Why is it that no one treats online students like students?
By sharone74
@sharone74 (4837)
United States
August 2, 2007 11:42am CST
It seems as though if you go to school online that people fail to grasp the idea that you are really going to school , that you need to study, or that your goals are as important to you and your degree is as a valid to you as that of any other student . My next month and them and you has worked in education for 23 years would get angry when I Made comparisons were drew parallels between his two daughters who are going to break and mortar colleges and the efforts that time was put in forth one minute and collegiate course of study. Unfortunately this type of undermining is not uncommon in fact it is all too common . People tend to believe that online students are not as smart , as prudent, nor are they to receive as valid a degree as those mom and dad mooching youngsters that lack the skills and the ability to win in a virtual college . Do you think that college is any different if you go to college from your home or you go to college by way of leaving home?
would you like to know one of the major differences? The most notable of the differences is that your classes are compressed into 9 week quarters, however those nine week long courses our comprised of the very same course work as that which a brick and mortar college of science for an entire semester . Also unlike brick and mortar students online students have seven days or weeks , so why is it so hard to accept and to commend an online student while at the same time around parents crow over the lesser acomplishments of their own sweet little darlings who are costing them an average of $10,000.00 per school year ?
4 responses
@d_hapke (165)
• United States
3 Aug 07
I started out at a brick and mortar and had to leave due to finances and the ability to have a little too much fun... ooops. Anyway, now I want to finish a degree and my only option due to 3 kids and a remote location is online school. i had to do a lot of research and interviewing to decide where to go. i also had to seriously consider my kids schedule and my husband's willingness to support me. because i feel like it's too much (the youngest is still 5 mos.) i am putting off enrolling for now. but, that's because it takes just as much attention as a physical school does. i think the misconception comes from earlier online schools where people were paying other kids to take the courses for them. now online classes have advanced and they are more intensive. people can still fool the system, but, so can B&M schools. anyway, i've learned that for the vast majority of the common people, any degree will do for advancing in your career. the name just doesn't mean as much for most of the professions out there. of course, higher level jobs and esteemed positions are different, as are medical careers and so on. i agree with you though, we should do away with the stigma. it's just a matter of time i think.
@sharone74 (4837)
• United States
30 Sep 08
Luckily my degree (which I will have in 5 weeks) does not say University of Phoenix online it simply says that I earned a degree from the UofP. Anyione who looks at it logically will be capable of figuring it out by the fact that I never lived in Phoenix duringmy school years. Yes a lot of people used to cheat at tyheir online educations but now there is so much homework to be done that it is insane to try to get someone else to do it for you.
@Farside604 (870)
• Canada
23 Sep 08
I think the stigma attached to online schools is that they havent been time tested the same way traditional universites have. First of all everyday i get a bunhc of spam in my email. More often than not offers include Viagra,Male enhancement, cheap magazine subscription and online universities. I read an article saying employers are quite reluctant when hiring somone from an online school, for an important poition. This is probably because they dont want to take a risk on someone unless they know they went through a simliar education they did. There is no question that online school are cheaper and when u think about it, ya they should be. he real cost of running an online school are a bunch of computers maybe a few porfesssors who actually have their PhD but other than that u can have people with bacheloer degrees running everything.
@theprogamer (10534)
• United States
23 Apr 08
Now that's weird...
I mean from my perspective school is heading more towards online than physical presence. I respect people for getting an education either way. Even self study deserves commendation. It doesn't really matter where you go or what you want to study, just that you are getting your education and doing what you want.
By the way, some universities aren't so great... usually filled with classes of know-nothing professors or agenda driven professors... and other nonsense. Some classes (just like K-12) there wasn't much to learn, or really not much was taught. Kind of puts that $800 billion in "education" to shame (especially when compared to other education systems from around the world... plus homeschooling)
@citrusemma (508)
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23 Apr 08
I agree with you, I have a friend who decided to study online and when I told my parents, my mum was like "She could've done much better"
At this I was extremely annoyed. I don't see ANYTHING wrong with working online, it's the same prinicple! Maybe you need more discipline online, though, without the teachers physically being there?
And I believe it saves money, so may be the smarter option.
However, I don't think I'd have been able to discipline myself to talk it as seriously on the computer, being a great procrastinator, and I love the atmosphere of my uni, so online study is not for me!
But for my friend it was, so why not?
It is different for everybody!
