What do you think is the reason behind the Illiteracy Demon?

Well, if we dig deep into finding reasons behind why people do not take up education seriously and become literate, all that we will find are countless reasons and excuses. Children who are old enough to attend their secondary level classes hardly go to school. Reasons being internal conflicts and lack of peaceful ambience, poor educational set up in their place of living, lack of proper teachers and their availability, instable political setup and insufficient aid from well to do countries. Well the reasons quoted are just a handful of them, as innumerable reasons keep coming up given the varied atmospheres and living patterns of people.

Why Online Education is Considered a Feasible Hope for Closing the Literacy Gap in Developing Countries?

For a long time since the evolution of internet as a means of education, it had been disparaged with the illusion of illegitimate institutions and fraudulent companies set up to swindle money from students who found distance learning education the only option available for fulfilling their goals and long standing aims. With the growing need for education and given the limited options available in under developed or developing countries to achieve maximum literacy, internet emerged as the only feasible method to achieve the target.

Online Learning has increased dramatically providing way for a complete educational and literacy solution serving those remote places and countries which cannot be otherwise catered to.

How does online education help in enhancing literacy rate?

• Handicapped school systems across the globe are revamped with the help of web based teaching tools




• Refugee children and aspiring adults are offered free online open source curriculums which can be downloaded free of charge. It is but obvious that those who fled for life cannot think of bringing their school books along with them.




• Not just offering education to students, internet as a medium is helpful in training teachers who in turn will help in serving under served and backward areas.




• Close to 75 million children do not attend to schools due to not availability of primary school teachers. In South Africa alone close to 4 million teachers are trained through distance educational and web based training programs to cater the needs of Sub- Saharan African region.




• Online Degree Programs offer question banks enabling students to understand and revise their lessons better especially when they are not clear about their assignments and home work schedules offered online.




• Open source study and reference materials are becoming popular, as they enable under developed countries to access free course materials, text books and lessons to enable students to meet their requirements.




• As a major hurdle to the efforts of educating the world population is the non availability of the means of benefiting from web based learning. The student to computer ratio is about 1 for 20 and 1 for 71 in countries like Guatemala and Mexico; it is around 1 for 3000 in countries like Niger. Even if computers are not available net based learning can be continued without disturbance through cell phones and radios. While supplementary study materials are downloaded through cell phones, radios are used for googling and related searches.

How far is net based education beneficial?

Online Degrees is extremely beneficial in serving those places where educational development is at its minimum. It is offers as a education as a gift even to those in under developed nations where regular educational development will take a long time to happen.

Early education for kids through internet may be as successful as advanced level of study as interaction in person means a lot in early days of schooling.

Again, net based education is not free from the fears of diploma mills and online fraudulent companies whose main aim is to dupe the students and run away with the money collected from them. Given the dangers such as falling prey to diploma mills, extreme precaution needs to be taken in handling the limitations and shortcomings of online education as a means of achieving the desired literacy rate across the globe.