Online Learning: A Detailed Report on its Advantages and Disadvantages

This report provides a comprehensive analysis of online learning, also known as e-learning, and its impact on students. It defines online learning as education delivered through electronic media, highlighting its role as a form of distance learning. The report discusses the merits of online learning, such as its accessibility in terms of time and place, efficiency through various digital tools, and affordability compared to traditional learning methods. Conversely, it addresses the demerits, including technology issues like inconsistent internet connectivity and the challenge of maintaining focus on screens for extended periods. The report concludes that online learning is an effective method, particularly evidenced by its widespread adoption during the pandemic, offering significant benefits to students while acknowledging its limitations.

Online Learning
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Table Of Content
• Introduction
• Definition of online learning
• Merits of Online Learning.
• Demerits of Online Learning.
• Conclusion
• References

Introduction
• Online learning is also known as E-learning. Basically it is an
procurement of knowledge which implement through electronic media
or technology. Main aim of this report is to analyse how
• Online learning affects the lives of student in what ways it give benefit
to the students life'(Asarta, C. J. and Schmidt, J. R., 2020). This report
includes brief discussion about the online learning. Along with this
positive and negative factors which can affect online learning.

Definition of Online Learning
• It refers to the education which take place on Internet. It is also known as E-learning.
Basically it is kind of distance learning.
• It is an effective education method where students take class an learn in a fully
virtual mode. As it is different from the traditional classroom that student can take
class on online mode.
• Online learning is the most popular approaches now days which is followed by most
of institution, colleges, schools. Online learning connects the students of different
backgrounds who improve their diverse perspectives.

Merits of Online Learning
• Accessibility of time and place: It allow students to take classes from anywhere of
their choice. It also enables institutes, colleges, school to reach out to a more vast
network of students, as compared to being limited by geographical boundaries.
• Efficiency: Online learning has wide range tools such as podcasts, pdf, videos which
provides efficiency to the teachers provide good lessons to the students
• Affordability: It refers that online learning decreases the cost of finance. IT is fact
that online learning is cheaper as compared to physical learning.

Demerits of Online Learning
• Technology issues: Internet connectivity is also an another major challenge of online
learning. Internet issue has grown in leap and bound over the last past years in small
towns, internet connection is a big issue because there is inconsistency in connection.
Without stable connection there is lack of continuity in learning.
• Inefficiency to focus on Screen: Inability to focus on screen is also one of the
challenge of online learning refers to the effort with focusing on screen for longer
time period.

Conclusion
• It is concludes from the above report that online
learning is an effective method for certain period of
time. As online learning became popular day by day.
This trend adopt by all institutes, schools, college
during the pandemic time and till now followed by
them. From the above analysis it can be observed that
student can use online learning because that will give
them more benefits.

References
• Asarta, C. J. and Schmidt, J. R., 2020. The effects of online and blended experience on outcomes
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• Lee, J. and Choi, H., 2019. Rethinking the flipped learning pre‐class: Its influence on the success
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