Most people have very busy lives, thus not leaving much time for anything else. Many would like to have time to return to school for different reasons; earn a higher degree, taking a class on something they enjoy or even to make an career change. Whichever reason you decided to continue your education you will find there are a lot of benefits to an on line class. Although popular, these classes have their advantages and disadvantages.
Breaking news just in, it has been confirmed that “in support of creating standards for online learning, the U.S. Department of Education will be providing 1.8 million dollars to the National Center for Accessible Media. This seems to be an appropriate announcement that could have been made on any news channel back in 2001. As most do not realize, the internet and education have been linked together extensively for a period of time. In fact, online classes have already assumed a role in college bound student’s lives. The question is whether professors and universities are willing to take the extra step in making the internet the primary source of communication for the classes they teach. This piece will provide an insight to the benefits of online classes from several different points of views. Online teaching is defined as any educational activity that requires a student to complete some learning or assessment activity via a personal computer and a connection to a network. This network connection is to the Internet. It is a seen by the Murdoch University Academic Council as a teaching and learning technology, not a method of study (2003), but this depends on how it is to be used and by whom. For example, a distance education student using online teaching would be more inclined to see it as a study method than a student who uses online teaching to download and print lecture notes to attend a lecture on campus.