Online education is accessible from anywhere and at any time, allowing students to continue with their daily lives while pursuing their learning goals. Traditional education has specific physical locations and scheduled timing.
The face-to-face connection that online education lacks and traditional education offers is an advantage for students who need interpersonal communication, direction and guidance.
Online education provides digital syllabuses, instructional resources and online submission capabilities that allow students to regulate the pace of their learning without having to wait for peers to catch up or teachers to deliver lessons, as often occurs in traditional education.
Online classroom interaction between students and instructors can be immediate, at any time of the day or night and on weekends. Although students can visit one another and speak to teachers in their offices, interaction in a physical classroom can take place only during classroom hours.
The basic requirements of online education include technological infrastructure that requires financial resources and technical inputs/know-how. Traditional education requires only a basic physical classroom with learners and teachers.