Advantages Of Online Study Vs Face To Face

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We are living in an era of growing innovation of new technology where most community college and university are accepting and offering online courses for those opt out the traditional classroom courses. This new distance education are now widely accepted by many higher education institution and mostly appreciated by many students who daily schedule are not suitable for them to attend traditional classroom courses. The purpose of this paper is to find out the differences of success rate of online study versus traditional face-to-face study?. If there is a difference, what are the factors contribute to the differences? and what suggestion should it be done to make it more successful? According to the new report from Community College Research …show more content…

Are they, those decided to take online courses, setting themselves up for failure by picking online classes? The number one reason for online study is the flexible schedule. This reason indicated on the finding of Xu and Jaggers studies: most online students hold more working hours incomparison to face to face students, exhibit in their Table 1.2, Fall term of 2004, online students hold 14% employment status versus to 1% face to face students; Spring 2004 online students hold 17% versus 3% face to face students, and Winter 2005, online students hold 19% employment status versus 2% employment status of the face to face students. The studies show that first year students are inexperience with online study. They enrolled on an online study because of a myth that online courses are much easier then traditional campus courses. Little did they know, faculty design for online courses ensure the same quality and challenges courses online as traditional campus courses. The second reason for them to decide in online study is to get away from structural study. First time college mean freedom from home and from school structural. Another studies from Barret Seaman, an author of Binge, Campus Life in an Age of Disconnection and Excess, where he follow a college students to see a day like as a freshman year and how much study time they have in a day.

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