What is online learning?
Online learning, also known as “online education”, uses the anytime, anywhere power of the Internet to deliver classes where and when it is convenient for you. There is no campus to travel to and no set class times to attend. Your class materials and resources are available to you online 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. The online learning environment functions much like a classroom setting but without everyone in the same place at the same time. You have access to lecture materials, interaction with your instructor and classmates, and assignments administered through your online class. Classes run on the same semester schedule as on-campus classes, the difference is you decide when during the week you work on class content and weekly assignments while still working through the course. John Wood offers online classes to help students who need a flexible schedule achieve their educational goals.
Online Learning is a Web-based learning environment that enables you and your instructors to interact via a computer, free of time and place constraints. You can engage in learning at any time, and at any place suitable to you (as long as you have a computer with Internet access). This means that you will be able to fit your learning around family, work, and recreational activities.
Also referred to as distance education, online learning is based on courses offered online that do not require the student to be on campus for class participation. Students can work with course materials at their own convenience, at their own location. According to the U.S. Department of Education, online learning is defined as “the acquisition of knowledge and skills through mediated information and instruction. [It] encompasses all technologies and supports the pursuit of lifelong learning for all.
Online learning, eLearning, or Web-based learning are common terms used to describe distance education delivered over the Internet. While a great many?online courses use rather pedestrian technology (e.g., text-laden Web pages, threaded discussion boards, and e-mail), a few are also incorporating blogs, wikis, podcasting, interactive multimedia, streaming audio, or video conferencing.
