Benefits of Online Teaching

5 Advantages of Online Teaching

 

 

1. Greater Anonymity

Greater anonymity can increase both the honesty and quantity of discussion participation. 

2. Discussion Grading 

 Discussion participation can be graded much more accurately and easily as D2L keeps track of the number of postings and a written record exists of all participation.  So the Time Saving from students not having to travel to and from and attend class, typically 40-60 plus hours per semester, can allow for much greater time to be spent on other learning activities, such as online discussion, which has important advantages over traditional in-class discussion, including students, as well as the instructor, can put more time, thought, and research into their input and enter the discussion more easily. 

3. Flexibility and Convenience 

 The flexibility, convenience, savings of travel time, and absence of conflict with work hours are very valuable to all types of today’s students, but especially nontraditional ones who’s numbers have increased greatly .Statistics showed that 58% of the students at public 4-year institutions are in some way nontraditional, with many being single parents These students are especially at risk of never attaining their degree, as studies have shown. Internet courses can make life much easier, thus increasing the likelihood that nontraditional students won’t drop out because there is just more than they can handle. Traditional students also benefit significantly. A Campus survey study conducted during the 2011-2012 school year found that 81 percent of incoming freshmen said they planned to work while attending the University and sixty-one percent of university students work 11 hours or more per week. 

4. Cost Savings 

 An online course requires no classroom, thus saving on building, parking, and maintenance costs. An increase in internet courses could decrease the need to build new facilities and infrastructure in a time of budget cutting. 

5. Global Reach 

 Online classes allow someone living hundreds of miles away from the nearest university, where roads and other means of access are poor, to learn from world class universities, through just a satellite dish or telegraphed Wi-Fi system and public computers at a library or community center, or at kiosks like those going up all over rural India. Thus, online courses can provide great opportunity to people in need in developing countries, but in developed countries too they can increase student opportunities and horizons.