OFFLINE LEARNING MATERIAL

The globalization which is wider now gives us more chance to access the information all over the world. This technological development also affects the education. The more popular way to get a source is the online learning material. But, beside the online learning material, the offline learning material now is still the most used by the students as the source in Academic Writing. Of course, in every case, it has advantages and disadvantages. They will be explained here.
From the first paragraph, we can see that the offline material is the opposite of the online material. It means the offline material is the material not connected to the internet browser. One of the advantages we can gain through offline learning material is the offline material usually more valid because the writer, the composer, the publisher, and the year are clear. So it is almost impossible if they give not valid information. Usually the offline material is recommended by the teacher, so that it is almost impossible for us to get the information which is not in line with the teacher’s explanation.
Besides, it also has some disadvantages. It is almost difficult for us as the students to get the information faster because the offline learning material such textbook and CD just can be gotten in a certain time. And it spends more costs than we just browse in the internet. While we are going to have a discussion, from the term offline, of course we need to meet the person that we want to do discussion with. For instance we need to go to the United States to do the discussion with the students there. It needs more costs to do.
We can learn more as what we need and based on our own achievement capacity. We all consider that people are not the same. There are some of them who are satisfied of what they got in the class. Besides, there are also some others who want to know more and more. And if they just use the offline learning material, they have to look for more. In another case, for them who are not understand enough about the material taught in the class, they need to look for more explanation from other sources that can help them to understand. Although there are so many books and other offline learning materials prepared in the library, usually they are not too interesting because we have to look for it one by one and it takes more time.
In conclusion, offline learning material has some advantages to support our study in Academic Writing. It is more valid than the online material. But in using the offline learning material, we need more time to look for it. We also need many costs to get it. But at last, whatever kind of learning material we use, the most important think is the want to gain more information whether it is from the online or offline learning material.