I chose this article for the purpose of showing the challenges of online learning and balancing the schedule of online college learning and normal day-to-day life. I remember a time when I graduated high school, and thinking I didn’t need college, I quickly found out that I didn’t know as much as I thought I did. So I made the decision to go to college, and not just any old college, I needed to do it online because of working full time and having a family. I thought it would be the easiest thing but I was surely wrong in this assumption. Online students face any challenges. Such as not being able to just walk to your professor when needed or interacting with students face to face. All of these factors can have severe or very rewarding consequences but this all depends on how well students adapt to the unique challenges of online learning as I will discuss throughout this essay.
One of the main topics in this article is also one of the most important points to successful online learning, self-regulated learning. Self-regulated learning allows students to regulate how and when they learn to better accommodate them in their learning process which in turn can promote more successful outcomes in the learning process. Technology self-efficacy is also very important because online students have to learn a variety of new programs in order to submit and complete school assignments. Students’ characteristics are vital in online learning because for some people it is hard to adapt to not being able to speak face-to-face with your instructor. With all of these factors in mind course outcomes are influenced by the individual’s ability to adapt to these learning environments.
I have learned from this article by means of simply putting myself in a category with people who participated in this study and had good outcomes in their courses. It has challenged me to take a look at how