Courseing : Challenging Traditional Education

Getting into college are the goal for many students, yet MOOCs are a much cheaper option for students who are ready for the material and the challenge. Cristina mendoza is one of three students, along with James Gregory, and Hugh Gallagher, who’s goals are to go into into a good college and acheive success in life. She is one of many smart and diverse people who are capable of completing a MOOC. There are many things, such as her acceptance of her diverse nature, her smarts, and uniquness of her work shows that she is the most capable of taking part in and completing a online learning environment successfully.

Many students have a difficult time choosing between online education and traditional education. Both styles of education offer advantages and disadvantages to the student. There are many things to consider when making this life altering decision, such as, cost, convenience, time, social interaction, and technology. This information is meant to inform prospective students looking to further their education of the pros and cons of both online education and traditional education. Taking the steps to further your education is a big decision and one that should not be taken lightly. One should weigh all of his/her options and be well informed and certain of their choice before taking that leap.

Even with these disadvantages, Massive Open Online Courses are still a positive aspect for the current and future online students because with the free and easily accessible MOOCS classes, perspective online students have an alternative to education and it’s free! In order for the online universities to stay competitive, it is likely that MOOCS may force online universities to significantly lower online courses that are for credit (Casement, 2013).

A number of studies found that student background and pre-college experiences can affect attrition rates in online classes (Atchley et al., 2013; Gregory & Lampley, 2016; Harrell & Bower, 2011; Kaupp, 2012; Palacios & Wood, 2015; Smart & Saxon, 2015; Stanford-Bowers,

(1) What is the article about? This article is about student’s experiences with the online courses based on interviews, online groups and observations. The Author talks about the negative and positive aspects of online courses. What teachers can do to improve the teaching of online courses? He also talks about what students’ perception

To summarize, the topic presented in this article is about online courses which are widely used in colleges providing easy access to course materials, classroom discussions, and feedback to instructors. The course materials and activities may be accessed from any computer, whether it is from the University or from the comfort of your own home.

A Mooc is a massive open online course, a common course would last around 6 to 10 weeks. You can take all types of college courses for free, the only downside is that It’s creditless. I have been researching three students named Gallagher, Mendoza, and Gregory. By examining Gallagher’s creativity, eagerness to learn, and his confidence, it is clear that he is the best candidate for a MOOC.

I believe that the benefits that students take from this course far transcend the negatives. However, it is understandable that not every course offered would be able to suit a student’s expectations. Thus, addressing the issues I had with this course would allow me to deliver a more whole-hearted opinion. The biggest drawback I had of this course was class participation. By class participation, I do not mean participation in small groups or CCP groups, but rather participation in which a student expresses his or her opinion to the whole class. Although it is always great to hear students’ opinions, I believe that class participation is ineffective because not all students feel comfortable with speaking in front of the whole class. It is class participation that further segregates the most eager students from the most introverted. This, as a consequence, problematizes the learning experience that was initially meant to engage all students. It is not enough for a community norm agreement to guarantee that the class is a “safe space.” A course requirement in which all students are meant to express their ideas sounds good in theory, but rarely do we find that it plays out well in

What is tradition? How do traditions evolve? Look at it this way, we have all gone to school at some point of our lives. When you think school, you think the basics,which are: pens, pencils, other students and a teacher. That’s the “normal” form of education that everyone knows. However, MOOC breaks that tradition. Traditional schools and universities have other students in the same room going at the same pace as you. With MOOC you are an individual, “the MOOC is a full course made with you in mind.” This suggests that MOOC is made to fit you and can easily be modified to personalize it to your taste. It’s made to satisfy you and make sure you are learning to your best abilities. “Then -this is the key- videos pause perhaps twice for a quiz to make sure you understand the material” That is a big difference. You can’t pause a real lecture and test how well you understand something. MOOC also allows people to adjust the speed of the video. You can have it go at a slow speed or a fast pace depending on how you learn. Another tradition MOOC has seemed to break is having a qualified person teaching their students. According to Dr.Stavens. “Just because a person is the world’s most famous economist doesn’t mean they are the best person to teach the subject.” This suggests that MOOC selects the best person to teach their courses and make sure the students understand. You don’t need to be well known and have a bunch of degrees, “students will want to learn from whoever

For the initial phase of this exploratory study regarding completion rates, data sets are available through different internet sources that contain all ex post rates. These data sets are publicly available. The first phase will utilize extant data. To attain traditional college completion rates, the National Center for Education Statistics has data sets available for download that can be customized. Since MOOCs are available internationally, the most appropriate data set for this particular quantitative research would include college completion rates by country as a starting point. Additionally, an overall average can be extracted from this data. This would give us the average completion rate for traditional colleges. The next step would be to gather data for MOOC completion rates. Using internet searches there is information available at Class Central. Class Central has complied completion data for all courses offered by Coursera, EdX, and Udacity, which are the three main platforms for MOOCs. The enrollment and completion data for each course have been recorded. Completion is defined by finishing all the requirements necessary for a certificate. Other data, such as course length, institution ranking, and active users, are also recorded on these data sets. This data set includes courses over the span of eighteen months. This information will assist in answering the primary research question: how do MOOC completion rates vary

There is a lot of poor communication in online classes. There will be students who will never email the instructors for more details about an assignments, or, there will be older students who don’t know how to email the instructors for more details. If the student doesn’t understand an assignment, and never emails to ask for more details, can result in a poor grade for the lack of knowledge in knowing what they’re doing. There’s one final drawback to not having social interactions with instructors; Students can potentially miss out on building relationships that can result in helpful guidance and recommendation letters down the road when needed.

Technology is evolving and now offers people opportunities that weren 't possible before. One new opportunity that technology has to offer is online classes. Online courses are courses that are offered strictly over the internet. With online classes, assignments and lectures are communicated through an online website. Face to face (f2f) classes, also called, traditional classes are classes that take place in a classroom with a teacher interacting with his students. Dr. Steven Stack, a science research author and professor, states that the number of students enrolled in at least one online course increased from 1,602,970 in 2002 to 6,714,792 in 2011. With an increasing number of students enrolling in online courses, more colleges are

Education has undergone significant changes because of the development of information and communication technology over the 21st century (Lin & Jou, 2012:2). As a convenient and inexpensive way to gain knowledge while pursuing higher education, online learning, a form of training or teaching that takes place over the Internet, has been considered as an alternative to traditional classroom learning (Zhang et al, 2004). This essay will argue that even though online learning has benefit such as flexibility which could outweigh traditional learning, traditional classroom learning might still not be entirely replaced. This essay will discuss positive and negative aspects of online and traditional learning in terms of four criteria:

Nowadays, education is becoming one of the fundamental things in a human lifetime; most people are trying to achieve a higher education. As technology develops considerably, it has bearings on every area of our life, even in the way of education. The development of technology has a large impact on education. Before this progression of technology, the education system was only traditional. Currently, the education system has been changed. The development of technology has allowed the education system online along with traditionally. Traditional and online instructions are both great ways to learn. While both types of instructions have the same purpose of educating students having good skills about everything, but there are some significant differences between them such as flexibility, learning the course content, communication, and the cost.

In many schools, online classes are becoming more available to students. Recent studies show that the use of online classes has been rapidly increasing over the past three years. Currently, there are a total of 6,700,000 students enrolled in all different variations of courses