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Originally Posted by phenomshel
Online college classes that were adapted very poorly from "live" classes. My Speech class this semester is driving me crazy. It's an online branch of the school, for heaven's sake. How the heck am I supposed to know the demographics and extrapolate how that is going to affect them as an audience? Online students come from all walks of life, are all ages, cultural backgrounds, etc.
There are all sorts of scenarios we're supposed to discuss about how we'd react in different classroom situations if we were giving a speech. I haven't been in a classroom in 25 years! Nor do I want to be, that was the main attraction of online classes for me in the first place. *Bangs head on desk*.....
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I've been thinking about taking online courses to get my Masters in Education (to get recertified every 5 years, I have to take a minimum of 6 credit hours or 180 points). I wondered how they would play out and would love to get an update from you as you go along.
When it came to writing papers, I told my daughter, who just received her BA in Global Affairs, to use her background knowledge and observations of human behaviour for guidance, but at the bottom line to just make something up!
Basically, that's what we tell young writers when they are faced with at times bizarre writing prompts on standardized tests. It seems to have worked since she did graduate with a 3.0 average.
