How Online Learning Can Benefit You

Student Centered

• Online learning is active. You analyze and evaluate independently while reading, writing, and discussing. Because of this, many students find online learning more fun.
• You are encouraged to express yourself with your classmates and professors through email and discussion groups, tools that are necessary in the modern electronic world.
• Many students participate more online because they are less self-conscious and less subject to the time pressure that can inhibit classroom discussions. Instructors, in turn, provide one-on-one contact with students.
• Course assignments appeal to many learning styles and intelligences.

Flexible

• Based on your preferences and needs, you can work on a course at any time from any Internet connection.
• You will have new opportunities for guided independent learning built into a class with others. The whole world becomes your classroom.
• Involvement in online learning after years of being in a classroom is rejuvenating. In addition to learning new technologies, you will make discoveries about how to learn that you can bring back to the traditional classroom.
• You will develop a sense of personal responsibility for your own learning.

Convenient

• Course materials are available independent of time and place.
• You can take quizzes or exams online and receive immediate feedback, with an online grade book to help you chart your progress.
• You can review assignments, conduct research from online libraries, and not be concerned with lost syllabi, handouts, lecture notes, assignment instructions, or grades.
• Online instructors can be reached through email and discussion activities.