Faculty Can't Do Online What They Can Do In The Classroom

But can online education ever be education of the very best sort? It’s here that the notion of students teaching teachers is illuminating. With every class we teach, we need to learn who the people in front of us are. We need to know where they are intellectually, who they are as people and what we can do to help them grow. Online education is a one-size-fits-all endeavor. It tends to be a monologue and not a real dialogue. The Internet teacher, even one who responds to students via e-mail, can never have the immediacy of contact that the teacher on the scene can. Read more at:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/20/opinion/the-trouble-with-online-education.html