In his article, “Can You Be Education from a Distance?”, James Barszcz effectively weighs the pros and cons of online education compared to the traditional method, while effectively supporting his position with factual information and statistics. While distance education proves to be convenient for students, Barszcz asserts that it eliminates valuable experiences necessary in order to get the most out of the material being learned.
Therefore, distance learning is of a great benefit to Pacific Region student because it helps them to get better education in a more flexible and cheapest way of learning. However, it can be sometimes lonely, difficult and time lapse for learners to get information straight from the coordinator. For short, we can say that distance learning is the best learning mode for students in the Pacific Region.
The students who have the talent and desire to attend college but find themselves working full-time to provide for their families are the individuals whom may benefit the utmost from distance learning. This piece of technology gives them the ability to attend classes from the comfort of their homes. It may be that one income family where the mother or the father stays home to care for young children. The individual who does not have the ability to attend the traditional brick and mortar campus. Finally, that individual who is looking for a program that is not available in the town or city in which they
Distance learning is an alternative method of education in our society, which values time and convenience. Online learning, although not a tangible way to attend a university, allows those with families, people with busy lives, those with jobs, those with physical disabilities, and those who do not have access to universities or the right classes to learn the r skills they need, and attain the right degree, in order to work in our field of choice.
...st students who explore online learning options have a legitimate reason for preferring distance learning over the traditional college experience” (Chittom). Many students benefit from online schooling because of their personal reasons. Finally, a computer connected to the internet is very important for students who are in school to have access to.
I enrolled in my first online distance learning course in the fall of 2010 knowing that I had many challenges before me. I found this mode of learning fast paced, and challengin...
Currently, 96% of the universities in the United States offer some sort of distance education (Straighter Line, 2012). As the internet grows and technologies continue to grow, the prevalence of distance education will continue to soar.
We all know distance learning or conventional learning certainly take watchful arranging. There are numerous advantages and disadvantages of distanced learning. Numerous individuals may feel distance learning is the right learning style for them. I will demonstrate how looking at distance learning and customary learning that both of these are extraordinary relying upon whom the understudy may be and which instructive degree the understudy has picked.
Distance education (DE) has historically had a low success rate. "From past to present, dropout rate of students is [sic] one of the main problems regarding to [sic] distance education. Related research showed that approximately 30% and 50% of distance education students fail to complete distance education courses" (Horzum, 2012, p. 1). One institution, the University System of Georgia, is searching for new methods to improve the distance education model, for studies have revealed facts documenting that distance education graduation rates have declined and withdrawal numbers have increased despite the fact that traditional face-to-face instruction have remained unchanged; moreover, Coastline Community College interviewed several students regarding online education, and a substantial percentage of those students interviewed stated that they never intended to earn an online degree program (Nash, n.d.). Distance education courses were not taken seriously, nor where they viewed as a beneficial form of learning, for there are no p...
Moore, M. G., & Kearsley, G. (2005). Distance education: A systems view. 2ndEd. Belmont, CA:. Wadsworth.
Those who often prefer online learning are those who have families and work full-time jobs, and for others, it’s because the face to face was either full or not offered. Distance education emerged during the past few decades in response to the increasing needs of learners who are not able to participate in face to face learning. The rapid development of distance learning prog...
Phipps, Ronald and Merisotis, James (1999). What’s the difference? A review of contemporary research on the effectiveness of distance learning in higher education. Available: WWW URL: http://www.aaup.org/319let.htm
Phipps, R., & Merisotis, J. (1999). Executive summary. What's the difference?: A review of contemporary research on the effectiveness of distance learning in higher education (pp.1-8). Retrieved from http://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED429524.pdf
Many people think online education can be more expensive than a traditional school setting. Previous generations did not have the option for online learning experience, so why should we start now? An interesting point about online education is that LeBaron (2010) states, “The largest school in the U.S. is the University of Phoenix Online, with a whopping 380,232 students. That’s over 5x more than the largest public school, Arizona State University, which has 68,064 students” (para. 7). Despite the cost effectiveness, distance education is becoming the educational model of the future.
There have been many critics that strongly advocate against the use of distance learning in elementary schools. With the increased availability and choice of new technology, comes many new concerns about the quality of instruction and the threat it may pose to the already established methods of teaching. Many believe that this new teaching method may replace the existing classroom all together, and won’t give students the adequate face-to-face contact they need. Most critics fear that “ineffective face-to-face teaching methods could be made even worse when they become technology based” (Truell, 2001, p46). The computer and internet have become dominant distance learning technologies, and hold the potential to take away from the human aspect of learning, so students do not learn the proper social skills they need to develop early on. Children need to learn to interact with one another, and function properly in a social setting, they learn this primarily within the classroom, and if these classroom settings are altered by distance learning, then they will no learn how to function in the normal social school setting. Many critics also say that all schools do not have the appropriate technological support and infrastructure to make distance learning programs effective for students. Since all schools do not have the tools and financial means needed to establish and support effective distance learning programs, they would not be able to keep up with the advancing technology in education, and therefore their students would not receive the same advantages as other students in the schools around them (Ravaglia & Sommer, 2000). Greenwood (1998) states that schools using distance learning are just contracting out their educational responsibilities and that such courses result in the elimination of teaching jobs. He feels that by using distance learning to teach students, they are minimizing the teacher’s job of actually teaching the students and designing lesson plans, and therefore slowly eliminating the need for teachers in the classroom at all. It is thought that there is more emphasis being placed on teaching than learning, and as a consequence schools are using distance education as merely a means to extend the classroom walls . While the critics of distance learning feel that this is just a way for schools to educate students, and relieve themselves of their responsibilities, there has been even more substantial evidence that these programs improve the elementary curriculum, rather than replace it altogether.