I think there are accreditation issues that come into play if you put your courses out there for credit. I have to say, I’ve had a few online courses, and they are not as good as in person courses. I don’t like them. They are cold and impersonal. You don’t meet anyone. You don’t build a network. You don’t have people to study with. You don’t get the teacher’s non-verbal communication, or at least not much of it.
Yes, there are accreditation problems, but that is simply politics nothing more. I had to struggle for a year to get all my credentials recognised, (I transferred twice, had HS credits), at the institution from which I eventually graduated.
Online courses aren’t for everyone, but as a deaf student, most lectures were useless in terms of learning. I couldn’t hear the prof, and having the notes online would have been a godsend back in the day.
Networking is an interesting question. I don’t see why an online class cannot set up a discussion board by which the students can interact.
Networking is a very good point.
I get more out of a class if I read the materials and consume and digest the knowledge at my own pace (which is usually faster than my counter-parts). That is NOT to say that I am faster than others, I just read and comprehend pretty fast.
Listening to long, boring lectures do nothing for me except help me go to sleep! Heck, even in high school I preferred to read ahead in the chapters so that I knew what the teacher was talking about when she/he was talking. Otherwise, I was just LOST!
And, I disagree, I get great feedback from the instructors online and I get lots of network/study time with other classmates over the internet. I am currently enrolled online via Odessa College. There are three of us who are all going for the OSHA degree and we have agreed that we will continue in the same courses to continue to grow our study group.
I think it is “to each his own” when it comes to learning. My wife needs to be physically shown how to do something about three times and then she can do it over and over. If I don’t read the instructions FIRST, it will take me twice as long to figure out something when compared to if I am just shown the steps.