- What are some of the ways new systems could be created that would allow for “certificates,” from online courses, to count as “credits” towards college? Or towards earning any sort of crendtial?
- Online classes revolve around the idea of more avalability for people looking to get a higher education. But it seems that it would be more avaliable for those who own a computer and those who are able to get internet acess for these courses. There are resources such as public libraries where students can get both a computer and intenet acess needed for the class; but it would seem that this turns the idea of avalability on its head and reduce the problem of “not being able to get to campus” to, “not being able to get to a computer with wifi.” With this in mind, do online courses favor those who have the resources to acquire laptops, home computers, wifi data, etc.?
- The on-going debate between whether in class lecture, or online courses are more useful, is more prevalent than ever. But would not the simple answer be to offer both options? Although one may be objectivley better, the prefrance of one way of learning over another is soley up to the individual.
- How does the offering of online courses both promote as well as hinder the agenda of higher educational institutions when interpreting these institutions to be businesses? I see the implmentation of online courses, as a whole, to many educationl facillities, at once, more as a draw back for the business aspect of the insitution.
- “The Open Learning Initiative” at Carnagie Mellon is a perfect example of how online courses mkae it much easier to pin-point the problmes classes face when trying to learn ceratain material in a specific course. How can this example be used literally and as a metaphor to sum up some of the more major issues with higher education as we know it?
