The Impact Of Online Programs On Students

Adam Savage once said “I think one of the defining moments of adulthood is the realization that nobody 's going to take care of you. That you have to do the heavy lifting while you 're here. And when you don 't, well, you suffer the consequences.” Now, what if we replaced “adulthood” with the term “higher education”, or more specifically, “distance education”? The words become almost synonymous when you define what it takes to succeed in either field. In the article, College Distance Education Courses: Evaluating Benefits and Costs from Institutional, Faculty and Students’ Perspectives written by Simon A. Lei and Rajeev K. Gupta, distance education is defined as “technology-based instruction in which students are at a location physically separated from their instructor during the entire course of study” (Lei and Gupta 616). In Lei and Gupta’s article, there are many drawbacks of distance education defined, but distance education remains an amazing opportunity because the benefits and the platform to develop useful life skills far outweigh said drawbacks.

A high school education is a right that all United States citizens have, but traditional high school is not for everyone. Not all kids thrive in the traditional school room setting, and in fact may suffer to the point that they are not able to participate and drop out. Social anxiety disorder can ruin a persons ability to graduate from high school. An excelent option to traditional schooling are online courses. Online courses are beneficial to students who have social anxiety because they allow the student to work at their own pace and not feel the pressure of presenting and competing against other students. Many students enjoy school and the interpersonal relationships they develop, but for a student with social anxiety disorder, the idea of entering a classroom with a bunch of other kids can be a nightmare. The increased anxiety and fear of being called on in class or made fun of can paralyze a student. The opportunity to take online courses is the perfect solution for kids with social anxiety disorder.

She discussed a program that they have on campus called SAPE, Sexual Assault Peer Education. It is student run but they educators are trained. This program brings in the bystander and encompasses interactive presentations. It helps student identify rape culture and behaviors that contribute to rape culture. They go through scenarios, such as a party, and what a students should do if they see somebody is at high risk to get sexually assaulted. More colleges should have programs that educate people how to be an effective bystander. Programs like these help students understand that “instead of standing by and being uncomfortable speaking up, they should be uncomfortable about NOT speaking up” (Booth). Educating students on the definition of consent and guiding them to be productive bystanders is what colleges should to do tackle sexual assault on their campuses.

The faces flash by on the computer screen. The women on the screen are differents shapes, sizes, ages, and colors. However, there is one thing that all the women have in common: they have all been sexually assaulted on a college campus. More than one in five women were sexually assaulted on college campuses (Mott, Par. 1). It has been proven that programs in schools can help prevent these statistics from growing. However, more needs to be done to prevent sexual assault on educational facilities because the current programs are not fulfilling their purpose.

I interviewed two women and one man about the University of Iowa’s efforts with respect to sexual assault on campus. The first person I interviewed was a twenty-one year old woman from England named Gina. Michaela, an eighteen year old female from a small-town Southern Baptist high school, was the second female I interviewed. The only man I interviewed was Matt, a 19 year old male from a mid-sized town.

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According the American Civil Liberties Union, a staggering 95% of rapes on college campuses go unreported. The reason we see such low report rates is reflective upon the extreme need for on campus prevention and support systems. Since the Obama administration has come into office, President Obama and Vice President Biden have enacted a program known as the Not Alone Project. This program attempts to break the silence about sexual violence on college campuses and reach out to provide victims with the support they need by reaching out to other victims and giving them the support and avenues they need to seek justice, a sense of safe and well-being after going through the horrors of a sexual assault. This program also aims to spread awareness

As students graduate from high school they begin the journey of getting ready for the University they want to go to and get excited for the best time of their lives. As anybody on campus the last thing they want to be worrying about is whether they will be sexually assaulted or not. It is becoming clear that University's around the United States needs to broadcast what sexual assault is and why it isn't okay. In most cases, many campuses do not have an effective way to stop sexual assaults. Nobody wants to be a victim in a sexual assault case. Assuming nobody wants to be the attacker in a sexual assault case results to sexual assaults on campus must stop. University's must take the proper precautions to help stop campus assault. In the article, "Male students are victims of sexual assault, too" the author writes:

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Lafrance, Meika Loe, and Scott C Brown are all faculty members at Colgate University. Lafrance has a PhD in psychology and studies the effects sexual assault has on victims. Due to her experience Dr. Lafrance is able to properly assess each patient and or student that is faced with sexual assault. Meika Loe is a professor of Sociology and Women’s Studies at Colgate University. Scott C Brown is the Dean of the college in which he comes in contact with students on a daily basis. Together they were able to create an effective pilot program that different universities could also utilize. The first study was conducted in a small group and recorded to determine if it was effective or not. Each of the authors come in contact with a variety of students which makes them more than qualified to speak on the matter of sexual assault. Lafrance and her collogues expanded the knowledge of rape culture that students had. The “Yes Means Yes!” program was reported to be among their most successful due to its longevity and depth. I think this is a good article that showcases a program that was effective in educating students on how to prevent rape. The study was conducted from 2009 through 2012 while the article was published in 2012 making it fairly recent. Since this article was so recent it makes a lot of the information gathered still relevant and useful in accordance to the law and different school approaches to rape

In today’s society, so many people are continuing their education beyond high school. We realize that in order to make a decent living, a degree is most likely a requirement. In some cases even a bachelor’s degree is not enough to qualify for many positions. Nevertheless, thanks to technology, we now have the option to learn online or in a traditional classroom setting. There are very few differences between the two, and students need to understand that as much time and energy will need to be devoted to the online courses as on a campus. “A 2010 meta-analysis and review of online-learning studies concluded that online learning was as good as or slightly more effective than traditional face-to-face instruction” (Mendenhall, 2011).

Online college courses are almost becoming traditional for students. Some may perceive that a student does not receive an equal education when taking an online class. People tend to think that if a teacher is not directly giving the information about the subject, the course learning experience is different or unjust. This assumption is wrong according to the perception of many online course takers. Online college courses offer students the advantage to learn on their own time. The skills that a student learns in self-discipline, scheduling to complete graded assignments, and advantages learned with technology gives online classes equal education experience compared to classes on campus.

However, advocates of classroom learning believe the online method isolates the students from one another as well as their professor minimizing the overall value of taking the course. They also claim that students learn better when working together with their instructor and their fellow classmates. Students learn better when they are given the opportunity to ask questions, join in class discussions, and they move the process of learning forward through their participation. Face-to-face advocates firmly believe that this kind of interaction is not possible over the Internet; and for many types of education, e-learning will never meet the potential of live human interaction in the classroom. An article in the New York Times titled, “Second Thoughts on Online Education,” backs up the points made above. A recent research published by the National Bureau of Economic Research, comes to the conclusion; “A rush to online education

It seems that technology is growing, improving, and changing at an exponential rate. Technology now affects every part of our lives from the time we get up to the time we go to bed, and even as we sleep. One of the major areas that has been affected by technology is education. At one time, the only option for students to complete their education was in a traditional classroom setting. There has become a major need for non-traditional education because there has been a growth in the amount of non-traditional students that exist in our society. The advancement of technology has

Sexual assault and rape are on-going issues plaguing college campuses all across the nation. In part, I believe this is due to a lack of education on what sexual assault actually is. All too often, victims are leaving these situations feeling confused about something that they will forever deem "a weird night". It often isn't until much later that they realize what happened to them was a violation of their body and of their rights.