University Degrees Via The Internet: The Way Of The Future?
Online learning is becoming very common in the educational landscape and the proponents of this education method believe that it is the way to the future. The ease with which the resources and information is gained from internet is not hidden where hundreds of thousands of people each day access many websites full of articles and many online libraries that somehow help them do what they have to in order to complete assignments and proposals. However, this fact is not hidden as well which describes that science and technology evolution always put forward some hazards in conjunction with the benefits. However, in the end it comes to the personal preferences where students like either face to face education or online learning. Perspectives of both have different advantages and disadvantages. The traditional education requires that students should attend the classes at pre-organized schedule based on the availability of the instructor. The instructor then delivers the lectures in real time trying to evaluate his different objectives. The presence of mind for both makes it easy for the instructor to know what is he teaching and the students have a better chance to understand what is being taught to them. In this mode of instruction, the skills generation is much better and the results are quite obvious as well because traditional education has given students different real skills which they can easily implement in their daily life. In this instruction mode students have to concentrate and have the facility to ask questions as the instructor moves forward with the lectures. This point seems less emphasized, but in reality this is how the student starts to learn effectively. The point of all this traditional education is to make student compatible in the future competitive environment which they can’t learn through online learning. The books can be read at home and so does the lectures but this cannot provide the real practical knowledge which students learn in a competitive environment in the classroom (Johnson, 2005). The traditional education has a curriculum that revolves around the instructor. The instructor has the responsibility to make it understood to the student in every possible way, therefore when students get to classes they are pretty sure that when they will leave classes they have learnt something which is quite contrary to the online education. Online education seems to lure with various benefits including no time schedule and ease of learning procedures but this is its biggest drawback. In online education students are not dependent upon the teachers. They have to go through slides and lectures provided by the university and it in the end is their responsibility to understand those lectures. More important point of debate is the interpretation. During traditional classes the teacher knows which points need emphasizes and which don’t and he can easily make students to interpret what is important. This is where face to face learning plays an important role in further careers of the students. Researchers believe that online learning is fine only when there are some constraints on the part of students and more importantly only when the student has the skills where he can understand on his own and these understanding skills can only established with the traditional learning. Therefore it is quite easy to state that face to face learning is far better than the online learning.









