When 5G revolutionizes remote education.

After the healthcare and gaming sectors, we are continuing our series on 5G by focusing this week on the new opportunities it offers in the field of training and education.

If the health crisis has disrupted the way we work, it has also disrupted the way we learn.

Although distance education and training solutions were already in place and in use before the pandemic, they have seen a real boom in the past year. While we are forced to reduce our contacts to what is strictly necessary, new technologies have indeed become essential tools to continue educating our children but also to train young and less young people.

Remote education, many advantages

At the end of the crisis, it is highly possible that these tools will not be abandoned and will efficiently complete classroom teaching. In the medium and long term, distance education and training have several major advantages.

First of all, it reduces the economic and ecological costs related to travelling. With customizable hours, they also offer greater flexibility to learners, who can better make their training compatible with a job. Moreover, thanks to individualized learning paths, distance learning brings a stronger personalization of teaching. Finally, it helps to break down barriers of exchanges between learners and teachers at the regional, national and international levels. With e-learning, for example, it is fully possible to follow the courses of an expert living on the other side of the Atlantic!

More interactivity thanks to 5G

The deployment of 5G should enable us to take even better advantage of the opportunities offered by distance learning. Thanks to its ultra-fast speed and very high reactivity, 5G offers the possibility of coupling these e-learning solutions with various technologies that will reinforce the impact of online education and professional training.

Thanks to 5G, for example, teachers will be able to rely on high-definition video wherever they are. It will be possible to share a 360° video or to stream two video streams in parallel, one showing the speaker, the other showing the board or an object, for example. Thanks to very short latency times, interactivity between learners and teachers will also be perfect. No more gaps between sound and video! No more slowed down chats because too many people participate!

5G for a more immersive teaching

Thanks to 5G, it will also be possible to integrate virtual reality and augmented reality into e-learning solutions much more easily, presenting students with content that is much more immersive, more interactive, full of imagery and therefore more impactful.

Virtual reality and augmented reality will be able to be used on smartphones, tablets or even connected headsets, in a context of mobility, and with a speed and low latency equivalent to those of fiber.

In our living and working places, but also on travel, education and training will be everywhere!