Online or on Paper: Which type of learning is best?

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Online classes have become a common occurrence in today's world of education. Numerous educators have now installed online homework into their classrooms. This "new" idea has given students a great number of benefits. For starters, students can now submit their assignment and allow others to critique their work. This feedback could help students better understand the assignment and improve grades. Furthermore, the online work could be corrected automatically, which would save teachers countless hours of correcting papers. This new found time could be used to create better and more impacting lesson plans. Lastly, students could make simple corrections to the assignments, instead of having to turn in a whole new document.

The main drawback of this idea, however, is the fact that not every student will have access to a computer at home. This could really discriminate against students who do not have the option of turning homework in online.The school could possibly lend out computers to take home, so these students have equal access to the assignments. Until schools can tackle this problem, I don't know if this web-based assignments will be able to work.

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