Who are e-learning students?

E-learning students are people from all walks of life who want to further their educations but cannot commit to on-campus program for one reason or another.

According to a 2008 survey by Department of Education, the average of e-learning student is over 25 years of age, employed, and has some previous college experience. Besides, results that chose e-learning, female and male students are the same. And e-learning have proven to be highly motivated and disciplined in their studies.

Nowadays, people who taking courses through e-learning are increasing. It because people can complete most of the coursework for online classes when it's convenient for them. Most online courses are asynchronous,which means they need not attend a lecture at particular place and time, this convenience is entirely suited to today's society.

Below is the survey result of Department of Education

References:

Australian Government, Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Ralations, E-learning Indicator, 2008 E-learning Benchmarking Survey, Results by gender of student, Australian Flaxible Learning Framework, [Online] Retrieved 31th January 2009 URL:http://e-learningindicators.flexiblelearning.net.au/2008results_demographics.htm

It's Dot edu, not Dot com

All degree institutions of higher education learning have Web sites, but their URL (it's also call domain names) are not dot coms. As a reminder, URL stands for Uniform Resource Locator and is a Web sites global address. The URL suffix(also called TLD for Top Level Domain) for colleges and universities worldwide is .edu.

You can find the college or university that you interested easily by entering the school's name into your selected search engine. You will see the .edu suffix in your search result. :)

References:
George Lorenzo (2000). Teach yourself today e-College, Sams, Indiana.

Poll Analysis

Today, we will discuss the result of the poll question

"Would you choose E-learning to your further studies?"

According to the result, it shows that 58,82% of respondent would not choose E-learning to their further studies and 41.18% of the respondent would choose E-learning to their further studies.

Most of the respondent would not choose e-learning to their further studies. E-learning need higher motivation so people that low self control would not choose e-learning to their further studies. Besides, most of the people would think that on-campus are more interesting than online study. On-campus can makes many new friends but e-learning just taking online courses from home doesn't commuting, it would be less social life compare with on-campus.

For me, I would choose E-learning to my further studies. It because E-learning can saves more time, i can study and work at the same time and this saves my time and money as well. Moreover, I being able to take classes from home and working on assignments on my own schedule . This is my opinion. How about you?