While it is argued that spending considerable time on the internet, even when deliberately using it as a learning system, may turn people antisocial and hermitlike, the counterargument posits that interacting with others online actually increases people’s capacity for social
Apart from being able to absorb and access information at one’s own pace, the internet widens the scope of the form, not just the content, of the education involved, and as such it becomes a learning system of a previously
One of the minuses of the traditional academic (and others) learning system is the passivity of the students—educators educate actively, while learners learn passively, solely by receiving and processing information. Interactivity is foreign to, dare I say, most learners in
Learners can enhance any learning system by complementing it with another: the internet. The internet’s contents are so varied and wide, that the understanding of any concept learned can be expanded and enhanced by appealing to online sources. This learning
Free: Most of the information online is free. Sometimes payment is required (for some journals, magazines, etc.). Regardless, the internet makes for a relatively free learning system. Available 24/7: There is no opening or closing time. Use the web according
Let’s say you were traveling to France on vacation, or you want to learn French well enough to read it because you like to read literature in its original language, or watch French films in French, or impress a French
