In fact, online education will only aggravate the unfairness of education.
This thing sounds ridiculous. Obviously, online education has given more people the opportunity to learn. If you don't do well, you can also take free courses. How can it aggravate social injustice?
In 1960s, in order to eliminate the widening gap between poor families and wealthy families, the American government produced an educational TV program Sesame Street by using new TV media. However, in the subsequent investigation, it was found that although the plan brought good education to poor families, the actual implementation effect was to expand the differences in learning ability and performance between rich and poor children.
No product can exist without the operation rules of society. For example, in order to crack down on the gray income of the "school selection fee" of key schools, the Ministry of Education has put forward the policy of "admission to the nearest school without examination". On the surface, it has promoted education equity, but in fact it has brought about a sharp rise in the price of school districts. After all, every parent wants to provide their children with the best education like Meng Mu.
Online education itself is a typical case of "knowledge gap" The theory of knowledge gap expounds a very realistic social law. When there is more and more information in a society, those groups with high social and economic status will get this information at a faster speed, thus widening the gap between social groups. Some people think that the Internet will eliminate the knowledge gap, but in fact, the years of Internet development are also the years when the gap between the rich and the poor in China has accelerated.
Therefore, when you provide a free spoken English learning software, the main learners must be located in the eastern coastal cities such as Beishangguangshen and Shenzhen, and the wealthy families among them, after realizing that they can learn spoken English online, may let their children spend tens of thousands of dollars to find a real one-on-one teacher online every year. Even after the popularization of infrastructure and the country finally equipped every rural school with tablet computers, families in first-tier cities have been studying how to learn through VR and AR.
What online education can do is not to bring absolute educational fairness to students, but to have fair opportunities. In the past, only a few people attended lectures by Nobel Prize winners. Now you can hear them in MOOCW courses.
Online education is the dividend of the next Sesame Street, that is, the dividend of the next school district. People who don't make good use of online education now, or those who stubbornly believe that knowledge should be free, or parents who want their children not to touch the internet, will eventually regret their original choices.