Distance Education Advantages

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Learning in a different light
Making the shift from the traditional face-to-face classroom learning to distance education was definitely not an easy decision to make. Given the fact that during the time when I planned for my college life, I received much opposition and negative comments from my classmates who doubted that there won’t be benefits from this distance education and this decision might ultimately lead me to drop my course and as a result, wastes my time and money. In addition, my classmates believed the dependency of distance learners to electronic devices are not appropriate for my lifestyle because unlike the typical residential learners, students who are studying in this uncommon mode of education mostly rely on computers and …show more content…

In addition to my realizations of the advantages of distance education, I comprehended that my day-to-day routine as a distance education student is appropriate for me – opposite to what my classmates …show more content…

First, distance education made me an independent learner. Since assignments, discussions and quizzes aren’t closely monitored by the professor, I need to be self-reliant when it comes to fulfilling my academic duties. Also, I developed the skill of being self-reliant overtime because of the majority of the course work such as assignments and even projects have to be made individually. Another effect of being a distance learner made me develop the skill of time management and discipline. The flexibility of the schedules and the lack of a physical professor and classmates to remind me of the deadlines of my course work tempt me to procrastinate. As a countermeasure, I need to develop proper time-management so that I can put my school work in top priority before doing other things. Aside from the flexibility of the schedules, the fact that I had to mostly stay at my house that has full of distractions like television and electronic tablet to perform my academic school work paved way for the inculcation of discipline for the development of my

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