text: Online courses don't allow students to access face to face time with their teachers, unless it is via web cam. This can be stressful in certain situations when needing help and not being able to properly receive it due to a poorer level of communication. It is impossible to replicate face to face human interactions. A web cam simply does not provide enough for a student. There are many instances where the fact that a course is virtual can get in the way of a student getting the proper help they need. Internet connection can run poorly, freezing on the device may occur, and viruses are all instances in where technology can go wrong in this method of learning. The distractions that are available to a student when they are in their own house or in their own room would cause a decline in their academics. Human brains are trained to associate things with other things. When a student is doing their online class on a couch or on their bed, where they usually relax, their brain will cause them to associate what they are doing as unimportant and lose their focus.