Personal Thoughts on Learning Online Courses
I always have at least 1 course in online format in my schedule every semester. The reason is simple, is all about the “convenience”. After my first semester in college, I realized that as an international student, it’s very hard for me to run a full 18 credits schedule all in a face-to-face lecture format. The normal class time will take down the whole day-time period and force me to do all those textbook-reading and homework in the night-time, and these heavy workload schedule didn’t bring me any good grades and knowledge in that first semester. Therefore, after having a time to discuss this with my adviser, I found out that changing some of the lecture courses into online courses will be the best solution for me. Why is that the case? While, despite the “convenience” characteristic of online course, there’re also other advantages of learning online when compare to the face-to-face format courses: time-saving, schedule flexibility, etc. It is quite obvious that when we learn stuffs through online courses, it’s mostly based upon the students ourselves to decide most of the timing and process of the study, whereas in the face-to-face format it is the teacher that decide all these things.