You will prepare and submit a term paper on Online Leraning. Your paper should be a minimum of 1000 words in length.

You will prepare and submit a term paper on Online Leraning. Your paper should be a minimum of 1000 words in length. In this essay, I'll discuss why online learning has the advantages that it makes it compete with traditional classrooms.

The first online courses were delivered on command-line systems. Later on, Archie, Veronica and Gopher were used from course providers to give students access to information and MOO's (Multi user dungeon Object Oriented) came to provide real-time text-based communication. During the 90's, newer conferencing systems became available, and after the advent of the web they supported audio and video also, to conclude to web-in-a-box software for student tracking (Mason, 1998).

Most online courses are based on applications known as "course management systems", where topics are outlined and students and teachers have discussions, complete tests, submit papers. and where resources and grades are posted.

These characteristics enable people with tight-schedules, remote locations or simply with preference to study from home, the possibility of learning at their own pace, organizing their time (flexibility), and interacting with a lot of different people. Therefore, their most important advantages include flexibility, interactivity, lower costs, multimedia and hyperlinking.

Another important advantage is that distractions are minimized.