online classes

Internet-based instruction sessions

Online classes are educational courses conducted over the internet rather than in a physical classroom.

Students access lectures, assignments, and discussions through digital platforms, often with flexibility in when they participate.

She's taking online classes while working full-time.

The format ranges from live video sessions to pre-recorded content completed at one's own pace.

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delivery format

online classesclassroom instruction

Teaching in school setting

classroom learning · lecture halls · boarding school

formality and structure

online classesself-directed learning

Education you control yourself

autodidacticism · informal education · learning by doing · apprenticeship · on-the-job training

technological dependence

online classesone-room schoolhouse

Single-chamber rural school

Socratic dialogue · oral tradition

Family

online, classes, line, class, lines, lined, liner, lining, linear

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