Category: Online Courses

Introduction

Hook: Everything seems to be migrating online these days. Our learning is also migrating to the internet.

Connecting Statement: Traditional education allows you to choose the curriculum of your dreams, but it will require you to go away from home, live in an unfamiliar location, and compete in a very competitive learning environment. You may enroll in any degree or course offered by traditional four-year institutions through online education.

Thesis Statement: The advantages of online learning might be more than you think.

Body Paragraph 1:

Topic Sentence: For many students, comfort is paramount.

Supporting Sentences:

Argument: Thousands of students prefer online learning to save time and money by not having to go to physical education establishments.

Counter Argument: Physical education programs assist pupils in overcoming obstacles while in class.

Rebuttal: Students don’t have to fight traffic, leave the office early for lectures, or lose essential family time to listen to lectures and complete homework delivered to them electronically. Instead of missing essential classes (due to weather conditions).

C. Concluding Sentence: As an online student, you avoid the many problems that conventional students face every day.

III. Body Paragraph 2:

Topic Sentence: Taking online courses is seen by many employers as a show of initiative.

B. Supporting Sentences:

Argument: Employers value an online degree just as highly as a degree received at a traditional university.

Counter-Argument: However, in the reality, many students continue to choose traditional classrooms over online programs to be more organized.

Rebuttal: They recognize that thanks to today’s technology advancements, an increasing number of employees are obtaining their development and skills over the internet. As employers place a high emphasis on professional growth and continuous education.

C. Concluding Sentence: As a result, companies do not just consider online education being on par with traditional education, and they often consider it to be up to date on the newest latest advancements.

IV. Body Paragraph 3:

Topic Sentence: Learners may study at their own speed, which is one of the many benefits of online education.

B. Supporting Sentences:

1. Argument: This approach doesn’t even need you to attend live sessions; you may view the contents whenever it is convenient for you.

2. Counter Argument: However, it restricts the resources available to students to study for exams and complete assignments (library, individual coaching).

3. Rebuttal: You could study at night if you do have to continue to work as well as look for your house and children throughout the day.

C. Concluding Sentence: Individuals who wish to take their time getting an education could do that without feeling rushed.

Conclusion:

Restated Thesis Statement: The benefits of online learning may outweigh your expectations.

Summary Take Away point:

Because of the major benefits that online education provides over formal teaching, it is growing widely attractive.

Students may learn as they choose, this is much more convenient, online courses typically look better on portfolios, the pace of learning is controlled by the individual, as well as the expense can often be cheaper than traditional learning, to name a few positives.

It’s easy to understand how this type of schooling is becoming more popular for such causes.

An online course refers to the course or medium of content that is provided to anyone irrespective of their age through a digital platform. Nowadays, these online courses have become important for the ones who are seeking job opportunities in accordance to some prescribed professional skills.

Students are required to be familiar and well versed with the usage and applications of technology. The advancements in Information Technology (IT) has actually opened the way for students to shift from their traditional way of learning to a new one i.e., learning via digital platform. Online course actually changes and transforms teaching and learning relationships, methods, opportunities and outcomes.

Main motive for pursuing online course is to improvise opportunities for oneself. A good characteristic of online education is to provide active learning which helps working professionals to be updated with the real world and the technologies that are emerging.

Hooman Estelami (2012) examined the varying experiences in hybrid-online and purely online course formats. The outcome was that the online courses are increasing nowadays at a tremendous rate with the advancement in technology. It even allows disadvantaged students to compete more effectively with the advantageous ones more effectively than in traditional learning.

The most crucial factor is interaction in education. The interaction made online are actually reciprocal of events with at least two actions and two objects which mutually influence one another. Moore (1989) described that there are three main types of interaction; crucial for success in online courses:

1. Learner–content interaction. The provision of materials alone cannot be enough to foster learning, which requires students to actively engage with the content purposefully. Online course participants tend to rank learner–content interactions highly.
2. Learner– Learner Interaction. Generally, students appreciate opportunities to work and share ideas with their peer groups , others feel that these are highly tangential.
3. Learner–Teacher Interaction. Instructors are often known and regarded as experts in the subject they teach to the students. Hence, communication with them can be thought of as a highly perceived value amongst learners.

The results of the study indicate that the preferences, self-reported measures, demographics can actually play a key and important role in determining the predictors for the performance in online courses; and the research on the performance of the students in online courses can be expanded to various other domains and fields. Knowledge can actually aid a student to make corrective measures or seek other modes of learning.

Who wouldn’t want to be able to go to class at any time without having to commute? Online courses have been getting more and more popular due to how convenient they are. Students can choose when and where to complete the course while working towards their degree. As long as students have Internet access, they can access and complete course requirements. Online students must be responsible and self-motivated to benefit from freedoms of online classes.

Online classes have a considerable amount of freedom. There is no classroom or set time for a student to have to show up for class. For example, instead of waking up at 7am to get ready for an 8am class, students can sleep in. In addition, students can choose to do their homework and use the course resources when they like. For instance, they can spend 30 minutes at 3pm and another 45 minutes at 6 pm working on homework instead of having to sit through an hour class at the same time and same place often in the same class seat. However, with the freedoms of online classes, there is the need to be responsible.

