Short-answer exam questions are based on class activities, including videotape and slide presentations. Gauchos and the Vanishing Frontier, rev. Same books, same instructor, new approach. Online students do much more writing than those in a classroom. They get more practice, instruction, feedback, and thus improvement in their writing.
Online students get to participate in electronic discussions on equal terms.
A few students tend to dominate classroom discussions. Online, everyone is equal, everyone is recognized, everyone can contribute. In fact, the WWW is a great equalizer. Many difficulties can be neutralized with computer and web-based technology so that students with impairments of sight, hearing, mobility, or other can participate just all fully online as anyone else. On the verge of the Knowledge Age, urban development specialists and campus planners are creating imaginative facilities for the new epoch.