Tuesday 12 March 2013

Online learning sees unprecedented growth

With internet and its wide spread reach and affect our lives, it has revolutionized the way we work, connect, network or even learn these days. Online learning is now coming of age and lighting up a million lives with its many advantages compared to the conventional way to learn, impart education and acquire a degree. With the recent spurt in online learning websites, many people have furthered their learning and acquired the degrees that evaded them in their young and age of education.

What is new about online learning?
Online learning is seen as the future and face of learning as time goes on and progresses. With its inherent capabilities and advantages, it is now seen as future of education. Many colleges, universities, and professors are now reaching much more student base through the online learning, courses, websites and modules.

· These are simplified and more graphic to make sure that the student is able to understand what they are studying.
· Online help is available through the subject matter experts to guide the students in any questions, queries, issues or problems they might face.
· Assignments, evaluation and tests are also designed and undergo checks for plagiarism or reference checks to ensure the authentic submission of the same ensuring an ethical and clear marking/grading system in place
· Online learning reduces costs for the students, allows for choice of time and space
· The online courses allow universities to have a global reach and accessible to a larger student database each day.



What holds the charm in online learning?
Even though there are many inherent advantages of online learning, more than anything it is ability to get a degree at an affordable cost from reputed and a famous educational institution at affordable costs and at own discretion and speed of learning, that has many prospective students interested and keener on exploring the online learning options. Websites allow interested people to select the courses they want and proceed to complete the same at nominal costs. In addition, self-paced study and ability to effectively manage work-life balance puts online learning in a better light.

With easy access to online learning facilitators and courses that vary from simple to most complex subjects, one has the ability to learn anything one wants. In many cases, the student is able to acquire a degree or skill that is not available or accessible to him/her otherwise or in his university or school. While online learning opens your avenues and lets you explore more avenues, it also is an opportunity to share your knowledge through community learning and sharing pages and contribute to the success of others at their learning endeavors as well.

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