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Training courses or virtual lessons – the web space opens up not only the world of knowledge, but also ourselves, allowing us to realize talents and childhood dreams, to live in the usual rhythm, but on a different scale.
Taking language lessons, mastering the art of photography or playing the guitar, practicing chess or yoga without leaving your home… the best teachers,” says Olga Makhovskaya, a cross-cultural psychologist. Skype learning is compatible with any lifestyle, wealth and social status.
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Realize the dream. “I couldn’t bring myself to sit down at a desk with 20-year-old students,” admits 54-year-old Svetlana. “It is only thanks to web technologies that I am mastering the specialty that I have dreamed of since childhood: interior design.” “I know that at any moment I can abandon a teacher who is no longer interesting to me and add training courses that are necessary for work,” says 42-year-old Sergey, who is studying the basics of the real estate business online. “The traditional education system is public, each of us remembers our fear of answering incorrectly, hearing laughter or criticism of ourselves,” explains Olga Makhovskaya. “Skype distance learning allows timid or introverted people to learn while feeling safe.”
Be in contact. “I like talking one-on-one with a teacher, it’s convenient: you can clarify things you don’t understand, ask a few questions,” says 25-year-old Tatyana, a student in the screenwriting course. – It seems that all the teachers work only for me. This motivates us to take our studies and profession more seriously.” In addition, it is always permissible to choose your own pace and format of learning: it is obvious that they will be different for a mother of many children and a child prodigy.
Edit script. Many of us live for years postponing significant, but risky (with an unguaranteed result) events for later, whether it be marriage, diet or study. Often behind such a strategy lies a reluctance to make an effort. The apparent ease of online education helps to take the first step and change the usual scenario. Why apparent? Learning online is easier economically and physically, but knowledge still requires a lot of internal effort from us. A quality education has gone from a privilege of the select few to a privilege of the motivated. And the pleasure that learning gives us may be its main motive.
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khanacademy.org The most popular educational resource in the world is Khan Academy. The site offers almost 3300 free lectures in English in mathematics, physics, art history and other sciences and hundreds of practical exercises. Some lectures are already available in Russian.