Title of Assignment
Jonathan Abraham Phiri
R1910D9394322
Module Name
Induction Module
Module code
UU-BA-IND100
Date
17th July, 2022
Discuss your experience of studying on a self-paced online course. You should reflect the
insights you gained and the challenges you faced, and describe your study action plan for the
future online courses
We all need a time a learn new things and move on into a new world of reality after the veil
of lack of knowledge is taken out. In this 21st centuary, different aspects have forced us in
one way or another to venture into online courses. This essay will explain the personal
experience of studying on a self-paced online course, that is the reflection of the insights
gained and the challenges faced.
Education is the process of
Much as education needs social interaction, Moore, 1989 argues that social interactions in
class mainly include student–instructor interaction and student–student interaction. This
interaction is very vital in the education process.
During my first self-paced online course, I have come to realise that, this method of learning
provides students with the ability to do other things in their own scheduled time. Despite
being students, we are in one way or another engaged in other activities that require us to
attend physically at a given time. Self-paced online course has helped with the ability to
attend to other issues without affecting the time of study.
The online courses on the other hand is affected by different challenges that if not careful can
affect the learning process. The technical challenges affects the self-paced online courses.
Learning in a country where there is mostly electricity black out affects the actual individual
planning. I have for some time missed my planned time of study due to loss of electricity
power, this affects other activities planned and thereby oppose the whole purpose of self
paced learning. Not only that, poor planning also leads to procrastination. During my study I
have realized that in self paced online course you may fail to meet the deadline for
submission of assignments.
Argues that in physical settings, live conversation and real time human interactions are the
lifeblood of academic life and adult learning. i
Leaning in real time
Jonathan Finkelstein (2006)
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