There's Risks also Involved in Online Learning

The number of benefits for online learning are numerous and to some people may even seem just "too good to be true!". There's usually risks involved in any life changing decision a person makes, including deciding which school a future student will attend. For starters, online courses are more expensive than classroom courses.Why tough if you are covering the same materials as you would had you attended the class in a face-to-face setting? Possibly for the convenience it provides the students, or the fact that you don't have to pay the college for parking fees. There are also many advertisements on web pages, including on Google when you search "online classes" in the search bar. The advertisements that appear are not all recognized programs, but how is anyone shopping for online courses supposed to know that they could be falling into a trap? It is very important that each learner do their homework prior to enrolling in any program or course to ensure it is recognized and certified in their area of study. There are plenty of "bogus" courses offered online that are just money scams, the course must be recognized for you as a learner to actually receive acknowledgement from your employer, or other colleges if you are completing your course as a prerequisite to another college/university program. It is extremely important when enrolling into a course or program that provides a registration or license of some sort that the shopper contact the licensing body prior to enrollment into the course to ensure that the course is recognized and qualified as a requirement to the license that the learner is looking to obtain.

This link is enlightening to the e-learn shopper. Risks involved in online learning

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Campbell, A. (2012). What's the deal with online learning.Retrieved from http://ashleacampbellwriting.blogspot.ca/2012_01_01_archive.html