Are students with specific learning styles drawn to either online or face-to-face courses?
A. I haven’t been able to find a difference between the students. The students in both types of classes seem to be the same. What’s happening is that in the face-to-face environment — which is a very traditional environment, where you get a lot of warm and fuzzy feeling, a lot of body English, a lot of intimate rapport in real time on a weekly basis — you create an environment of trust, because it’s the traditional way of communicating with people. The people online are a little more distant. They tend to be a little more abrupt in their communication. It’s easier to tell somebody to go where online. It’s very difficult to do that face to face. Ethics and behavior are a little different. And I think it also takes a longer period of time to establish trust. You have the question of a time zone and the lack of almost touching each other. So this is a bit of the process somewhat. But the other side of the coin is that online you can have so much richer environment in terms of databases,
