Online learning provides increased safety, more flexible access and equity among students who are immunocompromised or live with disabilities, as well as those who commute to campus and/or juggle multiple jobs to pay rising tuition costs. Faculty members who take care of elderly parents say they prefer having less exposure to contagious illnesses likely to be spread when hundreds of students are seated in large lecture halls — and those sitting in the back are watching a monitor anyway. Students who go online for tutoring sessions at late hours enjoy not having to wait for someone to open a locked building.
