Despite Proximity

• Despite proximity and geographic location, if a student has an Internet connection, then acquiring an education is both possible and practical. Many student perceptions of online learning involve a sometimes joyous thankfulness toward the freedom from regional constraint. For example, M.I.T., a world-renowned university recognized for outstanding achievements in all areas of academia, currently offers courses previously recorded and completely online.
  
  

Efficiency of Message Boards

• Many conversations within physical locations, when verbal exchanges are rapid, are lost to oblivion the moment a word is spoken. In contrast, online message boards facilitate both ongoing and robust conversations archived for later access. The efficiency inherent to online message boards involve how novel ideas and discussions are captured when posted and how a constructed body of knowledge can absorb new information as proceeding insight occurs.
  
  

Conveniences of Email Services

• Email services allows for both students and teachers to communicate with each other in written form. The significance involves how directions pertaining to assignments or an entire syllabus can be meticulously organized specific to a student's learning strategy. Moreover, it's incredibly convenient to have fellow students email notes or provide private assistance regarding difficult tasks.
  
  

Group Tasks

• Group tasks involve course work being assigned to many students divided into corresponding groups. The purpose of group tasks entails introducing students to goal-setting mind-sets and employing achievement strategies within an organizational culture. At the same time, having them acknowledge their group's micro-culture is constructed by the personality traits themselves. Behaviors symmetrical to teamwork building and democratic discussions innovating solutions to teacher-assigned problems is encouraged. Overall, student perceptions of group-assigned tasks is viewed positively but marked with occasional frustrations when an unenthusiastic student inappropriately exports their responsibilities to other students.
  
  

Writing Assignments

• Student perceptions of writing assignments for online learning is often experienced as viciously overwhelming at first because the majority of online communication is already writing-based and becomes exhausting. But given enough time to adjust, writing assignments become easier to manage as the online newbie becomes accustomed to work flow. It's important to note, many writing assignments are required to be completed in essay form from 600 to 2,000 words per assignment.