This article portrays the advantages and barriers of Online Education. Increasing access to quality education has been one of the main justifications for the use of distance education. Use of the Internet in education is to provide an efficient way to collaborate with others. Experts and educators all over the world can become collaborators with the teachers and students in a classroom. But even with the advantages that occur under certain conditions, there are still critical barriers to distance education and specifically to online education at a distance. Many barriers to learning and teaching at a distance are caused by lack of access to resources and people, difficulties in assessment. The barriers reported in this article indicate that an additional area of policy interest should involve technical or infrastructure needs in the educational system. Author says that online teaching and learning will fail without strong administrative leadership to support the many changes necessary to fully implement online educational activities and to overcome the barriers expressed by the teachers and by other educators.
Berge, Z.L. (1998). Barriers to online teaching in post-secondary institutions: can policy changes fix it? Retrieved from
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