Online Learning

I am enjoying the Christmas break by relaxing, shopping, and taking walks in the city with my girlfriend. It snowed a lot a few days ago and the city is beautifully covered in white colors. I wanted to post something that I wrote for a project at Berkeley College. I feel that it is relevant since I just finished two online classes.

Albert Einstein ones said, “A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?” A contemporary answer to this question could be “The Internet.” The Internet has changed many habits and it is now also changing the way we learn how to change, through education.

Online learning is growing in significance for each day. It started with a couple of online messaging programs that made conversation and the delivery of instructions possible. It now involves interactive video conferences, active testing of students, and liberal attendance policies that actually leads to greater ways of distributing knowledge.

The cellular phone helped people save time; it encouraged efficiency, and led to increasing national growth. The Internet is a continuation of this. Students do not have to spend hours on commuting to and from school, missing valuable time that could be used to do business. “Benjamin Franklin explained why: “Time is Money.”

Most of today’s students use the Internet regularly and visit website like “Facebook,” “MySpace,” and “Twitter,” on a daily basis. These websites involve communication with others and often entail conflicts. It is now time to bring it to a new level; group discussions for educational purposes. Early research has shown that it is not as easy to communicate with people never interacted with before. This, in itself, is leading to a new issue, manners on the Internet.

These are all factors that make online learning exceedingly exiting. Online learning will change future interactions, lead to even greater efficiency, and may even be part of a new technology that can save this country from future recessions. We are all engaged in it, and now is the time to test-run and challenge this new way of learning.