What are the benefits of online learning?
Some of the benefits are obvious: for people who live far away from our campus, online learning opens up educational opportunities never before available. Besides regular fulltime Emily Carr students there are professionals, people with other obligations or restraints who find it too difficult to travel to a face-to-face classroom and find online learning advantageous. Online courses also allow you to work independently and absorb material at your own pace, but still offer a great deal of personal contact with your classmates and professor. Students report an excellent level of interaction with their professor and encounter a diverse group of students.
Enrolling in an online law school allows for far greater flexibility and convenience than in a traditional program at a fixed facility; e-learners do not have to put their lives on hold for several years. The American Bar Association sets restrictions on how much a student can work while in law school. Students are discouraged from working at all during their first year. Online students, however, can keep their jobs and maintain their ability to make a living. They don’t have to take out hundreds of thousands of dollars in student loans to pay tuition and cover living expenses. They don’t have to sell their houses or move their families to be near a university. Tuition at a conventional law school at the out-of-state rate can be upwards of $20,000 per year. That does not cover textbooks, materials, rent, or living expenses. In contrast, the majority of online law schools have set tuition at well under $10,000 per year. “It’s robust,” Dean Barry Currier, of Concord Law School, says of t
The biggest benefit of online learning is that you can work to earn your degree from your own home while raising a family, working full-time or experiencing particular life circumstances that make commuting to campus difficult or impossible. At UofL you are taught by the same world-class faculty as our on-campus students. You read the same books, do many of the same assignments and earn the same degrees. The biggest difference is that you are able to do it in a way best fits your lifestyle.
