Online Education: Online Vs. Traditional Class?

The progress in technology has affected many aspects of human’s lives, including in the way of learning. Today, students are given the option to attend class traditionally like in a classroom setting, or nontraditional through online classes. While there are many similarities between online and traditional classes, the differences can be quite remarkable. Both ways of learning require teacher accessibility and instructions, course materials, assignments and tests, and collaborations. Though, they both differ in scheduling, resources, student interactions, and independency. One way online classes differ from traditional classes is the scheduling. Online classes offer more flexibility than attending a class in the classroom. Students who participate …show more content…
When taking online classes, it is easier to access the Internet right there when completing an assignment. Traditional classes might be held in classrooms that do not have access to computers; therefore, the students must wait to do research on a certain topic. Students in the classroom are only available to the courses book unless taken to the library or computer lab. With online classes, there is more freedom in which the student can look up information on their computer or go to the public or school library to research while working on an assignment. Students must only research the information they can get from their book until they are given the time to research in other places. This makes it easier and quicker for students in online classes to complete an assignment than in a traditional class resulting in those students to complete more …show more content…
Students that are attending online classes are responsible for completing their assignments and test while also learning the material by themselves. On the other hand, traditional classes have a teacher to teach the students by giving them handouts, taking notes, watching videos, and the ability to ask questions and receive an answer right away. With online classes, there is only the student so losing focus in the middle of an assignment can only be controlled by the student themselves, while in traditional classes the teacher can see the students faces and whether they are focused or not; resulting in the teachers being able to refocus the students’