Wild Flower
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Not a generalization. A very small number of kids are able to do as well online. I'm sure there are kids who do have enough discipline but not a lot.That is a generalization.Those kids often go to office hours to speak to the professors. Online learning is only good for a very small percentage of people. Kids don't have enough discipline to always listen to every lecture online or do the home work that is needed to reinforce the concepts.You are still learning from people when online. Online lectures from a qualified professor is done and readily possible for all college courses. Many college courses have dozens to hundreds of students listening to a lecture. These students often NEVER speak face to face with the prof. At any rate with Skype and Facetime, face to face instruction can be had over the internet in real time.Time for this to change.There is a reason why these online university degrees get no respect in the academic world. No one learns or retains a damn thing from computer based instruction. My daughter went the online route to stay home and take care of my granddaughter. She got a degree in criminal justice. When she applied to jobs requiring that degree, she never got a response. The general consensus was that no one in the right mind would hire someone with an online degree because they had no practical experience. On other words, they laugh at those degrees!
Another example is teachers who get their master's in educational leadership online in order to become administrators. If you find yourself working for an asshole or dumb ass, it is always easy to trace to the fact they have a degree they received online. I worked for one vice principal and with another assistant principal who qualified on both counts. They were complete wastes of good oxygen and sterling examples of the Peter Principle.
Good luck with that! Despite all of the support from people like you, it simply is a fact that people learn better from people instead of computers.