Many, however, say the correspondence experience is cold and isolating, offering little contact with the instructor and none with other students. Proponents of Net learning say the Internet has allowed them to overcome that isolation and provide an educational experience similar in quality to that of the traditional classroom. For more information about students' reasons for plugging in, visit the Student Lounge in the net. Back to top. If you've managed to find this Web page, you've already demonstrated enough Internet knowledge to take a course online.
Many online courses require students to use little more than a Web browser and email software.
Back to top. Only a few years old, Net learning already encompasses a sprawling range of fields and disciplines. Online courses are being used to serve any and all educational goals, from wine-tasting courses to entire Ph.D programs. Back to top. While some courses have required students simply to browse lecture notes with very little human interaction, the dominant and most successful online method has emphasized communication between students, their peers and the instructor.