Better than Free Beer? – Online Education
In this Chronicle of Higher Education commentary, Margaret Brooks claims that online courses are better than free beer. Actually, she is responding to a colleague who does not like online courses who stated that it was wrong to offer online courses just because students demand them because “students demand free beer, too; that does not mean we should give it to them.”
What Brooks actually does is to lay out some excellent reasons why online courses should be offered by colleges. Among those reasons are getting students more engaged in their courses, allowing for different learning styles, making college more accessible and more affordable, and more.
She wrote an interesting commentary. And, she just may be right that online courses might be preferred over free beer. I had just never thought about it quite like that before.
Your thoughts? Please feel free to leave a comment.
Mike
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