Should Online Learning Be Encouraged?

Should online knowing be motivated?
Online learning assigns technology and multimedia in education which has actually been well developed in established universities and community schools which are well equipped with ICT. Online learning has been a popular kind of education imminently among those who requires a versatile research study schedule to suit their job hours while in the mean time making every effort to earn a scroll of credentials which is supported by a research with more than 50% of students voted that it lessen the issues on timetabling.

Besides that, a vast bulk of 4 5th trainees favours online knowing as there are courses provided which are not available in schools (The news 2007). Nonetheless, online knowing could not fully excel or changed the old approach of finding out as there are some barriers such as, it is only ideal to a small minority of students and substantial training is needed for teachers.

Most importantly, the majority of the trainees in this period have been taught with a teacher through face to deal with interaction and this group of trainees would rather find out the standard method in choice to utilizing the internet or multimedia (Mussared 2007).

Moreover, it is a lost for trainees who tend to hesitate and put things off. Students who are enrolling through online knowing need to be well geared up with self discipline and great time management. Also it is necessary that the trainees are encouraged all year round to finish the projects and avoid distraction when surfing the internet.

Dominguez( 2007) discussed that he experience himself quickly being drawn away into doing something else when feeling unmotivated. Apart from that, there needs to be additional training and skills to be cultivated by teachers to teach trainees via online. In order to develop a successful online learning course, both celebration, the instructors and the students need to have sufficient IT abilities and the ability to send or retrieve files associated with the course.

This is a major problem that hinders online learning from becoming prevalent. Students or teachers with inadequate skills or technology cause the process of learning to decline. In the mean time, in a survey carried out, over half of the students doubts the quality of the course ( EduCon Pty Ltd 2007). The South Australian Gazette (2007) questions the credibility of a student obtaining a qualification through an online course and will the use of ICT increase the number of false certificates produce? Additionally, another issue arises for the science students as it is difficult to carry out laboratory work or hands-on science practical if the courses were online. This is supported by 30% of science students who felt a slight drawback on science courses which are offered online as it lacks practical work (EduCon Pty Ltd 2007). Besides that, Jerry a student taking an online course commented in a forum that when learning online, the questions posted by students will not have instant responds or replies from the teachers which is a drawback (Roy 2007). In a traditional classroom atmosphere, students tend to raise their hands and ask for further clarification on the spot when they do not understand the subject and the teacher would put effort to enlightened the student on the matter whereas this is will never occur in an online learning atmosphere. The urge of asking or query might die down over time if the student does not ask there and then which is a big loss.

All in all, online learning does have its perks take for instance online learning allows students to repeat subjects without sacrificing their job but this is only true for certain subjects and courses which offer online courses. Despite the advantages, there are more challenges and obstacles that have to be encountered to develop online learning courses which outweighed the advantages. Therefore, online learning should only be encouraged to a certain extend as it is highly impossible to stopped learning and gaining knowledge without a teacher spreading his or her knowledge in front of students face to face.