As a teacher of adults, I am sensitive about the needs of adult learners and am committed to earning their trust, but it never arrives without aerobic and anaerobic applications of sincerity and effort. Admit it, teachers are a demanding audience. Online courses have changed my life. Greed abounds in online education. Hundreds of low-overhead online degree programs have popped into existence in the last five years.
Students are delighted to have easy access to cheaper courses and no commute.
Many are pleased that they will not have to fret over interpersonal conflicts with faculty. Instructors are delighted by the opportunities for extra income. When I entered the field of online education, I gained a flexible workweek, a minuscule commute, and flexibility to respond to the immediate needs of my family. I gained time to increase my technology skills. I gained freedom from the limitations of large class sizes and cumbersome university class scheduling and textbook-ordering requirements.