E-Campus allows full-time workers to attend college
Kathryn Jones
Issue date: 6/8/05 Section: News
The Internet allows students to "take courses [convenient] to work and family schedules." These classes can be accessed at 2 am if you'd like. If you decide to take English 1010, along with Internet use, for example, chats are also required one day a week, per the instructor's choice.
If a TELEcourse is your option, you will find "watching the television programs and reading the print materials from home," flexible and convenient. The programs are broadcast over KULC Channel 9 and may require you to have access online for course materials.
A VIDEOcassette or DVD class, are pre-packaged TELEcourses. Here, you are required to purchase the package at the beginning of the semester. You are assessed a $25.00 charge. After the course, the tape or CD is yours to keep. The fee also includes "duplication, licensing, and other handling costs." For more information contact the eEducation Service Center at 957-4406 or email: distance.help@slcc.edu. Internet access may be required.
Students may register for an eCampus course the same way you register for an in-class course. The cost is the same. Some courses require an in-person meeting with the instructor during the semester, but many of the meetings are held via the Internet. Deadlines for course completion still apply and eCampus courses transfer.
With so many options to save time and give students the space they need to hold a job as well, there are some who may question this option, believing distance education to be a less than helpful solution.
According to the Wisconsin State Journal, a "potential problem with getting an education exclusively on a computer screen is more cultural. Online students clearly miss out on the campus experience."
Some, like JustColleges.com, suggest online learning may even be more difficult, depending on the teacher. "Instructors need to learn to be effective online teachers," and online learning "requires new skills and responsibilities from learners."
For example, online classes may not work for a student who is a procrastinator. Without face to face classroom interaction, it might be easier for students to wait until the last minute to do assignments or fail to do them at all.
And yet, there is one important plus besides the all important 'time' factor when it comes to attending school away from school. According to the Wisconsin State Journal, "Online, there are no shy people. Everybody can ask anything."
If a TELEcourse is your option, you will find "watching the television programs and reading the print materials from home," flexible and convenient. The programs are broadcast over KULC Channel 9 and may require you to have access online for course materials.
A VIDEOcassette or DVD class, are pre-packaged TELEcourses. Here, you are required to purchase the package at the beginning of the semester. You are assessed a $25.00 charge. After the course, the tape or CD is yours to keep. The fee also includes "duplication, licensing, and other handling costs." For more information contact the eEducation Service Center at 957-4406 or email: distance.help@slcc.edu. Internet access may be required.
Students may register for an eCampus course the same way you register for an in-class course. The cost is the same. Some courses require an in-person meeting with the instructor during the semester, but many of the meetings are held via the Internet. Deadlines for course completion still apply and eCampus courses transfer.
With so many options to save time and give students the space they need to hold a job as well, there are some who may question this option, believing distance education to be a less than helpful solution.
According to the Wisconsin State Journal, a "potential problem with getting an education exclusively on a computer screen is more cultural. Online students clearly miss out on the campus experience."
Some, like JustColleges.com, suggest online learning may even be more difficult, depending on the teacher. "Instructors need to learn to be effective online teachers," and online learning "requires new skills and responsibilities from learners."
For example, online classes may not work for a student who is a procrastinator. Without face to face classroom interaction, it might be easier for students to wait until the last minute to do assignments or fail to do them at all.
And yet, there is one important plus besides the all important 'time' factor when it comes to attending school away from school. According to the Wisconsin State Journal, "Online, there are no shy people. Everybody can ask anything."
