Online education has emerged in all levels of school environment. K-12, vocational institutions and colleges are incorporating online classes at an increasing rate. With advances in technology, clearly we should use the internet as a supplemental tool but with the level of education necessary for us to compete in the world economy, we must conduct due diligence to determine which classes are to be offered at what level to whom in order for online learning to be credible. Our education system needs a drastic overhaul in order for us to remain competitive in the global market, but that does not necessarily translate into the method of content delivery. We are already facing students coming out of the No Child Left Behind era, who were taught to test having a lower influence on critical thinking. In addition, social media is making face-to-face communication a lost art. Receiving a comprehensive education is salient, and the ethics involved in pursuing a degree can be easily compromised when the wrong individual is offered or chooses enrollment in online classes. Teachers and administrators in the middle and high school setting can now give up on problem students and with a somewhat clear conscience push them toward options like Florida Virtual School. These students need additional care and guidance to have a chance of becoming productive, and removing them from the classroom is not likely to accomplish this. Passing this task along to parents will only add pressure that they are not equipped to handle. I am taking my first online course this semester and have frequently found discussion postings that have been copied and pasted from the internet. Widely used text books are easily found, and the questions and quizzes posted are an ... ... middle of paper ... ...online courses throughout the remainder of my college life. I am intensely structured and have turned in all assignments prior to due date, but I know that retention would be stronger if I had participated in a traditional classroom setting. Works Cited Allen, I. Elaine, et al. "Conflicted: Faculty And Online Education, 2012." Babson Survey Research Group (2012): ERIC. Web. 11 Nov. 2013. Christensen, Clayton M., Michael B. Horn, and Curtis W. Johnson. Disrupting Class : How Disruptive Innovation Will Change The Way The World Learns. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2011. eBook Collection (EBSCOhost). Web. 10 Nov. 2013. Hiltzik, Michael. "Should College Stay Offline?." Los Angeles Times. 28 Jul 2013: B.1. SIRS Issues Researcher. Web. 11 Nov 2013. Rivera, Carla. "Putting Online Classes to Test." Los Angeles Times. 06 Jul 2013: A.1. SIRS Issues Researcher. Web. 10 Nov 2013.
In earlier times, the acquisition and spreading of knowledge was not used to improve society. Instead it was used to have control and to exclude certain groups. As one could imagine, there needed to be a change in the way that the education system was set up. In her essay, “Project Classroom Makeover”, Cathy Davidson discusses how the “one size fits all” model of learning hinders students from learning in a new and modernized way. She suggests the notion that using technology to teach and learn can be effective in many ways. Davidson shows that using technology presents the opportunity for a traditional classroom to become more inclusive and creative. The “democratization of knowledge” is the improvement and modernization of how information is taught and learned. Having a modernized and advanced learning system is a vital point for students because they gain insight and experience with what is considered a society dominated by advanced technology. Technology has become a dominant resource in the 21st century which makes it a relevant and essential factor needed to succeed in the world of education and
Bedford (2009) stated that the rapid increase in students taking online courses in the United States creates a corresponding need for additional qualified online instructors. Full-time faculty are unable to meet this need which has led to the hiring of more adjuncts. Bedford argued that adjuncts cannot be seen as a homogenous group because there are a number of adjunct categories. Bedford focused her research on “a small but growing number of individuals who do not hold full-time jobs but rely on multiple adjunct positions to fulfill their professional needs” (2009, Introduction section, para. 1). She called this group ‘professional’ adjuncts, and she highlighted that not much empirical research has focused on the idea of the professional adjunct as a career choice. Bedford felt that professional adjuncts are an important group for distance learning administration to investigate further, as they offer a potential solution for the challenge of providing quality online instruction.
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The primary audience for this research are policymakers. These individuals are not directly responsible for delivering the online education; however, they decide the class size for the online classes. These individuals range from those in Accreditation bodies to University administrator, as well as department chairs. Each level makes decisions that influence the practical size of online classes.
O'Malley, John, and Harrison McCraw. "Students perceptions of distance learning, online learning and the traditional classroom." Online journal of distance learning administration [Online] 2.4 (1999). Web. 10 Jan. 2014
Online education is a booming trend in the education world. It is something different than the traditional classroom. It is allowing student around the world the opportunity to get an education. Online education allows student to have a more proficient and cheaper way of learning. Having multiple ways to give a student an education allows all learning types to find their own way of learning. Education changes lives but it can be difficult for students to get to a classroom to sit through an hour class 4 times a week, this can be for many different reasons. There are many doubts about online education, but this a new world without borders it is a new opportunity for people from all over the world to get an education.
Some students within society need to have online learning to complete college degrees due to their lifestyles. While it
When students are deciding on where to go to college, they have the option of choosing between online classes and the traditional classroom classes. Today, some students are finding it much easier to maintain a job, family and start a college career, all by taking online classes. Although some students still prefer to stick with the traditional classroom classes, they still have the option to take online classes. Both online and the traditional classes will provide the educational requirements needed to obtain a college degree and opportunities in the work field. Although the online classes offer just as much as the traditional classes, they are completely different when it comes to teaching methods, course material and time.
Online education also creates confusion and frustration between both faculty members and the students. This represents how modernized systems and technology sometimes lacks the real purposes and benefits it should provide, since online education has pros and cons as well. No matter how much people argue about which one is better, students will always choose what suits them best and what is more convenient in terms of their financial abilities if they had the
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Education should be one of the most important things in a person’s life. Most people are trying to achieve an education. It is stressful when you are trying to decide what school you want to go to. While debating on whether to attend college or not, many people wonder which education is better online or traditional education. As the cost of education increases a lot of students are choosing online education because its’ flexibility. If you look at it from both point of views you are accomplishing the same thing from both, which is a degree. Some people look at the cost of the school to see if they will go to school there. When you going by means of the cost of how much it will be for the degree you are trying to achieve you have to look at the salary you will be making with the major you are pursuing. Online and traditional education has a lot of similarities and differences.
Over the years it has been seen that education has taken up several forms. With the advent of technology, education has also been integrated with technology. Previously it was seen that education was achieved through written forms of paper with pen or pencil. The use of pen and pencil can be dated back to the Roman Empire. However, with the developing pace the traditional means of attaining education are changing. The introduction of information technology has brought forth a new way of learning through the internet. E-learning is the new form of education introduced by IT which helps people to attain knowledge through the use of their computers. A portal is introduced by the use of information technology which the students are able to access and to take tests. However, this new technology also brings with it other ethical issues of plagiarism and social contact. Online education is an inadequate alternative for traditional, classroom-based teaching for several reasons: there is no interactive communication between the student and the instructor, potential employers do not value online course work, class offerings are limited, instructor feedback to the student might be delayed for days, and group projects are nonexistent.
Elaine Allen and Jeff Seaman, Changing Course: Ten Years of Tracking Online Education in the United States
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Abstract: Recently, there has been a rush to create web-based instructional courses. The approach that is being taken to create web-based courses is to create websites that will function as the central distributors of information and materials. Based on the format and content of the course, the student is to go through lesson by lesson to complete courses. In this paper, I address some of the problems inherent in this approach, especially with respect to 18-22 year-old undergraduate education.