E-Learning is a technology supported learning where the medium of instruction is via computer technology, particularly involving digital technology. E-Learning lessons are generally designed to guide students through information or to help students perform in specific tasks. Information based e-Learning content communicates information to the student. Lately in most Universities, e-learning is used to define a specific mode to attend a course or programs of study where the students rarely, if ever, attend face-to-face for on-campus access to educational facilities, because they study online. The Pros of E-learning from Students Perspective
There are severe advantages of E-Learning from student’s perspectives.
- Firstly, as we know, students will always faced financial problems since they do not have any income during their studies. Therefore, by having e-learning, it can help students in saving their cost by paying tuition fee, accommodation fee, transport fee and others. Students just need to have their computer or laptop with the internet connection and they can start their e-learning process. It is convenient for them and they can avoid some traveling cost compared to traveling and have their course in a campus as the traffic in Malaysia will be congested during the peak hour.
- Secondly, it is also convenient and flexible for students in such a way that students are not bound to a specific day or time to be physically attending classes. This is because e-learning sessions are available everyday anytime. Students can just online and start their studies whenever they are free. They can also pause learning sessions whenever they want or when they have some other things to be done.
- Furthermore, they will not be so tiring since they can just sit in their house and proceed with the studies without traveling from house to campus. E-learning can be done whenever and wherever they want. Students can proceed with their learning when they are not at home if they have the laptop with them. They can just fill up their free time with E-learning. Whenever they do not understand in some area, they can just post the question to the forum and people in the forum will have a discussion and try to solve their problems.
The Cons of E-learning from Students Perspectives
- One of the disadvantages of E-learning from student’s perspectives is students can hardly make friends by just communicating through internet. This is because they can not clearly understand the person’s personality and without face-to-face communication, is hard for a people to build a friendship and understand that person. Besides, students will lack of socialization skills and it will not be an advantage in their future when they need to work in the society. They might lack of some verbal communication skill since they are just communicating to each other via internet without speaking verbally to each other in the previous days. This will lead to some conflict when they are working in an organization.
- On the other hand, there is also a problem when students face difficulty or do not understand in some particular area, they can not get the solution on the spot whereas they need to post the question on the forum and wait for replies. Some how, even if their queries has been replied, the explanation given might not be accurate because they will not know the real identity of the person who replies whether they are expert or not. Moreover, if the explanation provided is not clear enough or the student’s problem still have not solve, students will face difficulty because they do not know where to find a proper person to make their queries cleared. Everything in this world will have their pros and cons, same goes to E-Learning.
Whether it is good or not is depends on personal perspectives. Students that prefer to have more personal space and more flexibility will prefer studies through E-learning compared to the traditional way which students are required to travel to the campus for classes while students that like to have more friends will more likely to stick with the traditional way.
By Sze Ying
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