Evaluation of Will the Web Kill Colleges
Evaluation of Zephyr Teachout's Article “Will the Web Kill Colleges?”
The article brings to some interesting views on the futures of colleges and the experience that goes along with that first important step into adulthood. He brings some serious points to the argument. First, the traditional college experience versus an online college experience. Next, the quality of the online course information, as well as, having a tenured professor or an average non-degreed person teaching/monitoring a course. Then, he asks the question “Will employers take a person with an online degree just as serious as a traditional means degree?” Will they hold the same water so to speak? And finally, he weighs the pros and cons of the cost of attendance, the ability of non-traditional students to get a degree in their own time when they could not before. There are two of these issues that stand out to me as an online student, the cost and the ease of going back to school. Teachout (pg. 92) states that a recent survey suggests that college cost is one of the top factors determining which schools students choose to attend. For me this was true, I chose an online college because I had young children, a full-time job, and a worsening disability that prevented me from going to a traditional campus for classes. One does have to wonder about the future of online schools as it is concerns the qualifications of the instructors, how employers will trust or honor an online degree, and the overall experience of a traditional campus. To all these issues I would have to agree with Teachout on. I think the only area where this argument does not work is in two areas. First, the cost of private online colleges is much
higher than local traditional colleges. Yes, with private online schools you get enough financial aid to cover tuition, books, and only some living expenses. They do not give you enough to live on if you do not work full-time. The other issue is there are some
The article brings to some interesting views on the futures of colleges and the experience that goes along with that first important step into adulthood. He brings some serious points to the argument. First, the traditional college experience versus an online college experience. Next, the quality of the online course information, as well as, having a tenured professor or an average non-degreed person teaching/monitoring a course. Then, he asks the question “Will employers take a person with an online degree just as serious as a traditional means degree?” Will they hold the same water so to speak? And finally, he weighs the pros and cons of the cost of attendance, the ability of non-traditional students to get a degree in their own time when they could not before. There are two of these issues that stand out to me as an online student, the cost and the ease of going back to school. Teachout (pg. 92) states that a recent survey suggests that college cost is one of the top factors determining which schools students choose to attend. For me this was true, I chose an online college because I had young children, a full-time job, and a worsening disability that prevented me from going to a traditional campus for classes. One does have to wonder about the future of online schools as it is concerns the qualifications of the instructors, how employers will trust or honor an online degree, and the overall experience of a traditional campus. To all these issues I would have to agree with Teachout on. I think the only area where this argument does not work is in two areas. First, the cost of private online colleges is much
higher than local traditional colleges. Yes, with private online schools you get enough financial aid to cover tuition, books, and only some living expenses. They do not give you enough to live on if you do not work full-time. The other issue is there are some
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