Pros and Cons of home learning


[ This blog specifically made about home learning but i love mixed it up with distance learning since who cares ]


Hi, welcome to my video which we will learn pros and cons about home learning, before we jump into it, I would like to introduce myself. My name is Nathaniel.
First of all, lets learn what is home learning, home learning is basically a way of disseminating knowledge, where the educators and students are separated in distance or time or even both. Undoubtedly, home learning offers wide variety of opportunities to students to attain higher education, but it is not all about benefits and advantages indeed

Pros
     Home Learning are Very Flexible
Since home learning programs don't require you to be physically present in a classroom or follow a predefined timetable, you are free to set your own schedule. Distance education provides you the flexibility to complete your coursework from anywhere, at any time, and at your own pace. You have an important chore to run in the morning? No problem - log in to complete your schoolwork that afternoon or later that night.

     Get educated even with a tight budget
Online education helps you to save on costs like fuel, parking, books, and more. And since so many of these programs are self-paced, they can offer you the opportunity to graduate in less time than a traditional program.

     Online courses help you become tech-savvy
Home learning programs make use of sophisticated technology to provide education. By accessing study material electronically, submitting assignments via websites, and participating on online forums to interact with teachers and classmates on a day-to-day basis, you can become more technologically savvy than your classroom counterparts.


Cons
     Being overwhelmed and having difficulties at grasping the material
Home learning is primarily self-directed. This may not work very well for you if you need more attention from your teachers, particularly for the more complex parts of coursework. Self-directed learning can make you an independent learner, but it's not for everyone. The trade-off is that online degrees deliver the essential knowledge and tools to form a specific skillset for your career development.

     Home Learning Don’t Help In Developing Oral Skills And Social Interactions
Remember, most of the home learning courses don’t facilitate oral communication, unless the program is synchronous learning event, where the students are asked to participate by using some communication techniques. Today, most of the Home learning courses use asynchronous method of learning and don’t facilitate such interactions.

3    Technical Difficulties
Another difficulty that teacher will encounter with this mode of education is the requirement of sound technical skills; this includes good typing skills to excel in Home learning setup. Home learning also includes some hidden cost, like maintenance and purchasing of computer and other equipments to succeed in the learning process.

Conclusion
So, it will not be exaggerated to say that along with several benefits and flexibility, Home learning also has several disadvantages and cons associated. Most of the Home learning courses are either program-dependent or person-dependent. So, to make future Home learning more efficient and widespread, it is important to minimize and avoid all these aforementioned factors.

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