subject: Distance Learning: Meeting The Requirements Of A New Era [print this page] Level of present day progress Level of present day progress
Every generation lives in accordance with the rules of its time. Nowadays people need to meet severe requirements for going with the times. A person has to be knowledgeable in various spheres and to be able to juggle different activities. The rapid tempos of present day life presuppose its high demands. Distance learning is one of the latest technological achievements. It allows adjusting ones curriculum and schedule to ones personal needs and enables students to combine their work with studies. Starting their professional careers earlier, young people might develop their practical skills more successfully.
Juggling work and studies, learners might balance these two dimensions. On the one hand, it provides distant students with opportunities to solidify their theoretical knowledge implementing it in practice. On the other hand, practical knowledge and professional experience are helpful for more comprehensive understanding of the course materials. Certainly, all these benefits are possible only on the condition that ones field of study is related to ones job.
The main benefits of distance learning
1.Relative freedom of action. Convenient schedule allows learning on weekends or late at night. At the same time a learner should evaluate ones abilities critically. Appropriate level of time-management skills is required for planning ones curriculum.
2.Advanced knowledge. Notwithstanding the widely spread misconceptions concerning poor knowledge of distant learners, they might be even more knowledgeable that their peers that acquire information on campus. Learning at home they might devote more time to issues that are especially interesting to them.
3.Early start of professional career. Early birds are most likely to get worms. The same goes for distant learners. By the moment when their inexperienced peers start looking for their first jobs, distant students might boast about certain professional achievements.
