Online Education Challenges and Strategies: A Comprehensive Report

This report delves into the multifaceted challenges inherent in online education. It identifies key issues such as campus distractions, the heavy reliance on technology and its impact on students, diminished social interactions, the necessity for self-discipline, and the conflicts that can arise with different learning styles. The analysis highlights how these factors can hinder student success and proposes potential strategies for both educators and institutions to support students more effectively in the online learning environment. The report emphasizes the evolving nature of online education and the need for adaptable solutions to ensure optimal learning outcomes. The provided solution is a case study on the challenges associated with online education.

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Table of Contents
Introduction:....................................................................................................................................2
Discussion:.......................................................................................................................................2
Challenges of Online Education:.................................................................................................2
Campus Distractions................................................................................................................2
Technological Reliance...........................................................................................................2
Diminished Social Aspects......................................................................................................2
Self-Discipline Essential..........................................................................................................3
Conflicts in Learning Style......................................................................................................3
Conclusion:......................................................................................................................................3
References:......................................................................................................................................4

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Introduction:
Online education defines a flexible instructional delivery system which includes several
kinds of knowledge that takes place through the Internet. Even though huge number of benefit of
online education, there are so many challenges of online education, that will faced by the
potential students.
Discussion:
Challenges of Online Education:
Campus Distractions
When a student gets an education online, his or her homework area is his or her campus.
Whether student at restaurant hooked up to the open Wi-Fi (Marshall 2013), or in a spare
bedroom at home, this zone is now his or her campus. Here distraction is a big challenge to that
online education (Kennedy and Odell 2014).
Technological Reliance
Another challenge of online education is the grand reliance on electricity and technology.
In traditional educational institutions, the school or college delivers any industrial supplies
(Avella et al. 2016) and the fundamentals of essential attendance are met easily by just being at
college or school (Kennedy and Odell 2014).
Diminished Social Aspects

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Social aspects with the online direction are another challenges of Online education.
Within the plans of maximum degree course, there are many benefits given in social
communication with peers (Kennedy and Odell 2014). It is done in the classroom activity or
“social lounges” set outside of the digital classroom. All of these are good but still not similar to
in-person relations or physical (Avella et al. 2016).
Self-Discipline Essential
With most online degree courses, the controlling school will offer a list of requirements
for involvement in the course (Avella et al. 2016), such as requirements in computer devices,
general internet savvy and reliable internet connection, motivation and self-discipline
(Vanevenhoven 2013).
Conflicts in Learning Style
Some students have a challenging time applying their own education style to the
environments of the online classroom (Vanevenhoven 2013). Most students have spent their
learning time in a physical classroom. As an outcome, skill sets and education method tend to
progress as an accompaniment to this physical educational environment (Marshall 2013).
Conclusion:
Perhaps students weren’t expecting an online education to be challenging. Sometimes
students lacked the own-discipline, which is required to achieve an online educational
environment. It concluded that online education is more challenging for tutors as well as
students. But there are various strategies that tutors can use to support students to succeed in

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online education, as well as methods that schools or colleges can employ to help instructor more
efficiently.

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References:
Avella, J.T., Kebritchi, M., Nunn, S.G. and Kanai, T., 2016. Learning analytics methods,
benefits, and challenges in higher education: A systematic literature review. Online
Learning, 20(2), pp.13-29.
Kennedy, T.J. and Odell, M.R.L., 2014. Engaging students in STEM education. Science
Education International, 25(3), pp.246-258.
Marshall, S.J., 2013. Evaluating the strategic and leadership challenges of MOOCs. MERLOT
Journal of Online Learning and Teaching, 9(2), pp.216-227.
Vanevenhoven, J., 2013. Advances and challenges in entrepreneurship education. Journal of
small business management, 51(3), pp.466-470.