Why GO To College Anyway?

Katharine Hansen, Ph.D., creative director and associate publisher of Quintessential Careers provides 5 reasons:
1. It will likely make you more prosperous.
2. It will give you a better quality of life.
3. It will give you the power to change the world.
4. It will be something you can pass on to your children.
5. It makes you a major contributor to the greatest nation on earth.

Is Distance Learning for Everyone?

A review of the negative aspects related to online courses.
A number of factors could negatively affect a student's success with distance learning courses. (The circumstances are changing as institutions are becoming more aware and moving toward accommodating distance-learning students)

No Instructor Face Time - if your learning style is one where you like personalized attention from your teachers, then online education will probably not work for you.

How Far Is Distance Learning?

Online learning has developed with exceptional success. Distance learning courses are those in which the students are geographically separated from the instructor. Distance education courses use a diversity of teaching methods, strategies, and technologies. Some examples are Interactive Videoconferencing (ITV) courses, online courses (using the Internet), Telecourses (videotaped lessons) and ‘Hybrid’ or

Online versus Traditional Learning

Recently the US Department of Education conducted a survey to measure up online learning versus traditional learning. The study concludes that students learning online courses execute drastically better as compared to those who attend traditional classroom. Additionally, the study analyzed various other factors about learning online to support its findings.

On-line or On-campus

There are many varying thoughts on whether online learning is the same quality as traditional face-to-face on-campus education. I have been both a traditional undergraduate student with face-to-face instruction along with some online courses, and now am an online graduate student as I am completing my MS at the University of Alabama. With this array of experience, I feel I have sufficient knowledge to make a comparison myself.