Essay #2 - Rewrite

HyeonSeon Choi

Prof. Kyle Brebner

IERW (04)

20 November 2015

Advantages of Online Courses

The 21st century can be referred to as the digital age. Therefore the current system of education also needs to change in a modern way. Although there are many online lectures at the university, most lectures are offline course that we have to go to the lecture room. It is a very inefficient way to earn a full degree by visiting the campus five days a week in today’s digital age. Online courses are a beneficial way to educate because there are no time and space constraints, online courses can repeat several times, and they are easy to communicate.

One benefit of online courses is that students can listen to class in anywhere and anytime they want. There are many students who came from outside of Seoul. According to Wikileaks’s statistics, some 60 percent of the municipal university's freshmen came from outside of Seoul. Even in my department in university, there are more students who came from outside of Seoul than students who came from Seoul. It takes a minimum of one hour to go to university for them. It is ineffective for both students and professors. Online lectures can solve this problem. Students can take classes when and where they want, and professors also can record the lecture anytime and anywhere they want. If we have a computer, it is possible to listen to the lecture in a situation that we are sick or when it is hard to go to university if we had a computer.

Another reason why online courses are convenient is that they can repeat many times. When students listen to classes, they may have many questions they do not understand. However in classroom they cannot ask to repeat the whole lecture because there are other students who understand the content and class time is limited. Online courses make it possible to understand the content easier. It is easy to repeat the whole lecture and also the part they want to hear again. So students can review all the time, over and over.

Finally, the last advantage of online courses is that students can communicate easier in online. If they do not know certainly even though they repeat the courses, then they can ask a question online. The way of asking question is simple and easy to communicate between students and professors or students each other. Also in online classes, students can have a discussion in the form of chat rooms. In terms of assignment submission, they can submit in online without print.

Online courses have many advantages over offline courses. They can save time and space, students can repeat the video again and again, and students can easily interact each other and with their professors. Students these days are always pressed for time and online courses can save their time. Therefore, online courses will become more and more common and offline courses and university buildings will disappear in the near future. So, I think that backboards, tables, chairs and books which do not necessary for online classes will be disappear soon because digital technology is developing fast while analogue technology is in a state of decline.