1. Lack of face-to-face interaction with peers and faculty
Adult education is more than the acquisition of content as there is a social component of learning, both inside and outside the classroom. Outside the classroom, there exists a sense of community in campus life. In the classroom, conversation promotes rhetoric skills, debate, articulation and justification of one’s points of view and the expansion of listening skills. It permits for instant criticism from peers on one’s views so that explanation and perspective transformation can happen. Non-syntactic communication, such as body language, voice tone, passion for the discipline, admiration and emotion, are lost when face-to-face interactions are not accessible. Instructors also lose the visual signals and direct criticism when their students are puzzled, interested or bored.
2. Technological limitations
Students are not capable of participating in online learning, if access to the Internet is unavailable because of financial limitations, server malfunctions, or computer failure Students may also not have the knowledge and skills of how to navigate e-mail, browsers, download software or trouble shoot hardware. The frequent development of computer technology can create systems obsolete in short periods of time and students will have to think about the financial burden of improvement to remain well-matched with the educational institutions.
3. Limits the capabilities of instructional methods
Online learning environments present restrictions in instructional methodologies. If testing is a part of the course work, there is no way of ensuring that the student taking the examination is the registered member. At the same time as multiple choice questions may give the learner direct signs of achievement or failure. This may delay the learners’ in proceeding to following components of the program. While the ability to surf the Internet does permit the learners to perform research with no trouble, students can just as easily digress, lose focus of the learning objective and spend large amounts of time on interesting information.
4. Eliminates protected time for study
When attending a traditional class, our families, employers and society see this as protected time for study. Online course are not regarded in this way. The flexibility of online learning also lets for delay when the challenges of daily life encroach on study sessions.
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