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Online education had already existed since 1990, but with the COVID-19 pandemic, it saw an unprecedented growth. Practically every student in the world, in kindergarten, high school, and college, began taking virtual classes as they found themselves unable to continue with the education in person.
Although some people don’t have good memories of these classes, it must be understood that this negative image has more to do with the social context in which we lived, rather than with the classes themselves. Also, we shouldn’t forget that in these cases people were forced to study online, and they didn’t do it by choice.
That is why we prepared this article to talk about the benefits of learning online. We hope these help you decide and see if online education is the right fit for you or not.
You save the commute time
Let’s address the elephant in the room immediately: you won’t waste so much time commuting. This applies more than anything to university students or training courses.
There are times when the commute to the university seems endless, and in some cases, it can be up to 6 hours a week spent travelling on public transport (or even more depending on where you live). If you study online, you can save all this time to do what you want, or to prepare more before classes.
There is a greater offer of what you can study
Of course, this doesn’t happen so often if you are looking for a more practical career or courses such as medicine, or some sport, but it does apply for an infinite number of courses.
When you start searching the internet for courses that you can take, you will feel like a new world is opening up. Anything that comes to your mind, most likely there is an online course for that: cooking, languages, sewing, reading or literature courses are the most popular. In recent years there has been an increase in the offer of programming and data science courses, which are the careers of the present and the future.
You can take a course anywhere in the world
It doesn’t matter if you decided to take a vacation in the middle of the course, or if you want to do one at a university that is 11,000 kilometres away from your home, everything is possible with online education.
The great benefit of this is that if you have a favourite author, scientist or teacher but they are from another country, it is most likely that you can participate in a course that they teach online. It is a way to open the doors and become international without the need to leave your home.
In conclusion
These are just a few of the benefits of learning online, but honestly, there are hundreds. You save time, you open the doors to more possibilities, and it can even be recorded so you can do it anytime you have availability. We know that learning in person has a great social factor, but if you have other sociability spaces then learning online is a great option.