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Benefits & Considerations
Benefits & Considerations
Benefits of learning online
- online learning can offer a rich learning experience
- more collaboration between teacher and learner
- learn at your own time and pace
- courses tailored to individual needs and lifestyle
- direct access to links and resources relevant to your course
- interactive and stimulating learning materials
- feedback to questions and assignments is faster
- gain more IT skills as you learn
- opportunity to engage in discussions with staff and learners at convenient times
- ability to undertake online assessments
- available on a 24 hour 7 day basis
- overcomes the tyranny of distance
- easy to update the content
- reduces travel time and travel costs
- accessible anywhere in the world with Internet access
- builds self-knowledge and self-confidence.
Considerations of learning online
- users need to be confident and competent to operate hardware and software
- lack of motivation can hinder progress
- access to reliable technology is essential
- must be self-disciplined
- feelings of isolation
- difficulty in reading information off the screen
- slow internet connections may lower the performance of multimedia
- downloading applications may take time.
Last updated 9 February, 2006