Dismissal of online learning still a thing?

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However, driving to a campus downtown, dealing with parking, trekking across campus to sit in a lecture hall of 500 people to listen to a lecture on theory(accompanied by a PowerPoint), see if they take attendance, and hand in a paper assignment is a complete waste of time and money nowadays.

Or, like the medical school I am familiar with, once you get in there, your lecturer is on a different continent and interacting with you via teleconferencing equipment. HUGE, multiple giant screens. But you have to scan your card in the classroom so they can monitor attendance. (shrugs)

Take a look at the post from eriehiker you responded to...

Ok. I don't see it.

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Things like surgery sims, IVs, taking blood, complex lab work, CPR, first aid, bandaging, stitching, anything that really requires hands-on to be competent should be hands-on so those things I'm in favor of staying as in-person activities.

I do find it scary that there are CPR and first aid programs that are entirely online. That just doesn't sound good at all to me.

I was actually going to make that point. I've been taking and teaching CPR/1st Aid since the 70's.

If a person can learn it on their own, or they learn better via a monitor... who am I to say? The issue I see with totally on-line certifications in those areas are that when I see the AHA/ARC card, I sort of can believe they've performed in front of a person to a standard. When I went through whoever I went through for the online only stuff... I watched videos, read text and took tests. No one observed me perform to a standard.

IF they can address that somehow, I got no problem with it. It's a brave new world digitally