A Review Article: Challenges and Opportunities of Interactive Online English Courses

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Technological aids promote learning at home and in classrooms. Students can spend their time learning on their computers, laptops, and mobiles. They are user-friendly and simple to use. So, it is highly beneficial to encourage students to learn online. Our National Educational Policy 2020 encourages institutions to use flipped and blended learning. The future of learning is going to be highly dependent on technology-related solutions. One strategy that can be applied by regular institutions is to create regular online courses to explain theoretical language concepts online and students would be able to focus on practical and communicative language activities in the classroom. This is essential for language learners since they lack opportunities to practice languages. As a result, they try to learn language skills as a subject that has to be memorised which may not provide rich dividends in their future career aspirations because of poor communicative skills in the English language, which is considered to be a working language these days in most of the countries. Also, language courses taught through distance education should try to make online courses available for its learners. However, these courses should be interactive for students to learn effectively. A solution to create interactive courses is to use e-learning authoring tools like Articulate Storyline or Adobe Captivate. This research article will look at various research studies that have been conducted to find out the challenges and opportunities that computer-aided online interactive courses provide for English language learners.

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Computer-aided English Courses, Interactive language courses, flipped and blended learning

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Raj, V. Praveen and Sudhadevi, M.(2024). A Review Article: Challenges and Opportunities of Interactive Online English Courses. IPEM JOURNAL OF INNOVATION IN TEACHER EDUCATION, 9(1), 75–79.