engineering degree online : A Professor comments on distance learning

Posted by bposton on October 24th, 2006 — Posted in engineering degree online

Here’s an interesting quote from George Gollin, a physics professor at the University of Illinois.

Gollin has studied distance learning, and he says that many online programs are reputable and are a good way for some people to get a degree.

Here’s what he had to say:

“I think it can be a very good way for someone who’s been out of school for a while, has a family, has a job and can’t put down their obligations to increase their education.

For many classes, there’s no reason they couldn’t be taught online, though there are some areas of study that would be difficult to teach from a distance. It’s hard to imagine where you can teach someone to be a modern dancer via distance learning. Physics also may be difficult to arrange, especially with complicated lab work.”

But Gollin said he wouldn’t rule out those types of classes completely.

“I think there are ways to get around some of the things you might think are too hard,” he said.

So here’s a college professor who beleives as I do that getting an online degree is becoming easier and easier. Maybe even to the point of calling it “mainstream”?

OK, not yet, but maybe soon…

Ben

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