Past Online Class Experience

In this post, you can read about my past online course experience and what I learned from that experience.

As a current NDSU student, I have taken a combination of both in-person and online courses. This semester, I am 3/3 for the ratio of online courses to in-person courses. In the past, I have taken courses that correlate with one another, trying one of them online and one of them in person.

The course I am going to focus on is my accounting course. In my first semester at NDSU, I took an accounting course in person. I struggled with the course and was unable to interact with it or learn the information as much as I would have liked. The next semester, I took the next accounting course, but online. Through this change, I was able to better take and learn the information from the course. I solely believe that it depends on the individual for how they are able to interact with online or in-person courses.

I liked my online course in the sense that I was able to pace myself and choose when I wanted to complete my work throughout the week. I also liked that I did not have to push off the course another semester, as the in-person version would have conflicted with another one of my courses. I was also able to better focus on the course and take my time on my assignments, as I wasn't surrounded by others that made me feel like I needed to rush.

I did not like that I was not closer to my teacher and was unable to talk to her in person about questions in the course. I also missed the student interaction and group work that I would have had had I taken the in-person version of the course.

Overall, it depends on the course I am taking to tell whether or not I would prefer it online or in person. For courses that are more centered on an online curriculum and assignments that are individual, I prefer online. On the other hand, if the course is made up of group work and hands-on interactions, I would prefer in-person to be able to experience those things.

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