...Hartman Lynn McClelland ENG 101 29 February 2016 Online vs. Traditional Education During the final year of high school, the pressure of going to college is at its peak. Drilling into our heads that, college is the best route to go after high school if we want to have a “bright” future. No doubt majority of students go to college directly after, but some end up waiting to go later on. Fortunately, there are other options available today for those who had to wait to go. Online schooling, the ability to get a higher education online, without the traditional classroom setting. Now the burning question, just how much better is online learning anyway? There are many factors in determining whether the online route or the traditional way is better. Things like the cost of education, the academic performance of students, or the environment you wish to learn. Let’s dig a bit deeper to find out just what the facts will prove! The thing today that most people think about before making their decision about which way to go, is the environment that would best suite their current life situations. For instance, “students who freely choose online classes may have different characteristics, like they may be older, or have children, or are employed full time” (Dr. Stack 2015 Learning outcomes in an online vs traditional course pa.9). It is this flexibility that makes it possible for people with these characteristics to get a higher education. Just think about it, if you have multiple responsibilities...
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...Jason Francis Herbert Pimlott Rhetorical Analysis November 13, 2012 This essay argues that the Globe and Mail (G&M) article, ‘Don’t Teach Until You See the Whites of Their Eyes’ (18 August 2012), is persuasive with its primary target audience of G&M readers. Clifford Orwin, the author of this article, is a professor of political science at the University of Toronto. Furthermore, the main focus of this article deals with the fact that: “Real education requires real teachers and students, not disembodied electronic wraiths.” Through the rhetorical analysis of this editorial, this paper will demonstrate that its persuasiveness can be attributed to four key aspects: through an emphasis on the use of deliberative stasis; its use of ethos and logos; and through its effective use of rhetorical imagery. Before the case can be made for understanding how and why this article is persuasive, we need to begin with setting the context of the issue or exigence to which the article was responding and whether that response was timely and appropriate. To understand the exigence of this article, the interpretation of Orwin’s implied audience is necessary to grasp how the two concepts within exigence, kairos and phronesis, both link text, context and audience together. Through an extensive analysis of the assumptions made by Orwin, the implied audience consists predominantly of instructors. Moreover, Orwin’s motto: “Don’t teach until you see the whites of their eyes.” Also used as...
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...Online Education Pros and Cons Keith Washington Com 155 November 7, 2013 Mary Ellen Greenwood Online schools, as well as traditional schools have many advantages and disadvantages. Some may find that online schooling is for them, and some may find that a traditional school is the type of learning environment to help best achieve receiving a degree. Students can earn the same valuable degree from an online school as a traditional college or university. It depends on if the students are comfortable with a structured outline and the level of commitment it will take to complete online courses. Online students must also have good study habits as well as being self motivated if the student plans on graduating from an online college. If a student needs guidance to complete assignments then it is highly not recommended that that student attend an online campus. As for some students the pros may outweigh the cons, as for others the cons may outweigh the pros. For those students who have trouble learning without a physical presence of a teacher should know that nearly all online teachers or professors have a limited role in the way their classes are taught. Usually the students guide is pre-written or prerecorded course material. Some students may see this as a problem. The most interaction a online student will receive will be in the form a weekly discussion question, and feedback on graded assignments. There are students that will...
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...Introduction Comparison Pros and Cons Case Study Conclusion Online conferencing replace traditional communication method Introduction Traditional communication method, history. Online conferencing today Roles in different stage to society, organization, personal and business. Comparison Traditional communication method Online Conferencing product, function, application. Changing to society and organization Online conferencing replace traditional communication method Pro and Cons Analysis pros and cons between traditional communication method and new online conferencing New technology to market Benefits Advantage & disadvantage Case Study Skype Go-to-meeting Conclusion Life behavior changing by new technology New technology and service expecting to market! Introduction Traditional communication method Face to face Tele-audio Simplest way - Telephone, 2 parties only Conference call – One way + multiple parties Three-way calling Tele-video Mobile links to satellites using specially equipped trucks Online conference What is online conference? Online means “Connected to a computer and internet, we called this as “Web Conference” History 1980 Online chat service by CompuServe Early 1980s Electronic Meeting System as university and research projects Late 1980s Ancestor of modern Electronic Meeting System “Group System” at 1989. 1992 Popular online video-conferencing tool CU-SeeMe first...
