In my opinion, online courses offer the opportunity of studying at home with your own timetable. It is a good idea for people how cannot afford to stop working but still want to study, usually people with very busy days and unable to attend classes in regular schools or universities. An online course gives freedom to both the student and the teacher since they can work wherever they want as long as there is an internet connection.
On the other hand, people who choose to do an online course have to be very responsible, they have to do all their assignments at home and before the deadline. Students have to set up a daily schedule and follow it, otherwise all the assignments will pile up and then there will be no time to do them all.
Personally, this course will be helpful in certain skills such as acquiring grammar or vocabulary but will fail in others like speaking. In these kind of online courses it is very difficult to plan speaking activities (even though nowadays it is becoming easier with Skype and other programs that allow people to talk online and record it). It is also difficult to have an immediate feedback from the teacher. To sum up, online courses are a good option if you don’t have time to go to a regular school, but you have to think twice and be sure that you’ll be diligent with all your tasks.
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