The Benefits Of Distance Education

The promising distance education

When you are walking in a street, you can often see that people usually carry with smart phones. As what we can see on today’s society, high-technology products such as smart phones and computers, are frequently used by people. As the technology of Internet high-tech network develops, distance education, also known as distance learning, is widely used by many students in recent years. According to Wikipedia, which is a globally well-known reference website, distance education is “the education of students who are not physically present at a school” (par 1). It’s unquestionable that it saves plenty of time for those students whose home is far away from school. Without travelling to school, they would have more

At this point, distance education is an excellent option for them, because it allows them to receive knowledge from various resources. “In distance education, the student located at a distance from the campus, and is educated through a mixture of media, specifically prepared printed text being central. Depending on resources, a wide variety of other media can be used, notably TV, video, and personal computers, all of which can be located at remote study centres and shared by a number of students” (Ozcan, 347). Under the advantages of distance education, students don’t have to follow the professors’ method to understand the concept of new materials; since most of the times, the solutions can be obtained in various ways. As a result, they can find the most suitable method to them. Moreover, when students study in class, they can just take notes and listen to whatever the professor presents in the lecture. In other words, the materials they study are very limited. Since there are so many resources that can be found from the Internet, students are able to learn more materials than what they could learn from their professors. Since it provides students diverse teaching materials and methods, distance education should be highly

An article discovers a drawback which could be “initial resistance to learn online computer technology from some faculty and students … because it takes time to learning a new online technology” (Lei 618). There is no denying that both faculties and students need some time to adjust to a new educational environment. Since they are used to teaching and learning through conventional education, it’s reasonable that distance education would not be comfortable to them. However, as Internet usage grows rapidly, it’s quite necessary for everyone to learn online technologies. Even though it would cost users considerable time, especially to those who rarely use computer in their daily life, considering its huge convenience, distance education is well worth