Would You Take Online Classes?
SodaHead Sports
2012/07/21 18:45:36
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Online education definitely has its benefits. It can save students time and money in terms of cheaper tuition and less traveling to college campuses. Like many other things in life, online education can also have its drawbacks, as recently covered by The New York Times (Read more: "The Trouble With Online Education.") Online courses can be more good than bad or vice versa depending who you are.
If you are someone that needs more hands-on learning, being in a traditional classroom or lecture hall may be more beneficial to you. Having a teacher explain concepts to you front row center is sometimes a lot better than reading words on a computer screen, followed by a couple chapters in a textbook. Even instructional videos, as visually explanatory as they are, can't necessarily replace a professor that can sit down and walk you through everything.
As we mentioned before though, everybody is different. Some students are self-starters and can read chapter to chapter, cover to cover, and go through instructional videos understanding everything there is to know in a course. At the end of the day, no matter how a student does in an online course, there is a part of the college experience--the relationship with professors and classmates, enjoying the college campus, etc.--that they will be missing out on.
What about you SodaHeads? Would you take online classes?
If you are someone that needs more hands-on learning, being in a traditional classroom or lecture hall may be more beneficial to you. Having a teacher explain concepts to you front row center is sometimes a lot better than reading words on a computer screen, followed by a couple chapters in a textbook. Even instructional videos, as visually explanatory as they are, can't necessarily replace a professor that can sit down and walk you through everything.
As we mentioned before though, everybody is different. Some students are self-starters and can read chapter to chapter, cover to cover, and go through instructional videos understanding everything there is to know in a course. At the end of the day, no matter how a student does in an online course, there is a part of the college experience--the relationship with professors and classmates, enjoying the college campus, etc.--that they will be missing out on.
What about you SodaHeads? Would you take online classes?
Read More: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/20/opinion/the-trou...
As for the bible is is a great book of fiction and rates right up there with other religious text like the Vedas, the Popul Vuh, the Epic of Gilgamesh and so on. But as a factual or historical book it is nothing but myth. Yes I have read the bible in 4 different version including in Latin. Yes you believe it is the word of god but billions believe other works are the words of god and what they all have in common is any proof or real fact. There is little to no historical or archaeological evidence for anything in the bible or the other works of religionn
To understand the bible[ word of God], one has to believe there is a God first...otherwise, anything read or studied is for naught.
I was raised knowing right from wrong and it had nothing to do with gods or religions. Right from wrong is part of the human evolutionary tool kit from long before the Egyptians invented the monotheistic god the Hebrews co-opted. BTW when I firs read the bible I did believe in that myth. When I read it in both Latin and in English. But I also read other myths and studied other beliefs and found them all lacking in one thing fact. They are all very well written myths with no basis in reality.
All of us [ most all of us ] were raised to know right from wrong, very true, But, there is so much more to be learned that God wants us to learn. His 10 Commandments are very important and a way of life, but not only do them, but learn how to obey them. For instance...the greatest commamd there is, to love your neighbor as yourself. Sometimes that's mighty hard to do if your neighbor is a jerk. But, we are still suppose to learn how to love that indiviual, not like what he/she does, but love them. Sometimes its hard to do and it takes God to help us do it.
There are many that think God is a myth, but there is a day coming [ probably sooner than we think considering what's happening in the world and in our own country ] that all will know there is a God.
That day you speak about was first prophesied supposedly by jesus. Hell there is no proof he even existed. Plus he is not the creator god that supposedly did all this and that gave the 10 commandments. Most of which are about him and nothing more. Damn big ego there. Four out of ten, 60% about him and his greatness. Not to mention if you look at that he admits there are other gods. BTW those commandments that do not deal with god being worshiped but things like murder were already laws written dome by the Babylonians and older cultures before there was a tribe of Hebrews.
Biblically, there have been times when God told others to go in and kill all, because of idol worshipping, witchcraft, etc. He didn't do it because he hates his children, He did it because he knew evil would spread if he didn't stop it. To explain almost 43 years of study to you about this and other things and questions people have, would take a large book for me to write. But there are answers to most of the questions coming out of that bible. I use the Greek and Hebrew with my studies and it helps a lot to better understand the bible.
Head, About most of the traveling I've done is when my husband was in the Military and most of what I have learned is through some very tough research and tons of hours staying up late. I've had a lot of years [ 70 ] to learn much too and still I'm amazed at things I haven't learned yet. But, I keep trying.
As for my travel it was as an Anthropologist to Africa, Central and South America and the South Pacific.
I know I could do it for most of the subjects but probably not Math because I get bored easily with that subject
I think this is how schooling will inevitably be done in the future, and the fact that information technology hasn't already replaced brick & mortar schools is a testament to the sluggishness, complacency, and resistance to change present in the educational industry now.
On the other hand, I'd probably be able to grasp concepts better if a teacher were actually saying how something works, rather than me just reading about how it works :)
By hands on though I mean, I learn better with a tutor taking me through it.
I work better alone and people frustrate me easily, so this was a better option.
Online classes aren't for everyone, however, I will say that.
I am currently looking to learn a language online