Online Education: The Case of Mexico
Online education has become particularly important in the last ten years, mainly due to three fundamental aspects. The first relates to technological progress that has been running since mid-century, the use of computers and the Internet, have given way to distance learning. The second aspect concerns the need for companies and institutions require continuous staff training, this to increase their competitiveness in the market. Hence, the third point refers to the time, time has a cost, and high opportunity cost for each worker, so they need flexibility in time and the whole educational process.
Advantages of Online Education.
The online education advocates argue that because it is possible to continue academic training anywhere, anytime with a quality service. Besides reducing the costs of training a certain number of workers for a company.
Disadvantages of Online Education
The disadvantage of this type of education mainly refers to accessibility by users with the necessary tools, especially for undeveloped countries, where only a small percentage of the population has access to a computer and Internet . A second issue concerns the disappearance of the traditional teacher by the virtual teacher.
