Online Learning and Virtual Reality

  The main difference is that while online courses may have a course Website or some instructional activities online, these supplements but do not replace face-to-face coursework. Students continue to meet in the classroom for the standard number of scheduled hours for that course.       An online or distance education course is conducted entirely and exclusively via the course management system assessable from the Internet. The online format is the primary method to deliver the course materials. Communication and interaction occur online between faculty and students. All assessment of student work is conducted online.       MOOCs classes, although more like a fully online course, offers other resources such as forums where students can communicate and begin discussions about the class. Resulting in a better understanding of the subject at matter. As opposed to regular online courses which don’t offer these implementations

Last fall of 2016, session two, I experienced my first online class in college after taking a hybrid class in biology in my second semester at LaGuardia Community college. Since my experience for both online class and hybrid class are similar, I will cover my online class only because it was my most recent. My online course was a communication class; when I essentially registered for that particular class, I had no idea it was an online class until my first day of class. Our first day of class was the only time we met face-to-face with professor and get to know who our classmates are.         After all, class activities, homework, quizzes, and exams were through blackboard. We didn’t use any type of software for the course, the course itself and professor were straight forward. Because the course was in a short 6 six weeks session, students were responsible to complete multiple assignments during the week including completing two lengthy quizzes after reading two ...