subject: Free Textbooks: Education Is Just A Click Away [print this page] These days, nearly half of the advertisements that relate to education, if its in newspaper or magazines or on the Net talk of virtual education. Various tutorial courses in competitive exams like SAT, GRE, TOEFL and other exams in management can be accessed through virtual classes. Still this new concept has to be considered from the perspectives of efficiency and ready availability to the common masses. In this very context, the accessibility of Free Textbooks and other public accredited materials come useful that can be easily distributed among the masses.
Educational contents, be it textbooks or any other form, have to be rich in content and easily accessible for use of common people. Internet still not always coming up with quality contents and in case of professional educational materials or textbooks. If we can easily obtain free textbooks and other educational contents on the Internet with just one click of the mouse it would have been great. That sounds good as a concept. The virtualization of education has adhered to this idea too. If technology enable virtual classrooms and if materials are free and readily accessible for the common people education can be liberated.
There are two major factors in case of virtual education first its important to make sure of the availability of the non paper and electronic materials and secondly the materials should be easily distributed through distribution channels from where public can assess them. The element of availability is taken care by free textbooks and authorized materials we obtain nowadays. In the case of distribution, Internet comes in to cater to mass communication and mass dissemination of electronic contents.
Virtual educations are of various kinds. Some of the educational institutes provides with tutorial and preparative materials for the examinations such as GRE, SAT, TOEFL and many other competitive and professional exams. There are other institutions who offer online courses on management, law and other professional avenues. In most of the cases, the provider of the materials design free textbooks and other form of educational materials for the students. Sometimes they need to dispense with money for subscribed contents and services.
Virtual education can create a major impact in dissemination of education in the masses. It can penetrate to various levels to spread education by offering free textbooks and other educational contents readily available on the virtual medium like the Internet. We think this concept is going to liberate the idea of education and cater to the problems that we face in education nowadays.
