Online education offers many unique benefits over traditional education, but many students forget to take full advantage of these benefits. This is often simply because students are used to traditional learning environments and therefore treat online education as an online form of traditional learning. With online education, however, there are a variety of ways to enrich your education and make learning more tangible. Here is a look at how middle and high school students can get the most out of their online coursework.
Use technology to your advantage.
Online education allows you to incorporate a wider variety of technologies in your learning. Integrated video makes abstract concepts tangible. Online school management software always you to view grades and teacher feedback at the click of a button. Screen sharing allows your teachers to clarify concepts with students. These are just a few of the ways that technology makes online learning more powerful than any other form of learning.
Interact with your teachers.
Online education makes one-on-one interaction with teachers more accessible than ever. Here at Mountain Heights Academy, for example, students can contact their teachers through live video chat, online messaging, and phone. Students can also work with their teachers to customize curriculum to meet individual needs.
Engage in extracurricular activities.
A comprehensive online education program will enable students to interact and socialize in person as well. At Mountain Heights Academy, for example, we host field trips, school dances, and monthly service learning activities. Students can also take part in student government, mentor other students, participate in clubs, and more.
Customize your schedule.
Online coursework gives you the incredible opportunity to create your own school schedule. If doing coursework from 7 am to 3 pm is not ideal for you, you have the freedom to change your schedule to one that does. If you juggle several extracurricular commitments, you can always complete your work ahead of time. Our blog post about creating your ideal school schedule has some great tips on creating a schedule that works for you.
Customize your study space.
Similarly, online coursework gives you the freedom to create the perfect space for studying and completing schoolwork. Rather than working in a classroom around dozens of other students, you can work from the comfort of your own home, in a space that is most conducive to learning for you. We talked about some great tips for creating a study space in this blog post.