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online degree programs psychology | More barriers to online education acceptance

Posted by bposton on December 7th, 2006 — Posted in online degree programs psychology

Here’s another reason why 95% of all the CAO’s (Chief Academic Officers) of higher education agree that there big barriers to the odoption of online learning.

According to the latest Sloan report on online education, professors say that it takes more time and effort to teach online.

My take - well I’m certainly not a professor, and I don’t “profess” to know what they’re doing

But I wonder if some of that is due to the reluctance to accept the technology that would make teaching online easier.

And maybe the professors are ready to accept it, but the college they work for isn’t - maybe due to the cost.

But I also think that there is still this stigma out there with many faculty whenever you say “distance learning” that invokes diploma mills and things of lower statue than a prestigous Ivy League environment.

They beleive that they want and need that face to face interaction on a classroom for their students to be challenged.

I don’t disagree with that thought, I just think that the technology is there that can come very close to replicating that environment. Both to teachers and students.
More to come…