Distance Education

List 5 Pros and Cons of distance education.

Pros: Time Management, Advanced Students, Students with disabilities, Location, & Availability.
Cons: Socialization, Peer experiences, Availability, Technology, & Monitoring.

How would you determine the readiness of the student to do distance education?

Distance education would take a specific type of student to be completed. There are great opportunities that lie within distance education for dropouts, advanced students, students with disabilities and even students in extreme rural areas that don’t have access to a school. Distance education would require a student who had a lot of self-guidance, and would be able to complete all required class work, as well as homework by themselves. I believe that in order to participate in distance education, students would have to be assessed by an education professional, and they would have to meet the standards to complete an online education. Portions of this assessment would be time management, studying skills, GLE’s, EALR’s and much more. Distance education is just as difficult as or even more difficult than regular education, and doesn’t allow for students to interact with other peers and gain necessary social skills.

What would you need to do to be able to teach in a virtual school?

Besides being technologically savvy, a teacher would have to be just as disciplined as the students. Time management and other skills would play a definite role in making sure the assignments were completed, tests were graded, student’s questions were being answered and much more. It would d be the same amount of classroom time, but just behind a computer. This type of teaching may work for some teachers and students, but for me, it would be a waste of time.


Overall, distance education is a good idea if students are able and willing to complete certain requirments in order to complete an online education.