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...Online Education vs. Traditional Education Online Education vs. Traditional Education There are different ways to access higher education, either through online education or traditional education. For centuries, online education could not compare to traditional education. Today, online education competes with traditional education in many ways. Though online education has become very popular, how does one know which is best for him or her? Identifying the pros and cons through flexibility, communication, interaction, skills development, and affordability will help the student decide the best option. Although online education seems to be taking over the traditional means of education, both are great options in different ways. The bottom line is that the world is becoming technologically smart. For one juggling home, school, and a job, it can be difficult commuting to class every day. Online education eliminates the need to attend class. Online courses allow the student to access coursework from an Internet site. Motivated, responsible, independent learners can work at their own pace, whenever is suitable for them. This allows the flexibility that a traditional classroom setting does not provide. However, one who struggles to be self-motivated may fall quickly behind. In a traditional classroom setting the student has to attend class on campus. Traditional education is for a learner who needs more lecturing to understand and also needs to be able to ask questions as he...
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...Starting an E Commerce Online Business Keller Graduate School of Management Managerial Applications of Information Technology 11/12/2011 [Type the fax number] Jamie Lynch You want to start an E commerce business selling your products and services online but how to get started? Milestone 1 Problem: The business problem to be solved is how can an entrepreneur start and maintain a successful E commerce business online? Background: The first key to starting a successful online business is to first understand ecommerce and how it operates. Most people understand that ecommerce or electronic commerce refers to the buying and selling of products or services over electronic systems such as the Internet and other computer networks. However, it stretches beyond just the buying and selling of goods; it also includes an online process of developing, marketing, selling, delivering, servicing and paying for products and services. “The use of commerce is conducted in this way, spurring and drawing on innovations in electronic funds transfer, supply chain management, internet marketing, online transaction processing, electronic data interchange (EDI), inventory management systems, and automated data collection systems. Modern electronic commerce typically uses the World Wide Web at least at one point in the transaction's life-cycle, although it may encompass a wider range of technologies such as e-mail, mobile devices and telephones as well”. (Electronic Commerce, modified...
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...February 20, 2012 Dr. Douglas Gilbert, DBA, JD, MBA Raising and Countering Objections Regarding the Decision to Get an MBA The number four has many meanings. In East Asia the number four represents death. I agree with this superstition for a reason. It took me four years to decide if I should pursue an advance degree. I have finally put my fears to rest and have decided to embark on the journey of attaining my Masters of Business Administration with a concentration in Health Care by February 2014. This decision took me four years due to several pros and cons I weighed, uncertainty of what degree to pursue and my current career. There are several advantages and disadvantages that I weighed during my journey to decide on pursuing an advance degree. With completing my undergraduate program not only did I get a degree in Business Administration I also incurred a hefty amount of debt, $40,000 worth. According to an online article in 2011 the average cost for graduate school was $10,000 per year at a state college (Jo, 2011). These individuals often have to pay off their loans for between 10 to 25 years, depending on the amount they owe. People do not have many options for getting out of debt when they cannot pay their student loans, as private and federal loans are not subject to bankruptcy (Latzko, 2011). Along with this adding on to the debt this can also be time consuming. Another hindrance is that I do not have any experience in the health care field. If I do attain...
