Advantages and Disadvantages to eLearning

What are the advantages and disadvantages tobooks, teacher's salaries and other materials.
eLearning? The most obvious advantage is thatBasically, the videos are created, with a slew of
most online training can be done at your pace,information for you and placed on the internet for
which is a huge advantage for all busy people.you to access. So besides the cost of making the
There are so many other advantages that mostvideos and CD's, hosting the material on a server
people have never even thought of. On the othermay cost the company. too. There is probably
hand, there are a few disadvantages to onlinemore overhead that what is mentioned, but it
learning. Let's take a closer look at why eLearningwould be minimal. Minimal overhead means you will
is the way of academics in today's busy worldsave money with online training because the
and what can make it unsuitable for you.company will not have costs that they need to
If you are up to date on the global crisis we arepass on to you.
under, you know all about global warming, naturalOne disadvantage to online learning is that you
resources that are running out quickly and treesmay not be that computer savvy. Even though
being cut down by the thousands and are notthe price would be right and you will helping the
getting replaced fast enough. So, what does allenvironment, you may have a difficult time
this have to do with getting an education online?maneuvering around an online course without
Well all of that leads up to one great advantagesome computer and internet skills.
of online training and that is, it affects the world inOne other disadvantage would be the fact that
a positive way. If you choose eLearning, your gashaving a real live person that you can ask
consumption is lowered by not having to drive toquestions of, like in a real classroom, may not be
a classroom. This will lower your vehicles gas andavailable. The programs do offer assistance to
maintenance bill tremendously. Also, by not addingany student that needs it, but the type of help
unnecessary fumes and gases into the air, lessmay not be as helpful to you if you are use to
driving means it will help protect our atmosphere.one on one and face to face assistance. This may
Think about all the trees that it takes to printbe a little frustrating.eLearning has it's ups and
reading material and exam papers. Thousands ofdowns, but in all actuality, it is the best way to
trees can be saved just by an online trainingget any education, if you live on a tight schedule
course.and an even tighter budget. Do not let the
Another advantage of eLearning is the cost is sodisadvantages discourage you because they can
much less than the cost of a traditional classroombe overcome.
setting. There is hardly no overhead such as