The document discusses online learning and traditional learning, outlining their advantages and disadvantages. Online learning offers convenience and flexibility, but can be isolating and challenging for monitoring engagement, while traditional learning fosters face-to-face interaction and social skill development but lacks flexibility. Additionally, it compares costs, enrollment rates, and student perceptions of both methods, highlighting that a significant portion of educators and students find online learning comparable or superior to traditional methods.

2. What Is Online Learning ?
• Online learning often referred to as “eLearning”, or
“distance learning”
• Colleges nowadays use e-learning solution software as a
replacement for classes.
• This excellent learning methodology comes along with
convenience, greater flexibility, and greater accessibility.
• Lessons can be completed around your schedule without
leaving home or having to relocate depending on the rain,
snow, or sunshine.

3. Advantages of Online Learning
• On-Demand: Participants can access the learning content whenever it’s best for
them. The teacher can also give the participants control over when they see the
content and at what pace they see the content.
• Curation/collaboration of content: Another major advantage to online learning is
the ability for the class to curate and collaborate on content in the LMS hub.
• Modern medium: Many students and working professionals are on their laptop,
tablet or smartphone for a large part of the day. Online learning gives many
different mediums for students to absorb information in the method that’s most
effective for them.

4. Disadvantages of Online Learning
• Course Creator Responsible for Creating Community: It can be isolating learning
by yourself. Not getting to interact face-to-face with your classmates and teacher
can certainly take its toll.
• Maintaining and Monitoring Student Focus: It can be extremely challenging to
focus for long periods of time if you’re not in the same room as the teacher,
requiring your undivided attention. It’s very challenging for online educators to
monitor if the learner is engaged and participating fully in their class.
• Lack of faculty training : Due to a shortage of resources at many institutions,
meaning teachers never fully get trained on how to properly move their course
content into an online space.

5. What is
Traditional
Learning?
• Traditional learning almost always involves
communicating with a group of students in a
brick and mortar facility. The students gather in
physical classrooms within the facility during a
certain timeframe to learn about specific topics,
subjects or get specific hands-on job training and
experience.

6. Advantages of Traditional Learning
• Face-to-face learning: Learning in-person allows students and teachers to get to know each other much
better. Teachers can pick up on physical queues and nuances that would go unnoticed in an online setting.
Most importantly, interacting with a teacher face-to-face allows students to build trust with the educator.
• Creates good routines: For many children and young adults, the discipline of following a daily school
schedule establishes important routines and sets them up for success as a working adult.
• Hands-on examples: Educators can provide students with real life examples they can touch and interact
with. This is a crucial element for hands-on learners.
• Teaches good social skills: The idea of being put into a class with people of all different backgrounds and
personality types allows for countless social opportunities that you can’t experience in an online format.
• Better for physical health: Students are way more likely to get physical exercise if they have scheduled
time carved out each day to do so or have a campus gym nearby.

7. Disadvantages of Traditional Learning
• No flexible hours: Teachers and students might find the strict schedule of the educational
institution difficult to keep if they have multiple commitments or other jobs.
• Commuting: Driving back and forth to the facility every day takes up a lot of time for both
educators and learners.
• Larger student loans: The loans taken out by students who do traditional learning in-
person will be much greater due to living costs (residence or off-campus), commuting
and more expensive tuition.
• Passive listening: When educators deliver a lecture or lesson at the front of the class,
students can be left listening passively and the potential for disengagement skyrockets.

8. Online learning vs traditional learning costs
• Online degrees cost as little as 80 times less than traditional degrees
• Total average cost of traditional degrees: $90,000
• Total average cost of online degrees: $40,000

9. Online Classes vs. Traditional Classes
Depending on where you
live, family responsibilities,
full-time or part-time jobs
you hold, or what you are
studying, you may be able
to quickly decide if
pursuing an online
education is the right
choice for you.
For some, it feels like the
only option.
For others, it seems
perfectly ideal.
And for some, like a pre-
med student studying
biochemistry with a heavy
load of lab-intensive
courses, online classes
may be a complete
mismatch.
If you do decide to enroll
in an online college
course, or at least look
into the option at little
deeper, the sections below
will give you a taste of
what to expect, what you
need, and most
importantly, how to
succeed.

10. The enrollment rate in Online Learning
The total number of
students enrolled in
online courses:
6,700,000
Current number of
accredited online
universities: 275+
Amount of college
students who have
enrolled in at least one
online course: 30%
Whether online or in a
traditional institution,
67% of college
instructors believe
video, blogs, podcasts,
and other online media
are necessary teaching
tools.

11. What are students studying?
• Most Popular Bachelor’s Degrees for Traditional Learning
• Business
• Accounting
• Nursing
• Psychology
• Elementary Education
• Most Popular Bachelor’s Degrees for Online Learning
• Psychology
• Business
• Elementary Education
• Nursing
• Health Administration

12. Student’s perception of online education
77% of educators
believe that online
learning is just as good
as traditional learning,
if not better.
Nearly 70% of all
students claim online
instruction to be as
good as or better than
in a traditional
classroom setting.
26% of online
students claim to
learn better online
than in a classroom.

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