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...1. Factors Affecting Mathematics Performance of High School Students 2. Personality Types Affecting the Performance of 1st Year BSBA-HRDM Students of Polytechnic University of the Philippines Santa Rosa Campus S.Y.2015-2016 3. Advantages and Disadvantages of Joining the Artist Guild to the Students of Polytechnic University of the Philippines Santa Rosa Campus S.Y.2015-2016 4. The Common Studying Habits of the 1st Year IT Students in Polytechnic University of the Philippines Santa Rosa Campus 5. The Effectiveness of Having a New Computer Laboratory for Learning Improvements in Computer Related Subjects Polytechnic University of the Philippines Santa Rosa Campus 6. Common Problems of BSIT Students in Using Computer Laboratory in Polytechnic University of the Philippines Santa Rosa Campus 7. The Effects of Noise Pollution Around the Campus Vicinity of Polytechnic University of the Philippines Santa Rosa Campus 8. Factors Affecting the Implementation of the Polytechnic University of the Philippines Santa Rosa Campus Rules and Regulations 9. The Common Learning Techniques in Programming of 1st Year BSIT Student of Polytechnic University of the Philippines Santa Rosa Campus 10. Factors that Affects the Learning of Students Inside the Classroom 11. Benefits of Having Programming Tutorials to the BSIT Students of Polytechnic University of the Philippines Santa Rosa Campus 12. Advantage and Disadvantages of Having Computer Shops near at Polytechnic...
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...kinds—expensive, elite colleges, state universities, and community colleges—are flirting with the idea of MOOCS, massive open online courses, where tens of thousands of students can take the same class simultaneously. Is this the future of college? Nathan Heller wrote about the phenomenon in the May 20, 2013 issue of The New Yorker in "Laptop U." I recommend you find a copy or subscribe online for the full article, but I'll share with you here what I gleaned as the pros and cons of MOOCS from Heller's article. What Is a MOOC? The short answer is that a MOOC is an online video of a college lecture. The M stands for massive because there is no limit to the number of students who can enroll from anywhere in the world. Anant Agarwal is a professor of electrical engineering and computer science at MIT, and president of edX, a non-profit MOOC company owned jointly MIT andHarvard. In 2011, he launched a forerunner called MITx (Open Courseware), hoping to get 10 times the usual number of classroom students in his spring-semester circuits-and-electronics course, about 1,500. In the first few hours of posting the course, he told Heller, he had 10,000 students sign up from all over the world. The ultimate enrollment was 150,000. Massive. The Pros MOOCs are controversial. Some say they are the future of higher education. Others see them as the eventual downfall of it. Here are the pros Heller found in his research. MOOCS: 1. Are free. Right now, most MOOCs are free or nearly free, a definite...
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...1) Looking at pros and cons of the various business models for movie consumption, there are a few major areas to investigate; Value proposition, costs, customer relationships, channels, revenue and customers. As the other areas included in the business model canvas – key activities, key partners and resources, are probably relatively similar for all of the companies in the movie rental business I am going to focus on the one’s first mentioned. In order to offer a good value proposition the customer need to feel that the level of satisfaction gained is higher than the cost of obtaining the product, in this case a rental movie. Considering the movie market now a days this means that renting the movie should be quick, cheap and easy. This might be hard if you like blockbusters have actual stores. However, it might improve customer relationships and feedback on products as they get a personal connection with their customers. As Blockbusters in recent years started offering online alternatives as well as vending machines they actually reach all potential target markets (consider people without internet-connection) and therefore get revenues even if they do not hold the biggest market share anymore. However, as a company with actual stores their cost is higher than the one’s who provide their services online, which is a huge minus. Online-based companies have a quick, cheap way to reach their customers via different channels while it might be more troublesome for store-based Blockbuster...
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...Stella Hester EN102 English Composition II Course Project Submission Are you aware of what your child is doing online? Parents should stay well informed on what their teenagers are posting online. In this day and time social networking is a way of life with teenagers. With websites like facebook, twitter, linked in, and myspace we can update everything we do day to day in a matter of seconds. We can also post pictures, tell who are with us, and inform people of our location. These are all excellent things if they are used in the positive light of social networking, but how often are they not? Teenagers are now using these sites to harass and bully peers online. They also leave doors open for adult predators and identity theft. There has been research on the effects of social networking in teens that closely link them to low grades, psychological and social problems, and not being as active which leads them to being overweight. Statistics show that about 75% of teenagers have cell phones, which raises the question “Are we aware of what our teens are posting online”? There are many pros to our children using social media but we as parents have a duty to protect them. We must be good role models and be aware of privacy issues and concerns. There are advancement’s in today’s technology that make it easy for our children to network and stay in touch with their peers. Children who are not likely to socialize the traditional way because of shyness and social anxiety can use their...
