Advantages and Disadvantages of E-Learning

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INTRODUCTION
E-Learning, or electronic learning, is the delivery of learning and training through digital
resources. . This makes it easy for users to learn anytime, anywhere, with few, if any,
restrictions. Basically, eLearning is training, learning, or education delivered online through a
computer or any other digital device. This topic is important because at times like this only
because of this method people were able to resume their studies and was able to save their year.
Otherwise it would have been a lot of difficult for them to complete their studies at this time
(Wibrowski, Matthews and Kitsantas, 2017). This essay will discuss the advantages as well as
the disadvantages of e-learning.
MAIN BODY
Discuss three advantages and three disadvantages of e-learning
Advantages
Efficiency-
The time consumed on the method of E-learning is very less and many of the people are
able to learn their course with the help of videos online. It can also be shared with others by
sharing the link of video or session. Apart from this they also have the option to record this
session so that they can watch it later or share it with someone else. All of it can be done with
one click.
Affordability-
This is one of the reasons people prefers this method as they can get the education at very
affordable rates. This is because the cost imposed in infrastructure and transportation is saved.
Also the cost saved on notebooks is saved because anything or information can be gathered
online at no limit (Malik and Ahmad, 2020).
Less Absenteeism-
This method has even reduced the chances of bunking and rate of absent of students as
they can access their class anytime in their comfort zone and no class is missed out because of
the reasons such as missing of bus or train (Feudel and Dietz, 2019). For instance- students will