Posted by alexandra_k on January 10, 2005, at 3:16:29
In reply to Re: e-learning, posted by lorilu on January 9, 2005, at 23:41:58
Hey, cool!
>but we motivated each other through e-mails, phone, and at work to keep going.
Yeah, drop outs can be a problem. I am not sure whether drop out rates are higher than class based ones or not... I personally think it should be the teacher / tutors responsibility to keep people going by emails and maybe a call or two. That is something that some of the lecturers here are a bit slack on. Doesn't take long to send someone who hasn't done their contributions for a week a friendly reminder.. Great that you could do this for each other.
>You should know that online classes are usually harder because they want you to make up for not going to class.
Yeah. I think that could be minimised a lot though. An idea I have is actually video-recording lectures PROPERLY (with good sound and picture quality and smooth transitions to film etc). That way you could watch a lecture of the CD rather than going to class. In fact they could really record them PROPERLY and edit them to achieve this. That should improve the quality of lectures because they would be at their most coherent and dynamic. Could show it year after year and edit any changes to the material. Easy to watch it at the library if you miss a class or want to see it again. Maybe have 10 minutes of questions at the end...
>But I would rather sit at home in my pajamas at midnight writing a paper rather than being in a classroom setting9too anxiety provoking).
Yeah, I am a 6pm-3am kinda worker. Great for people who have trouble going to class.
> They even have a doctorate program that is online! I was contemplating until recently whether or not I wanted to do that, but with I hear it takes years versus 10 months the masters takes....and the Topamax I take doesn't make me as sharp as I need to be.Our Masters enrollment is typically a year (12 months) - I guess it is similar in the US. Doctorates typically take 5 years in the States (though lots of people take longer). So it is years, yeah. Don't sell yourself short though. I reckon you could do it if ya wanted to. You have gotten thus far - right?
Hey, good luck to you.
Thanks for sharing :-)
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