Writing III: IELTS Task 2: Advantages/Disadvantages: Online Learning in pandemic

Writing Practice (IELTS Task 2)
Topic: Advantages/Disadvantages

Online Learning is a Solution during the pandemic COVID-19. What are the advantages and disadvantages of online learning?

The world is not the same anymore since the pandemic of the COVID-19 hit a small city in China. The virus is spreading in outstanding numbers of victims. Many human activities have been banning since the outbreak, and one of them is school learning. The learning process has changed into online learning lately, and this has some impacts on our society. These are the following advantages and disadvantages of online learning.

Firstly, The are many advantages of online learning. The first is the transportation cost. Students or teachers spend some money on transportation almost every day to go to school. And with online learning, they could start saving their funds. The second is we could effectively save our time and energy. In online learning, people need more time to prepare and need much energy to do their activities, such as taking a shower, having breakfast, or even put on their make-up. So with this kind of learning method, people could save their money and spend less time preparing to start the lesson, which makes this the benefit of online learning.

Secondly, every kind of learning method has advantages and so do disadvantages, and in online learning, there is some problem that happens for both teacher and student in delivering and understanding the lesson. One of them is internet access. In this learning, it is an obligation to have internet access to join the class but not everybody has it or a good one. In addition, another problem is the material understanding which seems hard for some students to understand.

To sum up. Online learning is the perfect alternative method of learning to implant in this pandemic situation. Moreover, it’s making both teacher and student saves more time and money in this process. Conversely, it also makes students difficult to understand the material, and they often have network jams.

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Andi Kaswan