Responsibility is important to succeeding in online courses. For example, students need to check their schedule and course announcements often to make sure they don’t miss assignments or important information. Teachers won’t remind students about this in class, so students must remind themselves. This means making the class a high priority and taking it seriously. In addition to responsibility, self-motivation is necessary for being successful in an online course.

Some might think that self-motivation is the same as responsible. However, that is not true, especially for online classes. While responsibility is being aware of what needs to be done, self-motivation is the ability to fully do what needs to be done. Just as teachers won’t remind students about assignments, teachers also won’t have time in class for students to work on assignments.

Therefore, students need to be able to motivate themselves to do the assignments. This is difficult for many reasons. Some examples include all the distractions one might have a home such as family, pets, children, and just wanting to relax by watching TV, Netflix, and so forth. Students will need to be able to focus. For instance, they can set aside a specific amount of time every night at a certain time to work on their homework. That can give them the best chance to achieve the success they want.

Students can take advantage of what online classes offer if they remain responsible and self-motivated. The freedom might make this difficult. However, students can benefit from it in many ways. Being self-motivated and responsible can lead to success since our society has opportunities for people with strong determination and discipline. Online learning is meaningful life learning.

Ever since the widespread of COVID-19, countries all around the world have been suffering, and of course, the Philippines is no exception. This pandemic has not only the medical field, but also other fields like the political, economic, and educational fields. The Department of Education and Commission on Higher Education did not allow face-to-face classes for this school year. With no physical classes available, our country opted for online learning as the new normal. Learning that takes place partially or entirely over the Internet is known as Online Learning. (U.S. Department of Education, 2010). During this time, online classes would take entirely over the internet. Online courses are derived from a push “to provide quality education to all or any students, regardless of location and time” (Chaney, 2010, p.21). Online learning features more flexible access to content and instruction at any time, from anywhere. Frequently, the focus entails (a) increasing the availability of learning experiences for learners who chose not to use the modules, (b) assembling and disseminating instructional content more cost-efficiently, or (c) letting the instructors handle more students while maintaining the learning quality can be compared to face-to-face classes. (Means & Roschelle,2010) Despite astronomical growth within the past decade, distance education schemes see many casualties when large numbers of students register for online courses with no concept of what the experience will demand (Bathe, 2001 Hill & Raven, 2000 Moore, Bartkovich, Fetzner, & Ison, 2002; O’Brien & Renner, 2002, Stover, 2005). In this type of learning system, many students struggle with how to manage their time to do tasks. Time management is an essential term for everyone, particularly for students, where it depicts vital roles in our lives. Each student must recognize that they need to control their time by setting goals and expectations that can contribute to positive outcomes such as good school experiences and maximum achievements being preserved.

Motivation is important in managing time effectively. Maintaining motivation is already hard during physical classes. Imagine maintaining it during online classes. Lower success rates were faced by those students who lacked independence and self-motivation (Savenye, 2005). Learners’ lack of self-regulation could lead to poor quality work or late assignments altogether because not enough time was assigned.(You and Kang, 2014). Since online classes take place at home, learners will get distractions from time to time be it internal or external. It will affect the way they work and will definitely affect the time they use to finish their work.

Different technology applications are used to enhance learning. One class of online learning models uses asynchronous communication tools (e.g., e-mail, online learning platforms, messenger, Google Classrooms) to permit users to contribute at their convenience. Synchronous technologies (e.g., Zoom meetings, Google Meet, Messenger rooms) are accustomed to approximate face-to-face teaching strategies such as delivering lectures and holding meetings with groups of students. Earlier online programs attempted to implement one model or the opposite. More recent applications tend to mix multiple types of synchronous and asynchronous online interactions as well as occasional face-to-face interactions. Learning about complex knowledge requires a body of learners (Riel and Polin 2004; Schwen and Hara 2004; Vrasidas and Glass 2004) and online technologies can be used to spread and support those communities. Another belief is that asynchronous learning is mostly self-reflective and therefore more helpful than synchronous learning. (Harlen and Doubler 2004; Hiltz and Goldman 2005; Jaffee et al. 2006). Despite these modes of teaching offered, the students of Colegio De Santa Ana are having a hard time managing their time during online classes. In the comfort of their own homes, the students are not able to spend their time wisely because the schedule is not closely monitored by a teacher. In school, work is done and passed on the same day but in online classes, much more time is given. This makes it more difficult for students because they won’t worry about the activity until the time of the deadline comes.

In line with the problem, this paper proposes the Eisenhower Decision Matrix as an intervention in improving the time management skills of students during online learning. As quoted by Dr. J. Roscoe Miller, there are two kinds of problems: the urgent and the important. The urgent are not important, therefore the important are never urgent. The 34th President of the United States, Dwight D. Eisenhower was stuck on what and how many tasks he should focus on each day. This finally led him to invent the world-famous Eisenhower principle, which today helps people prioritize by urgency and importance. He said that great time management means not only being efficient but also effective. To do this, and to attenuate the strain of getting too many tight deadlines, this distinction must be understood:

• Important activities are what lead us to achieve our goals, professional or personal.
• Urgent activities require immediate attention. Not dealing with these activities has an immediate consequence.
• Knowing which activities are urgent and important can help overcome the natural tendency to focus on things that are not essential to learning.