Virtual Campus

The University of Illinois put together a program designed to get students who have trouble attending regular classes and have them attend via the internet. The end result was the Global Campus, a $3 million program which offers coursework through the Internet instead of in person. The University is now using it to offer several degree plans but the problem is there is only a total of 10 students. The university is denying accusations saying that it’s too soon to draw any conclusions about the three-month program since it won’t be promote until September. Global Campus is perhaps the first major, accredited institution to offer full Bachelor's and Master's degrees online, rather than simply offering prerecorded videos and audio of old classes to the public. More casual students looking to further their education without the pressures of earning grades can look to some of the other highly-touted online programs. I really dislike the idea of an Online Institution. I don’t think the full accreditation of a degree should be viable over the internet. The students are not learning the full material and the help of a teacher and resources are simply not available to the students in my opinion. I think this is a just a way for the university to collect more money from students. The applicants to these online courses seem highly unmotivated so it is likely the university will collect their cheques with the hope that they don’t succeed with the online courses. I feel that attending regular classes should be the only means of full Bachelor Degrees and Master’s degrees throughout the country.