This article is written by a student writer from the Her Campus at Valdosta chapter.
In COVID times of mass quarantine and overall fright, virtual classes have often be given a bad rap for overall just not being the same as in-person classes, but here I’m going to show you just how much that really isn’t the case.
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1. Public Speaking
Virtual classes provide avenues for students who would otherwise not participate in class as to why we participate. According to Psychology Today, 73% of human beings suffer from the fear of public speaking, this means they feel anxiety around groups of people or interacting with strangers. This is best seen and creates mass problems in the case of participation in/of students in in-person classes resulting in low grades for students who aren’t as extroverted as others. In fact, public speaking is the highest-ranked fear even when compared to that of heights and death. Yes, I said it people are more scared of public speaking than actually dying if you can believe it.
Having Virtual classes will overall bring down the price of schooling for many institutions. This allows people from disenfranchised groups or poorer communities to be able to have the same access of education that someone who is rich would have. Overall decreasing the amount of elitism that we see commonly in universities and education systems in America.
Virtual classes put all students on the equal playing field and limiting a lot of ableist elements that already exist through our systems today. For example, in many classes that focus on service learning, there isn’t a lot of accessibility to those who have disabilities and or are constrained to things like wheelchairs. And in a virtual class, there are many simulations in which everyone can be adequately participating and engaged in the activity equally.
Virtual classes and learning allow students to be able to experience a class from anywhere. Whether that is at home, in their dorm, at school, on the bus, on the way to work, or even at work. There has never been a time more advantageous and experiential than now. The avenues are endless allowing students to create their own schedules and have time to have side hustles/ jobs in which they can work to pay for that education they’re receiving. Currently, in our status quo, many students have to choose between taking a class or going to work because the time the class is offered does not work into their schedule, but having virtual classes will give students the ability to take a class or view a class anytime that they have availability. This can be done in many avenues even if the virtual class takes place at a certain time virtual classes can be recorded and the student can still get the information from that video recording without being detrimentally damaging their education.
Hello, my names Yetunde Oluwadare (pronounced Yeah-tune-day) I am 18 years old and a freshman at VSU. I love to paint, draw, and cook in my free time and I'm also a psychology major.
