Compare Online Education to Face to Face (Traditional) Education

Compare Online Education to Face to Face (Traditional) Education

  • Submitted By: Toandt
  • Date Submitted: 11/24/2010 9:02 AM
  • Category: English
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Human interaction is vital to education. Especial, when the information technology grows rapidly recently and the computer changed the world, people can choose some methods in education, as online education. There are a lot of difference between traditional education and online education. To reach a decision to find a suitable method to study and research, an attendant should compare traditional education and online education in terms of time and place, infrastructure, age, and teamwork.
Firstly, the obvious different between the two educational methods is time and place. In traditional education, the attendants are required to attend at the class in time and right place. Time usually begins at 8 o’clock in morning and ends at 6h o’clock in afternoon. Regardless of the bad weather, this rule don’t change. On the contrary, in online education, the attendants can learn everywhere they can and every time they want. Time is flexibility and unlimited. In addition, they don’t waste time to go to class in everyday.
Secondly, traditional and online education don’t have the same infrastructure. To attend a online class , the attendants must have a computer what is connected to the internet before (the computer sometimes need to be installed some support programs). However , to organize a traditional class, the traditional system must prepare a complete infrastructure include a class, a lecture, books, and the equipments as a slide projector or a blackboard.
Thirdly, there is great disparity in the attendants’ age of traditional and online education. In online education, the age of the attendants is without mentioning. On the contrary, the tradition system defines by regulation every age limit’s attendant.
Finally, in the traditional system of education, a group discussion and teamwork can be enable so the entire process of education is more interesting. The attendants can sit face-to-face, share their ideals , thus the response would be generated. People...

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