A decade ago, schooling still meant that the students sat in a classroom while listening to the teacher¯s lectures. Now, we have another choice, which means the internet courses. We can listen to the lectures on line while sitting on the comfortable chair at home. Somebody think that taking the internet course is really a great way to learn because it is convenience and efficiency, while the others may argue °Does it contain appropriate material for us? Does it achieve the same quality as the regular course?± Whether it is good or not, internet courses is now available for us.

First, let¯s recall how did we study in a classroom when the internet is not available. We sat with our classmates while the teacher giving us the lecture. The teacher discussed the problems with the students, gave the quizzes, also collected assignments .

Of course, study in a regular class is a good method for learning. It can maintain a small size of class and reach the high quality of achievement.

In 1978, Smith and Glass published a meta-analysis combining the results of 77 empirical studies pertaining to the relationship between class size and achievement, and soon followed it with a seco

1. Glass, Gene V., Leonard S. Cahen, Mary L. Smith, and Nikola N. Filby. 1982. School class size: Research and policy. Beverly Hills, CA: Sage

2. Alejandro G. Martinez. "Distance Learning and Teacher Education," Karen's Linguistics Issues, June 2002. Accessed from the web page with URL:on Nov. 20, 2002

As the existence of internet courses contains both good aspects and bad aspects, people will either choose to stick on learning in a traditional classroom or taking internet courses. But as a matter of fact, learning through internet has become a new way of learning.

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