Benefits of online learning

Online learning whether it’s a high school diploma, university degree or a course, has its benefits. Today, online learned has gained tremendous popularity and as a result its quality has enhanced. One of the major benefits of online learning is that it allows you to advance in your career as well as other skills and hobbies due to the greater flexibility that you have. You would easily be able to fit your schedule around your learning as you don’t have to attend a class at a specific time. The main benefit from this greater flexibility is that you would be able to gain more work experience and learn new skills that would help you advance in your career.

Another main benefit is that you would be able to choose the environment in which you would like to study in. It can be in a coffee shop, in your bedroom or even while working out! This also means that you are saving lots of time as you wouldn’t need to commute to classes. Not only does that save time but it saves money as well. The costs of housing and transportation would be eliminated, which gives the opportunity for more people to attain a degree from that university and gives the chance to increase your savings. Besides that, if a university student wants to attend summer classes but is spending the summer away with their family or is working a summer job, then online learning would be the solution. The student would be able to take the classes online and then transfer their credits to their university. This would help students continue their learning as well as finish university at their own pace, whether that is faster or slower.

Online learning teaches you self-discipline and responsibility as you are on your own physically.  You would need to self-motivate yourself and manage your time properly in order to stay focused on deadlines. These skills wont only benefit you during your studies, but they will also be an advantage in the workplace that would make you stand out.

Other than that, attaining your education online gives you more options regarding what you want to study. You would be able to choose the field that you are truly interested in without any location restrictions.

Some might assume that online learning means no interaction whatsoever with other students and professors. But that is not the case, as online courses provide chat forums or any form of discussion sites through which students would discuss class material, exchange ideas and learn from each other. Furthermore, students can join virtual study groups on Google Hangout or Join Me. This would all help you in exchanging ideas and get questions answered on topics that you were stuck on.

All in all, online learning provides several benefits that would help you save money, time, focus more, develop new skills, have greater flexibility and convenience, study at your own pace, learn self-discipline, responsibility and self-motivation.

Sources:

• https://online.illinois.edu/articles/online-learning/item/2017/06/05/5-benefits-of-studying-online-(vs.-face-to-face-classroom) Date accessed: (December 5,2019)
• https://www.straighterline.com/blog/34-top-secret-benefits-of-studying-online/ Date accessed: (December 6,2019) 
• https://oedb.org/ilibrarian/10-advantages-to-taking-online-classes/  Date accessed: (December 6, 2019)