02-22-2011, 05:36 PM
Quote:Candace Thille, the director of Carnegie Mellon’s program, put it this way: “There is something motivating about the student’s relationship with the instructor — and with the student’s relationship with other students in the class — that would be absent if each took the course in a software-only environment.”
Those relationships — with humans in the flesh — help students to persevere. Online courses are notorious for high dropout rates.
And traditional universities aren't high-dropout places? PFFT!
Motivating? You mean the harassment and brainwashing of your typical left-wing cracker who will "weed out" students according to political biases? Or (as in 99.999 of undergraduate courses) leave teaching and mentoring to teaching assistants? It's that the way to "motivate" them? When I dropped out of a course, the instructor was THE problem.
Quote:One aggregator site, Academic Earth,
That's THE way to go...
A.A Mole University
B.A London Institute of Applied Research
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M.A International Institute for Advanced Studies
Ph.D London Institute of Applied Research
Ph.D Millard Fillmore
B.A London Institute of Applied Research
B.Sc Millard Fillmore
M.A International Institute for Advanced Studies
Ph.D London Institute of Applied Research
Ph.D Millard Fillmore