On
Line College
Toni Lynn Ferro-Cloutier is our host for this particular topic.
There
are good and bad people. There are good
and bad teachers. There are good and bad
schools.
If
it weren’t for the “fly by night” schools, targeting a portion of the populace
who wanted to better themselves, legitimate colleges would never have begun to “think
outside of the box”. The paradigm of
learning on line or in the evening was foreign to conventional colleges.
Our
higher learning systems had been stymied and stuck in “caste” thinking. If you want to improve your life, go to
college. However, we make no concessions
for your work. Professors would lower your grade if you were
absent or late for class. Trying to “work your way” through college became
impossible.
On
line learning can be difficult. It is a
visual learning medium. People learn in
many different fashions and the on line visual medium isn’t the best for
everyone.
My
own time going to college? I attempted
part time evenings, after work at Northwestern Michigan College. I was a delivery driver for UPS, my grades
were reduced for finishing my job. I
argued with the college, that my job paid for the class, but they didn’t see
things that way.
Years
later, I attended Davenport University.
How times have changed! Part of
our classes were exclusively on line, part in class with both solo work and
collaboration.
Most
learning institutions have acknowledged that differing people learn in
differing fashions. Their best recourse
to garner new students and improve their ranking is to make certain all
students learn to the best of their abilities.
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