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...did make me enough money to pay bills but it left me short on doing things with my daughter and getting food and clothes on our backs. So I decided to sit down one day and think about what I wanted to do with my life and where I wanted to be in the future. I have never really been one to just rush right into something without making a list of pros and cons, and I did just that! First thing I decided to do was to make a list of pros and cons and based on the outcome I would understand if I could financially afford it, and if it was worth the time. I did pros and cons to going to a community college vs. online college. Being a single mother I couldn’t give up time with my daughter especially if I didn’t have someone to watch her. That was the biggest con to going to a community college. My biggest con to going to an online college was whether or not I would make myself sit down and do the work or not with a toddler running around. After looking over my lists I decided I could do the work and that it would be much better to stay home with her and still be able to do homework and get my education. Second thing I did was call different online schools to get all the information I could on the kind of program I wanted, which was Business Management/Small business Entrepreneurship. I asked for the...
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...The Comparison Between Online and Traditional Classes Kayla Staples National American University Kayla Staples EN1550 Online vs Traditional Classes There are many different pros and cons to taking online classes versus traditional in class classes. A counselor or teacher is someone that could help a student determine which type of classes best fits the student. Before deciding on such a big decision, a student must first take into consideration how disciplined they are as a student to get their work done. Discipline as a student is a number one factor when it comes to deciding on a online or a traditional class room class. Being an online student takes a lot of discipline because you do not have someone standing there telling you exactly how to do your work. You also do not have someone there who can help you right away with questions you may have on your assignment. An online student needs to be organized and able to complete tasks on a certain deadline without being reminded daily. Being a traditional class student could be a better route for someone who does not have much discipline outside of the classroom. While being in class, you have to get your work done in a certain time and you have that time to do it in class. You teacher and peers are in class with you if you ever get in a stump on an assignment and need to ask questions. Flexibility is another factor that needs to come into play when a student decides on which type of class to take. If a student...
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...kim Jones January 19, 2014 Government II Immigration This paper is about immigration and the D.R.E.A.M Act. This paper will cover the DREAM Act and the pros and cons of immigration. The DREAM Act is simply the development, relief, and education for alien minors and is sponsored by the Democratic Representative Howard L. Berman of California. There are a few provisions within the Act, such as, “The requirement of an alien to apply for cancellation of removal and conditional permanent resident status within one year after earning high school diploma or general education development certificate in the United States or after the effective date of related final regulations” (U.S. House 2011). Another provision being, if required, an immigrant applying for conditional permanent resident status to register under the Military Selective Service Act and undergo a medical examination (U.S. House 2011). According to Harrison, “Each year millions of immigrants enter the United States, some legally and others illegally, to take advantage of the quality of life in the United States.” (Harrison 2011,517). A negative impact that immigration has on the United States is overcrowding. Excessive use of our resources in the United States by immigrants limits the amount of resources available for US citizens. Another negative impact is the spread of diseases from other countries by immigrants entering the U.S. (Oak, 2011). On the contrary, a positive impact of immigration would be the...
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...demand of online degree programs has increased inpopularity. In fact, within the United States, 6.7 million students enrolled in at least one online course in fall 2011—an increase of more than 500,000 students compared to 2010. What is the big difference in online versus traditional education? “Each student learns differently and in today's era of increasing technology, the question will not be whether to offer classes online, but rather how to implement them,” says Allison Hiltz, a former online and traditional education student who writes for The Book Wheel Blog. There are several options when it comes to online or traditional education degrees. The platform offers everything from certificates and diplomas to more advanced degree options such as an associate or bachelor’s degree. With constant changes in technology from all different degree programs, let’s take a look at the advantages to an online versus traditional education and examine how each type of education impacts you as a student. The job market has become much more competitive in the last few years. As companies cut back on labor to stay in business, education has become extremely important for employees who want to be more competitive in their current positions or want to transition into a new career. The level of competition for good jobs has made obtaining a certification or degree an absolute necessity. More people are returning to school than ever before. Many are choosing to obtain degrees online while others...
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