My Experience With Online Learning

I have had a couple of online classes before, but none seem as technologically advanced as this one. The previous courses I took were both literature courses and I enjoyed them very much so I am looking forward to this course as well. My initial concern with online learning was that I thought that it may somehow lesson the potential for learning because it lacks the face-to-face element of traditional, class room style learning, but I found that this is far from the truth. Conversely, I have found that online learning is at least as engaging and sometimes even more so then traditional classroom learning. I think this has a lot to do with the fact that students and instructors have the ability to interact with one another in an ongoing basis via posts, discussions, and now blogs, which enables the conversation to extend beyond the physical classroom.

Although I have had experience with online learning, I have never had experience with "blogging," and have not even read a blog before this class (as far as I know anyway). Again, my initial reaction was not without skepticism, and I was not entirely convinced of the value of keeping a blog for a course, but I admit that I kind of enjoy it, so much in fact that it has caused me to write a run on sentence. How embarrassing.