Advantages of Learning Online
1. Convenient
The biggest advantage of e-learning is that everything is available for students, including classroom and instructor are accessible every time when students getting online. Students can get announcements, obtain notes, take practice quizzes, discuss questions and chat with fellow students. Except the due dates stated by instructor, students can manage their own schedule for fulfilling the requirements of the course.
2. Offer flexibility
Students can study any time they want and also with whomever they want. E-learning provides students the flexibility to spend times with work, family, friends or any other activity they like. For those people with keep on changing work schedules or people who make regular business trips, parents with small children or whose health stops them from attending classes on a recurrent basis, this manner of course delivery is most suitable.
3. Offer more individual attention
Students can communicate with their instructor via e-mail, and get their questions answered directly. Many students aren't comfortable asking questions in class. By accessing internet, students can eliminate that fear and ask their instructor questions freely. This means that E-learning enhanced the opportunity to learn.
4. Promote life-long learning
Having that spark of interest and knowing how to obtain information online ensures that what students learning are always existing to them. If students become interested in a particular topic, they can find online and look it up. Students will have developed the skills to get information, digest it, synthesize it, and formulate an answer to questions that comes their way.
5. Connect students to the global village
The Internet has linked the people of the world in ways we haven't known before. Many times the web sites students visit in a course will be based in another country. They may even meet and make friends with someone in another country because they all are a student in the same course.
Disadvantages of Learning Online
1. Require more time than on-campus classes
Students will spend more time studying and accomplishing assignments in the online environment than they will in an on-campus course. The online environment is text-based. To communicate with their instructor and other students, students must type messages, post responses, and otherwise communicate through typing. Typing is slower than speaking. Students will likely learn more in an online environment, but they will have to make a greater effort to achieve that learning.
2. Require good time-management skills
An Internet-based course requires that students build up personal time-management skills. As with most things, if students don't organize their time appropriately, they will find themselves buried beneath a seeming insurmountable mountain of coursework. Online courses require the self-discipline to set aside chunks of time to complete their studies. This means that students have to make online coursework in priority and not let other activities intervene.
3. May create a sense of isolationIn an online course, students may feel like they are alone with only their computer. This makes some students quite uncomfortable. A quick e-mail to a classmate or their instructor can help they feel better connected if the sense of community they seek is missing.
4. Allow student to be more independent and an active learner
Online courses require student to be responsible for their learning. Their instructor shares knowledge and experience with them. Although students will spend a lot of time offline formulating ideas and developing their knowledge and skills, they will also need to be a presence in an online course environment by involving to frequently posting quality ideas. As in face-to-face classes, just being a face is not enough. Students must share their ideas and knowledge and respond to their fellow students to be an active participant in the virtual classroom.
5. Give students more freedom, perhaps, more than they can handle
This freedom can be dangerous if students don't learn how to control it, especially when it comes to meeting deadlines for assignments or exams. Each online course has a schedule for them to follow that offers information about what content is included and due dates for assignments or exams. Use this to help them plan their time.
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