I wanted to answer a few questions in a comment regarding my last post: My Experience with Online Classes.

In your senior year, were the students you were interacting with mostly from the east coast, or did you have classmates e-connecting from all across the country? (Anyone from right on the UD campus? Anyone from overseas?)

The online courses I took my senior year were mostly filled by other college seniors in the immediate area who were trying to fit as many courses into their schedule as possible. Because the University of Delaware is not an online university, most of the students who enroll in online courses are either full time students looking to fill their schedule, or students participating in the university’s continuing education program.

My class “group members” were other students who lived on campus or nearby but worked during the day, played a sport, or just preferred to take online courses. Because this was a senior level course, the number of people who were eligible to enroll was limited to full time students who had completed the necessary prerequisites. Lower level or more general classes tend to attract a more geographically diverse group of students.

So, now, when you went to a testing center in DE, PA, MA, SC, or wherever you happened to be, were all those testing centers affiliated with the University of Delaware? If not, what was the connection among all these locations that allowed you to take your tests there?

We were able to choose where we wanted to take our exams from a list of various partner universities and testing centers around the world. There were many options to choose from.

Sounds like the professor of your last online class was a star at online teaching & learning to have created such a collaborative environment and to have made the collaboration such an important part of your grade. What did he or she think of how the class evolved?

A professor doing his or her part to teach is just as important and the students doing their part to learn. In this particular course I felt that the professor made it easy for students to learn the material by requiring them to participate and interact with others in the class. It was hard to slack off when you were required to submit assignments on a daily basis! I would assume that this professor was happy with the way the class evolved. All of the students that I know who took the class were definitely happy with their experience!