Online Teaching
Online learning is becoming more and more prevalent in our world today. This, in turn, is making online learning more and more important in our educational systems. A 2014 study reported: “The proportion of chief academic leaders reporting online learning is critical to their long-term strategy reached a new high of 70.8 percent. At the same time, only 28 percent of academic leaders say that their faculty accepts the ‘value and legitimacy of online education.” (1) According to a 2009 meta study from the Department of Education: “Students who took all or part of their class online performed better, on average, than those taking the same course through traditional face-to-face instruction.” (1) After taking an online course last semester, I have come to realize that online learning is very beneficial and convenient. Although I value face-to-face instruction and think it’s important to be in a classroom, I think it would be very valuable for learners to have some portions of their cl