How Effective is Online Learning?
Contrary to some professional’s perceptions, online learning is highly engaging and fosters daily interaction with professors and other students. Instant messaging, email, video chat, conference video chatting capabilities, power point presentations, screen sharing and an entire host of other multimedia options bring a live classroom right to your home. The digital era has truly changed the game for web based learning experiences. Online schools, teachers and students have long said that online learning is no easier than traditional campus based learning. As testament to this, many major leading universities have implemented online learning programs over the past few years. Lots of general education courses that typically have hundreds of seats occupied by freshmen are now being offered online. For instance, freshmen majoring in business at the University of Florida have the choice of taking an introductory economics class online or attending a live meeting in a lecture hall with sever
