Online education vs real education. Online education could be the tool of the future to provide the young and the old with schooling and instruction. It provides a cheaper way of teaching

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        One hundred years ago, eight and a half per cent of American seventeen-year-olds had a high-school degree, and two per cent of twenty-three-year-olds had a college degree. Now, on any given weekday morning,  there are about fifty million Americans, about a sixth of the population, sitting under the roof of a public-school building, and twenty million more are students or on the faculty or the staff of an institution of higher learning (Hymen and Jacobs). Education is nowhere mentioned in the Constitution; the creation of the world’s first system of universal public education—from kindergarten through high school—and of mass higher education is one of the great achievements of American democracy. The significance placed on a good education not only puts it higher in demand, it also makes it easier to acquire. With motivation, a good education is easy to get in America.

        First, online learning is one of the newest and fastest moving methods of education; more and more students are choosing to getting their degree this way instead of going to a land college, mostly due to the convenience of the schedule, where before a full time employee did not have time to go to a land college. Now, students are finding out that they can get an education through the online environment, so they are utilizing this alternative way of achieving their higher education (Hymen and Jacobs). Yet, the online environment is unlike the land college, because there is no face to face contact, so, for example, the University of Phoenix tries to make the experience as realistic as it can by 1) providing a resource for the students to go to for their writing projects, 2) designing classes that simulate real life learning situations where students become part of a learning team, 3) and focus on problem based learning.

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Online education could be the tool of the future to provide the young and the old with schooling and instruction. It provides a cheaper way of teaching while still giving the student the material necessary for the class (Clark). Students learn responsibility through online education and it gives them a reason to work hard during the class. Overall, online classes will help provide many students with a respectable, affordable education they need.

        Education has many levels. In order to get a good education, one must pass all of the levels. For some, graduation from high school marks the end ...

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