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do online learning.
Second, online learning requires internet using skills and expensive devices. They
need to have internet using skills so as to take online lecture. Before taking online lecture,
they must download a few programs for video playing. If video playing programs do not run
or an error occurs, they have to take action to make programs run immediately. However, it is
hard to take internet lecture if they do not have the skill. In addition, they need to get some
expensive devices to take online lectures. Laptop or printer that help student to prepare class
materials by themselves are essential devices, but these are so expensive actually. The
Average price of a laptop on the online market is about nine hundred dollars (Ryu 1). It is
very costly to students who cannot afford it financially. Moreover, private lecture or other
ones ask for additional tuition fee and financial burdens raise naturally. For these reasons,
students having poor internet using skill or financial difficulty cannot take online lecture
easily.
However, some people think that students can have a convenient interaction with
teachers in many ways by online learning. There are positive aspects of online learning. It is
easier to interact each other than face-to-face learning. Patients or handicapped people cannot
go to educational institutions easily, so online learning have simpler system for all of them.
For example, contents developers developed the content that is made by integrating three
dimensions technology into online education to help handicapped people (Kim 4-5). Man is a
social animal, though, they are destined to make direct connection in every environment. In
environment of education, direct interaction and continuous feedback is important to student
as well. There are five fundamental principle of teachers feedback and one of them is
continuity. Continuity is that written feedback should constantly react according to the
change of students level and step (Lee 149). Students depend on the internet message board
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to post questions. When teacher notice the question, only then does he answer the question. If
student has another question about the answer, he will ask another question and teacher may
notice it later. It repeats and takes a long time. On the other hand, on face-to-face learning,
students can have an immediate interaction on the spot. Online learning does not have a same
thing, so they cannot get quick feedback and have direct interaction from teachers.
Although online learning is more convenient method than face-to-face learning, there
are some flaws definitely. Student doing online learning has to endure these things to do it.
These days, many students are taking online learning method because of convenience and it
is sad that real connection between teacher and student has disappeared. As the number of
online learning programs are increasing and size of private online lecture market are
evolving, more and more students can have a chance of using online learning freely and fairly
when these inconvenient things are corrected.
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