Introduction The impacts of online learning versus traditional classroom learning are significant, beneficial, and provide flexibility for busy, working adults. Whether you prefer convenience of online learning, or the face-to-face aspect of traditional learning, there are many different components, which will influence that decision. After reading this research paper, you will have a descriptive idea of why I chose to pursue online learning, and how I have become successful with it. For those…
Learning something new has always been frightening to me. I’ve only learned in a traditional classroom setting, so I knew online learning would take discipline. Through the years, family and close friends would encourage me to go back to school to finish my degree, but I never could fit school into my hectic schedule. After talking with my classmate, I began to visualize how important it was to finish my four year degree. I decided to submit the application and all the necessary documents to…
There are many false concepts surrounding the online learning environment, so if someone tells you online learning is not equivalent to attending the average brick and mortar school, then they do not have experience learning in an online classroom. This was my experience before attending the virtual classroom through the University of Phoenix and earning my associates degree with a concentration in the criminal justice field entirely online. In my online experience, all of the required materials…
Everyone learns in different ways. In order to succeed in an online learning environment, you need to step away from previous learning habits. You need to think outside of the box as far as school is concerned, and actively seek out the resources you may need. This is on-par with what I had expected of online learning. I have always been more open-minded when it comes to learning, so my views on the subject have not really changed. Being that everyone learns different things in different ways, I…
industry. At the same time, online learning, as a form of distance education, “imposes itself strongly and becomes a core concern of human thought and modern life.” (Saleem, 2016, p.53). As an untraditional method of education, online learning is very different from traditional ones. Those different make the outcome of online learning hard to be evaluated and examined. However, due to its low cost and high flexibility, online learning can help people achieve lifelong learning and may have a…
on “Is online education good or bad? And is this really the right question?”. He proposes that online education is neither a straight good or bad, rather a balanced analysis on both traditional and online education should be given. As shown below: “Enthusiasts of online courses say “of course it is good,” but I see this as a kind of “trick question.”” “In the same way that we can have good (and not so good) traditional classroom courses, we can also have good (and not so good) online…
Online Learning Technological development has brought more opportunities in education, in particular through online. Online learning (e-Learning) can be defined as “learning utilizing electronic technologies to access educational curriculum outside of a traditional classroom” (“What Is ELearning?”). Jeff Seaman, the Co-Director of the Babson Survey Research Group, said, “The rate of growth in online enrollments remains extremely robust, even as overall higher education enrollments have shown a…
In recent years, learning and communicating online has developed at an astonishing rate and as a powerful tool for communications. Based on my experience in this unit, my role as a consumer, producer, and contributor of information for professional and academic communication has given me prospects to own and influence my personal learning process. Identifying my strengths and weaknesses allows me the opportunities to develop strategies to overcome these prospects. Twenty-first-century literacy…
wave of technology era has under its arms the education sector, which is the most critical sector of one’s life and academic career. When it comes to productivity and choices of preference, online learning and classroom learning are an issue of debate. Both methodologies, online learning and classroom learning are here to empower learners with knowledge and skills. As two sides of a coins, both the approaches have their own advantages and limitations. Looking at both the ways from different…
(academic self-efficacy, academic self-regulation, cognitive style and self-efficacy for online technologies) to which was measured and examined during the analysis that took place. After the collective examinations, it was found that only cognitive style showed any true impact on podcasting with the current research. However, as the journal notes they worked…