Tuesday, November 20, 2012

Party Life Outweighs Studying in Online Education


Online education in the United Kingdom is starting to take over. Many students are reeling in the benefits of being able to learn when and what they want. Being a student is hard, balancing the workload, social events and the unexpected visit from your parents can be a struggle, this is where online education stands out. Giving students the option to choose a course of their choice and having the freedom to learn whenever they want 24 hours a day, 7 days a week is an enticing prospect.
Being able to learn from the comfort of your own home is an exciting positive from online education, with the UK’s university fees sky rocketing up to over £9,000 a year, online education is a cheaper more convenient way to learn these days.



University, of course, is about so much more than the teaching. There's the socialising, which many people associate in Britain as nothing more than drinking. There's the exciting prospect of living away from home and learning how to cook for yourself. You no longer have curfews, just pure freedom…
Great right?
No, because of these many disruptions, studies seem to slip past the radar, students concentrating on what drink they are buying before a night out seems to prioritise over an assignment. This is where online education comes in. With no timeline, students are free to still do all the exciting things they did before, with the added benefits of not struggling to wake up for a 9am lecture. 
Online education is a form of learning that puts the student in control; no longer do you have to worry about the distracting child in the classroom, no. You have the power to decide what you want to learn, no more boring early maths lectures. You make the decision on what course you want to do and when you want to learn it. The best thing about learning online learning is there is no timescale on learning, whatever the time, whatever the place learning never stops.

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