Students are far more confident in posing questions and completing assignments. Students MUST participate, so it is much less likely that a few outspoken students will dominate the class. Distance Education on the Internet, then, is the technology of this millennium. As population centers grow in size and congestion prevails, centralized education becomes impractical. Even now, state-funded universities are bursting at the seams.
Classes are huge and impersonal.
Given these conditions, which are likely to become more severe, Distance Education offers an alternative which takes advantage of the world wide connectivity of the Internet, and is thus the forefront of Florida Tech's educational delivery system for the future. Copyright 1997-2000, Florida Tech, School of Extended Graduate Studies. All rights reserved.