Given the demands on students’ time and the pressure to increase credit accumulation, online education will certainly play a growing role in undergraduate as well as graduate and professional education. Many of those classes will offer a pale imitation of a genuine education, consisting of little more than video clips, digitized PowerPoint slides, and discussion boards. These are correspondence courses for the digital age.
But it is possible to offer a robust, engaging, highly interactive online instruction, as long as cost savings don’t represent our highest priority.
