An Elearning Online Beginning

I recently enrolled myself to an elearning online course. The first time I heard about elearning was from a blog post from my friend. He said that e-courses was really good and flexible for working students; which of course, enticed me almost instantly especially that I have some part time jobs. I need money, you see.

When I think about it, I actually heard of elearning online before. I actually attended a lot of face-to-face lessons which eventually led me to take extra lessons because I couldn’t keep up with my part time job at Barley’s. It was quite the frustrating ordeal since it was mentally exhausting when the lessons were over then it was physically tiring during my work hours. This means that by the time I wake up the next morning I had totally forgotten the lesson the day before. For some reason my failing scores in Math have become a running joke among my group of friends.

Plus I get to stay at home. Staying home to complete all those stuffs, near bed, not much pressure, and not even much to care about whether the teacher would nag about how I didn’t listen to the previous formula because I was busy staring at Jen – that sounded good enough for me to apply for the e-courses. I can study hard as well as work hard all at a not so strict schedule.

Although in my opinion, electronic learning is good for those types of students who need enough time to get a certain lesson well-done in their head but for those types that really need classmates or teachers in real live flesh to get their learning mood on the go. I personally think that conventional or face-to-face training still remain relevant to any student or organization since most of the people grew up in such a setting. Elearning has become an integral part of training and development for many organizations, or so my dear friend Gumby blogs about.

Now I’m just excited to do all that elearning stuff, those online tests and exams with the online teacher in the next few weeks. Who knows, I might find new and better skills that I’m actually good at while I study.

Weighing the Good and Bad of Elearning

For me online courses have been a great help to the academic community. You see, the needs to positively respond to the changes in different sections of the academe have been increasingly difficult to bear with the tuitions inflating and cost of the educational programs are ballooning as well. The implementation of elearning development tools to the academe makes the costs easier to handle since there are no big fees to handle. It is only the equipments, and sometimes the lecturer if there is one, which relatively cost much.


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However, the online courses and elearning development tools are not without problems. As I have observed, it’s mostly the middle classes that partake in such virtual education. The quality of education primarily leans on the quality of the equipment and connection itself, leaving behind those with faulty machines or slow connections to a sluggish, troublesome course that they have to finish anyway since they already paid for it.

Another problem for online learning is the acceptance of the degree courses in higher echelons of the academe. To give fact, professors in universities highly disregard the degree held by cyber learning companies because for them, it seems that having a degree from an e-course is not entirely a sign of course mastery. The framework of their view is that there has to be a good accreditation. This problem would affect the student so much that eventually, after the period of education, unemployment may also become a problem for them since some companies would also prefer course work from a good university or at least an educational background that is good enough to pass for their basis of accreditation.

Still, the good thing is, those students who feel awkward or have problems in a classroom type of learning have the opportunity to learn more. Those students who can’t afford university education or have to work part-time now have the chance of getting a better education instead of simply stopping their schooling and continuing to work. And the best thing about all this, in my opinion, internet based academics have provided jobs for teachers, non-teachers, students and as well as part time work for those who need it.