I remember my senior year of college in computer science there were some scheduling conflicts with what they offered in my last year... so I had to take my last few required classes in online versions [while sitting there on campus]. I was actually pretty pissed how the online classes cost me MORE money than the in person classes. Not cause they were using some special software I had to pay for or anything... just flat tuition cost increase for it. It wasn't drastically higher but one or two hundred bucks more :P
Most of these classes the teacher basically didn't even teach and I just had to read through the textbook myself and submit the assignments they would grade.
For example, I had to take a cartography class for GIS and the entire class was just a list of assignment questions and the chapters they were in. No video lecture, no anything.
Now, I did have a few online classes where the teachers put a lot of work into it but still the end user experience was if anything that it should have been a discount to me for the online version I feel. It may very well cost them more, but it simply is an inferior product that I was required to use because they didn't offer all my classes each year [and there was no way for me or my advisor to even know that ahead of time to plan so well in advance]
I remember my senior year of college in computer science there were some scheduling conflicts with what they offered in my last year... so I had to take my last few required classes in online versions [while sitting there on campus]. I was actually pretty pissed how the online classes cost me MORE money than the in person classes. Not cause they were using some special software I had to pay for or anything... just flat tuition cost increase for it. It wasn't drastically higher but one or two hundred bucks more :P
Most of these classes the teacher basically didn't even teach and I just had to read through the textbook myself and submit the assignments they would grade.
For example, I had to take a cartography class for GIS and the entire class was just a list of assignment questions and the chapters they were in. No video lecture, no anything.
Now, I did have a few online classes where the teachers put a lot of work into it but still the end user experience was if anything that it should have been a discount to me for the online version I feel. It may very well cost them more, but it simply is an inferior product that I was required to use because they didn't offer all my classes each year [and there was no way for me or my advisor to even know that ahead of time to plan so well in advance]