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Tuesday, April 28, 2009

Would You Catch Your Current Lessons Online?

There’s no doubt classes at times make you queasy; especially inside those chivy walls on a hot Friday afternoon. Don’t they really wear you off? Perhaps, what makes it shadier is the numerous bustles you make to get in class in time amid traffic jams or being caught up by a host of other personal commitments. This could be entirely different if you were taking your lessons online.

Online courses have from a moment ago proliferated to a big stance; such that it is possible to earn a first class honor degree from a decent university over the internet without making a single appearance in their lecture halls. This is mostly done through an amount of internet technologies; live bulletin boards, live chats and email services. Conceivably, the superlative convenience that comes with the online courses is the degree of flexibility. So you wouldn’t fret much about fitting your education task in your daily schedule. You can complete your virtue lecturer’s assignment anytime of the day and make submissions. For dawdling learners, you would learn at your pace.

Conversely, there has been much concern about a number of issues that arise from online courses. First, it’s whether the quality of education offered in online classes would match with the traditional class. Apparently, this sort of learning is not new; it’s much similar to the distance learning; where learning materials are corresponded to the learner. Internet technologies have bridged most of the challenges that were apparent in distance learning, and today this mode of learning is winning in huge reaps.

But most probably, you would miss those lessons from your favorite instructor as he lectures with much applause in the lecture rooms, not mentioning the social network you would have created with college mates. Wouldn’t you?

1 comment:

  1. ...of course the unanimous chorus of some rowdy backbenchers is what i would miss most. but who can overlook the convince of distance learning. Otherwise, very insightful

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