Is Online Learning as Effective as Traditional Classrooms?
we purchase state-of-the-art, high definition, flat screen TVs made in Japan from upscale big box discount stores.The evolution of online educational programs has occurred in much the same way. In the beginning, correspondence courses in which lessons were transmitted via the postal system were popular. By the 1960s and 70s television began to play a more prominent role. And with the advent of the personal home computer in the late 1980s and the Internet boom of the 1990s and beyond the shift to web-based training seemed to be the natural next step. During their infancy, it appears that online college degree programs were met with skepticism by educators and employers alike. Were these programs legitimate or simply fraudulent scams and diploma mills pumping out fake credentials to anyone willing to pay the fees? Opinions on this issue were decidedly mixed. However, even among those who accepted that the programs were real another troubling question still loomed: Can online learning eve
