DISTANCE LEARNING

Study Skills for Distance Learning

Study Skills for Distance Learning

Introduction

Over the decade, education has become so convenient to get from any part of the world. The trend of information and knowledge equally contributes in the success of the individual. The appeal of degree is persuasive in nature and beneficial for the entire individual who seeks for education without any confusion. Distance learning also plays one of the important roles in the process of accomplishing wisdom on distance.

Discussion Analysis

Distance learning is an opening of new education method that fulfills the student's requirement and engages their time. The new covered pace of education mean has facilitated the management of information and matter of the topic which is reconciled with the information technology that offer more inspiring and appealing than customary ones. Distance education has been greatly used by both students and teachers, and the significance of learning is joining the world together on a single platform of technology.

Literature Review

Distance education is also well known by Virtual education. The virtual training is based on corporate training in which trainee and trainer are sitting behind the screen. There are great numbers of students who takes the advantage of this modified and easy to gain education. In order to get the admission in these trainings, you need to clear an aptitude test vary to the different universities. There is no appropriate facility to educate and train the students for test. (Kayani, 2011, pg.40)

Distance or virtual universities are classified by its methodology to comprise any technological modification that smoothes the progress of sharing the information on vast distances. For instance, television, radio, interactive media, all are straight away incorporated in the queue of function in distance learning. Since before, courses of virtual universities used to consist on printed material which could be accompanied by videocassettes, audiocassettes, television, multimedia software and radio. But after the swift deployment of internet, all courses are easily accessible on online videos and websites at very cheap prices. (Salmon2003, pg.24)

According to Ally the query of either distance learning is as successful as the education gives within a class room to accomplish learning outcomes of the provided subject research and discussion for a long time (2008). It is been noted by Merisotis (1999, pg 17) that the studies should be classified into three categories; evaluating the level of student satisfaction with online teaching, comparing students' attitudes towards learning through these means and contrasting results achieved by students. For instance, a research done by Shutte(1996, pg 23) portrays that students in a course on numerical office are erratically allocated to a virtual classroom. It is been observed that the results of the distance classes tests are better than the traditional approach. It concludes that the dissimilarity in performance can be praised to an enhanced capability of the student's collaboration with each other while working online. Certainly, students with better performance in both phases also revealed amplified interface with peers. According to Shutte, he said that this association feature is a major variable that should be cautiously ...