Too Fast to Lea(r)n on Online
Presently, technology has been growing really fast and it is considered as an essential thing in everyone’s life. Computer and Internet are technologies that should be called as world-changing things. Because of the development of network technology, most educational institutions like schools and universities tend to seize this opportunity by creating their own online learning or also known as e-learning systems to enlarge students’ chances to study. Online learning has been improving since the late 1990s for extend learners (Cross, 2004). It is compared with face-to-face learning a lot whether they are as good as each other. In my point of view, online learning will never be as efficacious as face-to-face learning. …show more content…
There are three determinants of the cost of online learning, which are main and repetitive costs, production and development costs, and fixed and inconstant costs, where equipment and equipment restoration are included in main and repetitive costs, improvement of the tools is in production and development costs (Bartolic-Zlomislic & Bates, 1999). At the same time, traditional classroom requires a lot less payment than online learning since it does not need to repair electronic equipment, all it requires is just classrooms, teachers, and students. Online learning needs ability to use technology like computer and Internet. It is mandatory to acquire costs in making sure efficiency for online learning action in any macro change, one example is the costs possibility, which involved in basic technological training for students is up to the participation in courses (Marengo & Marengo, 2005). In addition, online learning is not suitable for all age range, where it is more difficult for adults to learn how to use it as shown in Figure 2 that the number of students applied for online learning tends to be decreasing as the age goes