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online degree programs psychology | What are the barriers to online education acceptance

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

I don’t know about you, but when 95% of all the CAO’s (Chief Academic Officers) of higher education agree that there big barriers to the odoption of online learning, I sit up and take notice.

That figure is from the latest Sloan report on online education.

So why do so many of the CAO’s out see barriers to the acceptance of distance learning.

I’ll start with the information from the Sloan report, and then some of my own ideas.

According to the Sloan report, two-thirds of the faculty reported that online students need to have better discipline.

My take - well I’m still trying to figure out what that exactly means

you could take it to say that there is a need for more management of student’s activities online, including what actions to take if students abuse the online system, or fail to complete their assignments.

But I think it means that students learning online need to remember that it does take more self-discipline than with a traditional class. I’ve talked about this before. If you’re online you often don’t have a dorm mate telling you to wake up and go to class, for example.

So that’s one reason professors say that there is a barrier to distance education acceptance.

More to come…