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.