I am planning on finishing my education, after one year of attending and one year off. I am in my car and I hear about the shooting at Virginia Tech. Do I really want to finish my education on campus? There have been numerous shootings at schools all around. The shootings do not happen at a specfic institutions, with certain majors,or a particular religious beliefs. It just happens. Reading the article at msn.com, I came across 11 college shootings, including the one today. Those 11 were just a few, I am sure. I just started to wonder if online class we thought of because they might seem a little safer then attending a campus, in addition to be more convenient!
Are you considering online classes?
By Mazu - Posted on April 16th, 2007
I can already see all those commercials for "learn at home" like PCDI and the University of Phoenix Online and other Online institutions using this as a marketing tool; kind of sad.
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Yes, campuses are dangerous, but I finished my senior year online, and I didn't think it was a quality level of education. To me, the learning value of online courses is dramatically decreased from the quality of classroom/lecture hall courses.
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I do all of my classes with Kaplan online from home and absolutely love it. The courses are appropriately challenging and we routinely cover more material than do the traditional college structures. Granted, not all online classes are of quality; some are truly terrible (University of Phoenix gets a lot of complaints), but there are those out there that are awesome. Actually, I think Kaplan ranked number 1 in online education last year.
I decided to do online simply because it's more convenient to me what with working and helping care for a disabled baby and my own medical issues (not to mention a lot cheaper). I don't think safety was originally in the online class idea, simply convenience, but I would imagine that some people now do take the safety factor into consideration.
"Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored." -Huxley
"It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err." -Gandhi
I took 13 credits on-line at Delta College for the winter '06 semester because it was more convieniant. I live an hour away from the college and the college does not have dorms. Also, with Michigan weather being ever-changing (the winters are sometimes severe), my small car can't get through all the snow, so, I'd have to leave two hours ahead of the class time - just to get there in time. It was great, but I wouldn't take math on-line. I did that and it was a lot harder than the face-to-face class would've been. You basically had to self-teach yourself which I'm not good at. For me, I prefer the face-to-face contact with the instructor so that I could get my questions answered more effectively. On-line classes at Delta are actually more expensive than the face-to-face ones - about 2 times or 3 times more so. Luckily, I had the FAFSA back then that paid for everything. I just had to make sure that I'd be going full-time (12 credits). Go with what's best for you.