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August 28, 2007, 11:11 AM ET
Out of Patience Online
Online courses are supposed to be a boon for commuters who don’t have time to trek to classrooms and for students living on the campus who’d like to work on their own time. But can colleges go too far in exchanging classrooms for computer screens?
LaGuan Fuse, a senior at the University of Missouri at St. Louis, certainly thinks so. In The Current, the campus newspaper, Mr. Fuse castigates the university for offering requisite courses for some degree programs only on the Internet. “This semester, 75 percent of my classes are online,” the student writes, “and 100 percent of that is not by choice.”
Mr. Fuse writes that he arrived at college “expecting lectures, late-night cram sessions, and running late for midterms,” and he argues that the glut of online courses is helping to rob him of that experience. Should colleges worry about alienating people like Mr. Fuse, or are students who demand bricks-and-mortar lecture sessions now a dwindling minority? —Brock Read
Categories: Student-Life, Teaching
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