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Face-to-Face learning is better than online learning because of the interactions and examples
of face to face learning will benefit the learner the most. One of the most beneficial means
of physically being in a classroom is the response time that a person receives from an actual
person, such as a professor, versus an online class instructor. During face to face learning, a
person’s questions will get an immediate answer whereas online learning means waiting for
a response. Studies show that immediate and efficient feedback response time is crucial to
effective learning. In a classroom environment, you may also have the advantage of working
in small groups where you can collaborate on difficult topics and receive immediate
feedback from you peer groups as well.
Sometimes, discussing issues or problems with your instructor in person is a lot easier than
typing it out or trying to explain it in face-time online.
Efficient and effective constructive feedback is imperative to proper learning environments,
such as what a person would receive in an actual classroom. Attending classes in person also
creates a disciplined, structured student.
In today’s society, it is crucial that students become more structured by attending scheduled
classes. By abiding by a class schedule, this trains the student for “real world” situations,
such as being on-time for a job interview or important business meetings. The online
environment is usually more flexible as far as time constraints. A person does not have
attend class at a specific time and can do household chores, take care of a baby, etc. Many
people may see this as an advantage. (Lim, Doo Hun, Michael L. Morris). However, this is
actually a disadvantage because it creates a carefree, lazy, and distractive environment. This
type of climate cannot possibly properly prepare a person for a job, profession, or career.
The online classroom is at an extreme disadvantage when trying to properly prepare a
student for a structured, business-type atmosphere.
One of the best ways to make new friends and meet new people by socially interacting with
them is in the classroom. Meeting new people is a great way to sharpen your social skills and
where else better can a person do that but in the classroom. Socializing with others is a
perfect way to make future job connections, acquire new friends, maybe meet your
soulmate. Online learning depletes a person of these socializing opportunities. It even
impairs them further. Socializing face-to-face is becoming a trait that is harder to find in
employers today. With increased amounts of text messages, social media sites, and other
less invasive ways of interacting with other people, employers are struggling to find
employees that know how to interact face-to-face effectively. They are a dying breed as we
speak. Collaborating with others offers several more benefits for a student to be successful
in the real world instead of spending time behind a monitor at home.
A great way to learn how to interact with a superior is by being a student in an actual
classroom environment. By interacting with your professor, this prepares a student how to
effectively talk, respond, and “work for” a superior. Personalities sometimes do not mesh,
they may even clash, but by learning how to deal with other personalities, this develops a
more well-rounded individual socially speaking.
Trial and error in how you respond and/or get responses gets students ready for real world
problems, such as how to properly talk to your boss, how to handle difficult situations with
co-workers, maybe even how to settle differences with your spouse. (Smith, Nigel V). By
learning how to answer to a superior, even though it may be a professor or professor’s
assistant, interacting with different types of people as your superior trains a student to
become a more successful individual later in life. The classroom also offers several
opportunities for a student to learn kinesthetically, whereas the online classroom fails the
student in this area.
Online learning obviously offers opportunities for visual learning, but it does not offer much
else. The classroom offers so much more, such as hands-on trainings, visual and hearing
enhanced learning, and other kinesthetic, or physical means, of acquiring information. By
incorporating different learning styles, the success rate of learning highly increases. This
creates a more successful learning environment for everyone. The online learning
experience is very limited in capturing different learning styles and ultimately fails the
student. The online classroom actually offers more opportunities to become distracted and
stray away from better learning versus the physical classroom. Since the traditional way of
learning has always been in a classroom, many people think that students become more
distracted in this type of environment. (Bowen, William G., et al).
However, the opposite is true. By doing online learning from home, office, or in a public
venue, students are increasingly more distracted by other people, family members, and cell
phones.
Many classrooms limit students to being on their phones or laptops, therefore, decreasing
the amount of distractions. Online learning actually increases the amount of distractions
because most people access their online classrooms from home, their office or place of
work, or in a public place such as a coffee shop. People with conditions such as ADHD or
other learning disabilities are at even more of a disadvantage for a successful online learning
experience.
Finally, not everyone is equipped with fast-connecting internet, wifi, or has data plans that
support the online learning environment. Many people live in rural areas where high-speed
internet service or wifi is not available. Data plans and internet plans can be expensive, so
people that are on a strict budget tend to stray away from costly internet and phone data
plans. Sometimes internet connections can be interrupted by bad weather and can cause
problems with your online learning experience. You may even lose your work if there is a
power outage or your internet connection is interrupted. If you have a deadline, this could
be a very bad situation.
Face-to-face learning in an actual classroom is proven to be the better alternative when it

comes to being a student. Despite our ever increasing use of technology, online learning fails
to prepare a well-rounded student that is prepared for the real world. By increasing social
interactions, becoming more structured in your schedule, and learning how to interact with
authority figures, students are far more successful in their careers by accessing the
traditional classroom option. However, as more and more online learning opportunities
increase, face-to-face learning may fade away forever.

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