Online Classroom Diversity

Being a student teacher in an online classroom can be difficult

Being a student teacher in an online classroom can be difficult because some of the students never follow the instructions given to them, such as if they are given a weekly task to complete and don’t email the instructor when they have a problem. Again, when others are given work to complete, they merely opt to complete a little amount, which in no way inspires. This type of difficulty forces an online classroom instructor to follow the students’ lead.

Advantages and difficulties of studying in an online classroom

There are certain advantages and difficulties that teachers and students encounter when using an online classroom. Some of the benefits of studying online are that it flexibility in career advancement thus one can work and at the same time and do some coursework more easily. Research has proven that most of the online students have benefited from improvement in job ranking and a salary increase. Secondly, online classrooms give the students the best studying environments whether studying in the bedroom, at café or across the street. Studying online will also lower the fees; no cost incurred for housing, food, and transportation.

Challenges associated with online classrooms

The online classroom is associated with some challenges like technical issues, like every online student requires strong internet connections plus a computer and once the internet fails, it becomes hard for students to follow the ongoing online course thus bring a lot of difficulties in course progression. This problem can only be solved once the students understand the technology support they need for the success of the course completion. Again you find students that are computer illiterate; this makes it difficult for the students to find their files. (Baer & Schmidt, 2014). This difficulty can be overcome by having the literate student in a computer, and this will enable them to follow online courses easily and be able to manage their assignments in an organized way with no difficulties.

Reference

Baker, D., & Schmidt, A. (2014, October). Adapting Teaching/Learning Strategies for the Multigenerational Online Classroom. In E-Learn: World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education (pp. 130-138). Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE).