What: So this is concerning something Professor Sorenson said in class today about the probability that all of us will someday teach an online course.
So What: I would be fine with teaching an online course or two in the future. However, I would have to think long and hard about teaching if all education transitioned into online courses. With online classes, the personal connections and relationships are somewhat lost over the internet. While there are some really cool things that can be done with online education, part of my desire to go into teaching is having that interactive-ness with students.
Now What: The deciding factor of this dilemma, should education one day totally transition into online learning/classes, would be for me to actually experience an online course. Perhaps it wouldn't be as distant as I imagine, and I'm sure that the classroom relationship expereince would depend on how I the teacher set up the online course. Overall, it will be interesting to see where online schooling goes in the future.
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You make a great point about teaching online classes and how the relationship would change between the students and the teacher and I do believe that are some ways to get around this in my opinion by creating podcasts and having web-cam classes. It will be interesting to be an online teacher.
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