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What Do You Think Are The Main Benefits of Online Learning?

1. The main benefits of online learning are its flexibility, accessibility, and ability to broaden educational opportunities. It allows students to learn on their own schedule, take courses from anywhere in the world, and stay competitive. However, online students must be self-motivated, independent, and responsible for their own learning. 2. While online learning is growing in popularity due to increased access and lower costs, some drawbacks include technical barriers, a lack of hands-on experience, and financial risks for institutions that invest heavily without ensuring technical support. Not all courses can be effectively taught online. 3. When teaching online, it is important to select technology tools strategically based on course goals and student needs. In

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What Do You Think Are The Main Benefits of Online Learning?

1. The main benefits of online learning are its flexibility, accessibility, and ability to broaden educational opportunities. It allows students to learn on their own schedule, take courses from anywhere in the world, and stay competitive. However, online students must be self-motivated, independent, and responsible for their own learning. 2. While online learning is growing in popularity due to increased access and lower costs, some drawbacks include technical barriers, a lack of hands-on experience, and financial risks for institutions that invest heavily without ensuring technical support. Not all courses can be effectively taught online. 3. When teaching online, it is important to select technology tools strategically based on course goals and student needs. In

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1. What do you think are the main benefits of online learning?

The surge in the demand for web based teaching and learning through the use of Internet
and the accessibility of technology have made significant changes to almost all aspect of
educational system. The Internet has made online teaching possible, and many researchers and
educators are interested in online learning to enhance and improve student learning outcomes.
Online education is quickly infiltrating into colleges and universities across the country.
Even though most of the population think that technology has a bad influence on our
education it still has a lot of benefits like access to information anytime, provides us alternative
books and it makes distance learning more accessible than ever. One of the main benefits of
online learning is a flexible schedule, providing a service that is easily available and quick
because some on-line courses are available 24 hours. Online courses offer an excellent way for
students to broaden their educational opportunities and stay competitive in the ever demanding
realm of education. Students embarking on the path of higher education through online
coursework need to be self-motivated, independent, and responsible learners

2. What about drawbacks?


Many Universities and colleges have started to invest heavily in online teaching, why are
institutions across the world doing this? There is an increasing demand for online courses; there
are many rationales for offering and investing online education, ranging from increasing access,
to improving the quality of learning, to reducing costs, to preparing students better for a
knowledge-based society, to responding to market demand. Though online learning is gaining
popularity, it have been criticized by traditional print-based faculty because they do not believe
that it actually solves difficult teaching and learning problems, some are concerned about the
barriers that hinder the effective online teaching and learning. Some of the concerns include the
changing nature of technology, complexity of networked system, lack of stability in online
learning environments, and the limited understanding of how much students and instructors need
to know to successfully participate using communication and information technology.

In addition, not all courses can be effectively transformed from a hands-on classroom
experience to a totally computer-based learning environment. As such, faculties can’t overlook
the risks anticipated in financial management and technical support for faculty. In terms of
technical support, faculty needs to have sufficient allocation of revenues to units that take the
risks of converting their face-to-face programmes to an online one because these projects may
warrant unnecessary yet important expenditure.

3. If you'll be teaching online, what methods and technologies are you going to use? Why?
Nowadays, technology integration in the classroom is seamless and thoughtful; students
not only become more engaged but begin to take more control over their own learning too. Using
technology well means being selective. Choosing the right technology tools for your teaching
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means making strategic choices, weighing costs against payoffs, and staying laser-focused on
your course goals.
Just as there are a great variety of learning styles and a range of quality in the online
course available, there are different reasons for taking courses and one of those is online tutorial.
There are some skills, lessons and other forms of knowledge that be mastered very successfully
online. As such, the inventors of the Internet were motivated by the desire to put all the world’s
knowledge within reach of all the world’s citizens – to be sure, but one based on a new theory of
learning.
If I were will be teaching online, I must first consider how I will be using technology
with my students, I must observe first is they are employing technology daily in the classroom or
are they using variety of tools to complete assignments and create projects that show a deep
understanding of content. There are things I must consider since we are in an island province and
technology is at far, some of the students from rural areas are not well aware of the new trends in
technology or the worse scenario is that they don’t have gadgets or capacity to buy gadgets to
use for online learning. But the real, hard, painstaking, involved work of educating with
technology requires engaging students in their passion and imaginations, and helping them to
learn to thrive in the interconnected, global, digital world they have inherited.

4. In your own opinion, what makes a successful online student?


In this age of learner-centered learning, online instruction provides a unique opportunity
for learning materials, tasks, and activities to fit individual learning styles and preferences (Bonk,
Wisher & Lee, 2003). Learning styles along with other factors have an impact on the
characteristics of successful online students. Each student is different, how he or she obtain
information and apply it to their online learning will determine their success. Successful online
students must be well rounded, having characteristics to regulate, self-motivate, and manage
their time wisely: thus, successful online students must be responsible and have the ability to
adapt.

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5. Additional thoughts you’d like to share about online learning?
Yearly, numbers of students enrolled in one or more online classes or courses grows
rapidly. As such, distance education becomes more flexible and affordable option for higher
education learning. Online learners demanding mobile learning options but time management is
one of the factors for those struggling with online learning though some of the students want
interaction and personal connection. An effective course design is needed for clarity of
instructions, and ease of navigation within the environment to find resources and instructions
easily

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