Given below are two statements, one labelled as Assertion (A) and the other as Reason (R). In the light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:
Assertion (A):Through online teaching, a large number of students can be taught by very competent faculty.
Reason (R):Online teaching helps students in developing critical thinking more than offline teaching can do.
ABoth A and R are correct and R is the correct explanation of A
BBoth A and R are correct but R is not the correct explanation of A
CA is correct but R is not correct ✓ Correct
DA is not correct but R is correct
Correct answer: (C) A is correct but R is not correct
Explanation
A is correct but R is not: online teaching can reach large numbers with competent faculty, but it does not develop critical thinking more than offline teaching.
Online platforms let one able teacher instruct thousands at once, giving scale.
Critical thinking grows through discussion, debate and close interaction, often stronger face-to-face.
There is no evidence that online mode inherently surpasses offline in building critical thinking.
So the reason overstates online teaching's advantage in higher-order thinking.
Each mode has distinct strengths; scale is online's gain, deep interaction is offline's.
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