The Deakin University
This Universities main focus is online learning. However, it does allow students to choose whether they prefer online lectures or face to face lectures. I think this is a good way to allow students to choose what they would rather do. At the age of University you are able to make up your own decisions about how is the best way to learn. You are doing this choice for the benefit of yourself and i believe this is a good thing. There are a variety of courses at the Unviersity from a Bachelor in film and video, to a Bachelor in Property and Real estate. This allows a variety of choices which again, I feel is a good thing. Although I do believe that it may be difficult to understand topics that are difficult, simply by watching a screen and learning interactively. I think it is important to be able to communicate with a teacher face to face.
It allows one on one time and it is important to see facial expressions and emotion in the way people answer a specific question. This makes the way you decode a question completley different.
The university says that it 'prepares graduates to be confident and competent using online technologies and in online environments'. I agree that in this day and age, it is important to be up to date with the rapid changes of technology.
What does everyone else think?
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And how are you finding your first experience of learning online? I take your point about making up your own mind at university age, but many people will not have had any experiences of learning on line in England. At Deakin, of course many students will have experienced distance learning previously due to the nature of the spread of population in Australia.
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