Student Perceptions and Satisfaction with Online and Distance Learning

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Online learning is more and more popular in colleges in recent years, but it still remains at a budding stage of its development. It needs more adjustment to meet the students requirements. So firstly, we should get more feedback or insight on how the students perceive and suggestions to online courses. By analyzing the problems with online learning, and basing on the literature review, this article gives the finding point and conclusion. And that is supposed to help both the instructors and the administrators decide if the school should continue their online learning programs.

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