- Online students gain experience and skills that will make them marketable in the 21st century.
- Online learning is active. Students analyze and evaluate independently while reading, writing, and discussing heavily. Because of this, many students find online learning more fun.
- Online learning is flexible. Based on their preferences and needs, students can work on a course at 2 p.m. or 2 a.m., at home or at school.
- Involvement in online learning after years of being in a classroom is rejuvenating. In addition to learning new technologies, students make discoveries about how to learn that they bring back to the traditional classroom.
- More students participate online because they are less self-conscious and less subject to the time pressure that can inhibit classroom discussions. Instructors, in turn, get enhanced one-on-one contact with students.
- Web site integration allows a larger variety of content and resulting opportunities for individualized learning. The whole world becomes the classroom.
- Through sharing ideas with other students through the Discussion Board, students can actually communicate more with other students than in a classroom where only a few students participate.
- Online instructors can be reached easily through email and discussion activities.
- Student have the potential of improving their ability to communicate through email and discussion groups, tools that are necessary in the modern electronic world.
- Students can develop their sense of personal responsibility for their own learning.
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