Today’s College Student
Xinyu Zhang
Mr. Horner
ENGL 1301. 321
Feb, 21, 2013
Today’s college student
College students have changed a lot over the past decade, the most obvious change is that teaching equipments of college, it has changed the way of students learn. The multi-media education makes college curriculum schedule flexible, thus the age distributions of college students become older. However the new problem is the degree credential seem to be rapidly losing their value.
First of all, it is an undeniable fact that upgrades of teaching equipments has make learning more easily and convenient, the advantage is obvious. For instance, right now I am writing my paper using computer, in this way I can edit the paper as what I want, like change the spacing between lines, modify some incorrect words and add or delete words. This is beyond writing by hand. Moreover, with the development of network and multimedia technology, the online curriculum has become the most important part of college education because of flexibility, whenever and wherever student can study if they want to, part time students no longer constrained by place and time. However, it also caused students to rely on the Internet, the use Google instead of the traditional library.
Because of the new way of college education, the age distribution of college students was changed to older, so how did it happen? As the rapid development and popularization of network education and flexible college curriculum schedule, those are providing opportunities for some people who don’t have adequate time to study in college which they have a lot of housework burden and busy jobs, usually this group composed by people who over 30 years old. Moreover the weak economic and fierce social competition is one of the reason which pushed people come back to college; this is the second reason which the age distribution of college students is so extensive, so today’s students in college usually with different age groups from nineteen who just
Mr. Horner
ENGL 1301. 321
Feb, 21, 2013
Today’s college student
College students have changed a lot over the past decade, the most obvious change is that teaching equipments of college, it has changed the way of students learn. The multi-media education makes college curriculum schedule flexible, thus the age distributions of college students become older. However the new problem is the degree credential seem to be rapidly losing their value.
First of all, it is an undeniable fact that upgrades of teaching equipments has make learning more easily and convenient, the advantage is obvious. For instance, right now I am writing my paper using computer, in this way I can edit the paper as what I want, like change the spacing between lines, modify some incorrect words and add or delete words. This is beyond writing by hand. Moreover, with the development of network and multimedia technology, the online curriculum has become the most important part of college education because of flexibility, whenever and wherever student can study if they want to, part time students no longer constrained by place and time. However, it also caused students to rely on the Internet, the use Google instead of the traditional library.
Because of the new way of college education, the age distribution of college students was changed to older, so how did it happen? As the rapid development and popularization of network education and flexible college curriculum schedule, those are providing opportunities for some people who don’t have adequate time to study in college which they have a lot of housework burden and busy jobs, usually this group composed by people who over 30 years old. Moreover the weak economic and fierce social competition is one of the reason which pushed people come back to college; this is the second reason which the age distribution of college students is so extensive, so today’s students in college usually with different age groups from nineteen who just