There are many advantages to online education, but like everything it has its disadvantages also. Before enrolling in an online course, make sure that it is right for you and your lifestyle.

• Self discipline is required – Students are responsible for sticking to schedules of their own and work with time constraints instead of deadlines given by professors. Procrastination isn’t a word or an action that should exist in an online student’s life because it will only make them fall behind.

• Good time management is necessary – Taking a course on campus requires that you attend class at a prearranged time. You are expected to be in class, on time and you are obligates to keep up with your professor’s assignments and schedules. Online learning means that you are responsible for your own time. There is no instructor looking over your shoulder and you are in charge of keeping tabs on your progress. Working at your own pace can very much lead you into completing later than you probably can, and you can start dragging behind.

• Lack of interaction with the teacher – Human interaction in general, with these online courses is pretty scarce. Unless you make time to meet with teachers on campus somewhere, you will never see them face-to-face. There are those who like not having to impress a teacher or prefer to be by themselves. The majority, however, learns from being right in front of another person.

• Lack of interaction with peers – Students learn from other students, and being at home by ones’ self can become lonely. It’s impossible to create an atmosphere a welcoming as a class full of students, online. It is also impossible to listen to discussions and ask questions of other students. Depending on the subject that you are teaching, you may not need to interact with other students, but you can learn from others just by being around them.

• Networking resources are lessened – Attending college at a campus can be a great networking approach. You come in contact with so many people and these people can give you the connections needed that you can use later in life. Online programs do not give you the in-person contact you need to associate and impress people with.

• Learning at home isn’t as easy as it is in the classroom – Learning in a classroom gives you the tools to understand and interpret information better. An instructor standing in front of you will present hand motions, different verbal tone, and other body language, that cannot be presented online. Not having the body language put into words on your computer screen leaves you challenged to figure out what everything means. You sit at home in front of your computer away from the interaction and observation of a teacher and are on your own to learn the materials.

• Degree validation – An online education from an accredited degree can be very beneficial to a student’s future employment options. As there are accredited institutions, there are non-accredited ones, and there are many. These non-accredited schools hold a bad reputation because they can’t quite prove that a student earned a degree at a high level of standards.

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