online impression

As a student that has started and stopped, then started school again, I feel that classes online have enabled me to get to know my peers better than face to face. When going to a class in person, there are the impressions of others not wanting to work with one another to excel in the classwork. With classes online, people are willing to help one another because they may be having some of the same problems, or other struggles that another peer can help solve.
One of the advantages of this class is with our blogs, we are able to put faces with other people in our class. With the blogs, we are able to find out more about the other members of our class than we would in a traditional class setting. Another benefit of online class is bringing students from other countries together. Although, it doesn't seem anyone in our class is taking this course in another country at the moment, I have taken online courses were I was the only student from the United States.
" With the technology of social saturation tow of the major factors traditionally impeding relationships -- namely time and space -- are both removed." (Beedles, p.55) No longer are we limited to social interaction in person. With our computers and online abilities, we can communicate with other students that could be thousands of miles away. There are still benefits of the traditional classroom, however the online classroom opens the benefits beyond the walls of a room.