I have taken roughly half of my courses online in a masters program at bloomsburg university. Attendance was a required part of the grade, but even more so was journals, weekly homework, tests, group work and case studies.
What i am trying to say is, that attendance in these classes were almost 90% or higher for most students in the online chats. What was really significant was rather making the student work so hard, and give them extra work, so that incase some part was missed during the charts, summaries or power point slides, it was found and dealt with. Thereby, it almost forces a student to ask questions if they did not understand things.
I actually learned more in my online classes than i ever learned in my regular ones, as its pace, requirements and utter demand on oneself to perservere were so high. If offered for undergraduate students, i do not think that the program would have been as successful, as i remember my work ethic only a few years before taking these corses online.
http://www.bloomu.edu/ was the school, bloomsburg unversity of the stat univeristy schools in pa.
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I have taken roughly half of my courses online in a masters program at bloomsburg university. Attendance was a required part of the grade, but even more so was journals, weekly homework, tests, group work and case studies.
What i am trying to say is, that attendance in these classes were almost 90% or higher for most students in the online chats. What was really significant was rather making the student work so hard, and give them extra work, so that incase some part was missed during the charts, summaries or power point slides, it was found and dealt with. Thereby, it almost forces a student to ask questions if they did not understand things.
I actually learned more in my online classes than i ever learned in my regular ones, as its pace, requirements and utter demand on oneself to perservere were so high. If offered for undergraduate students, i do not think that the program would have been as successful, as i remember my work ethic only a few years before taking these corses online.
http://www.bloomu.edu/ was the school, bloomsburg unversity of the stat univeristy schools in pa.