LCD projector along with the teacher’s lecture that can be supportive to the learning process. But online interactive system has brought a change in the basic conception of learning. It is a two-way process. Various technical assistances in terms of audio, video, graphics, voice-over etc have been incorporated in the Interactive Learning Guide. It’s knowledgeable yet loaded with fun.