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13.2.6 :-) Anthony (to whom ???)
This is my fourteenth online course. All of my undergraduate studies and my first two graduate courses
were taken in the traditional manner. I have found no difference
in my ability to succeed and to learn the topic of a course because it was online instead of face-to-face.
I did well in the topics that I normally did well in and I had
problems with those topics that I typically have had problems with in the past. One difference is that
I actually had far more contact with the professor online than I did
in a F2F course. While I had the professor's phone number and email address for an F2F, the focus on
meeting once a week tended to subconsciously guide my
participation as well. I would wait until the next class for clarification and only contacted the professor
if the problem would impact an assignment due during the next
session. While online I could email the professor at will and the majority responded with 24 hours at
most.
You cannot replay a verbal conversation and thus cannot review a later date except through the
limited human memory. As far as the speed of response, that is the
responsibility of the professor to correct and again, not a reason against online discourse as much
as a critique of the professor's ability to teach the course. No, you
will not have an instant response unless you're are in a chat room and discussing the assignment in
real-time, however, the first step here is also the professors
responsibility ? writing well is not simply the student's responsibility in order to obtain a passing
grade, but the professor's responsibility as well when drafting the
assignment. That's not to say that all questions will be eliminated, but a well-written assignment should
eliminate the most especially the one that you provided as
support to your argument. Definitions of terms that were not covered in the reading or are not part
of the overall discourse within the discussion so far is a requirement in
regards to how the assignment is written.
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