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Monday, December 10, 2007
Online learning experience suits some students better than sitting in class - David steindorf, Times Union
I applaud the Times Union's Dec. 2 editorial on the value of an online college education. The point of the editorial was, it seems to me, that establishing universally accepted criteria for evaluating the various online degree programs would greatly assist in debunking the myth that "a degree earned in the virtual world is inferior to a sheepskin obtained in the real one." I couldn't agree more and, in fact, would humbly suggest that, in certain respects, an online academic experience can, for many individuals, be superior to classroom learning. As someone who holds a part-time faculty position at SUNY's Empire State College in its Distance Learning Program, I know from firsthand experience that many students excel in virtual academe who had previously struggled in a traditional college setting.
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