Online education services

Online education services are widely used by teachers to inform their students and also for students to educate themselves. These services offer a huge convenience as people studying a course are able to have access to the content and information they need 24/7. These are being used more frequently in primary and secondary education because people are becoming computer literate at younger ages meaning they aren't being needed to be taught how to use primary functions of a computer.

BBC Bitesize

Bitesize is one of the most used online education services in the UK, it is mainly used by primary and secondary education but other course are available also. Bitesize gives students access to slide shows, tests and even games so that they may learn the subject to a better standard, the primary format the information is given in a simple page format with short paragraphs and bullet points to give the main facts and improve the speed at which people can learn from it.

Although Bitesize provides free notes and information for public courses, it has a huge lack of specifics for people to work from. This Is because they don’t provide defined exam boards, this limits hugely to people trying to learn because they are unable to know whether the information given is relevant to them or not.

My maths

My maths is used wisely in secondary education to set mathematics homework. While providing homework tasks, to accompany this they also give an online class with homework for students to learn from before they take on the main task. Furthermore they also give maths tasks and questions in the form of games to make the learning experience a more fun one.

The difference between this and Bitesize is that it tackles a specific subject of education as opposed to entire academic years and key stages. This makes way for them to concentrate better on the overall experience so that students can teach I the most efficient way possible while Bitesize has to take on and monitor over 20 different subjects which in turn makes for a less fulfilled and thorough experience.

Non-education specific websites

Websites like YouTube provide hundreds of channels made by individuals that educate on many different subjects. One example of this is My GCSE Science. This channel contains tutorials and note videos of every subject and topics for AQA physics, Biology and Chemistry. I used this service to revise all of my notes for my science GCSE exams and achieved and A grade in each of them.

YouTube provides so much variety that you will be able to find the information you need on thousands of subjects with and actually person talking about it to you which takes gives a physical element and as a result sets this apart from both Bitesize and My maths.