Advantages And Disadvantages Of Online Learning

Nowadays, with the development of the internet, the education system provided via the Internet is being improved and has been enhancing along with the development and advance of Internet. According to Poniatowski (2012) since the Internet emerged as a potential means of providing education, researchers not only research about the effective but also research the effectiveness of its performance. As a result of Arbaugh, Marks & Sibley (2005) where by online courses has been popular due to both the desire of instructors to provide value-added content. Internet courses at the graduate level have expanded from a few initial pilot courses to a rapid growth in the past few years. Before the emergence of the e-learning since a few decades, educators and teachers usually use traditional approach for their

In traditional instruction, many students normally learn from the instructor-led approach or in other words instructor meets the learners in face to face meeting. Moreover, the traditional approach still has some disadvantages in teaching and learning process, Razali & Yahya (2006). Anything that has advantages and also disadvantages. At the present time, Online Learning has become a very important part of students life because it is helping them in many ways and improve many skills. According to Markovic (2010) e-learning has proven to be a very popular and acceptable way of studying, owing to its flexibility, as well as its higher degree of innovativeness in terms of introducing new and contemporary programs in comparison to traditional faculties. In contrast, it is also harming students in many ways. Consequently, all of them need to know the benefits and drawbacks of Online Learning in order that students can take full advantages of