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15.5.7:-) Anthony
From my own personal experience as an undergraduate at UW-Stout, I learned that many of the foreign
students who were my on-campus classmates chose to
attend an American university so that they could improve their spoken English skills. However, with
distance education, all of the dialogue occurs "online"; thereby
hindering the opportunity for these foreign students to improve their English speaking skills.
So? Granted, I can see the benefit of doing so but what does that have to do with whether or not online
is superior or inferior to offline? Being able to improve spoken
language skills are generally not the goal of any course of instruction that doesn't deal directly with
that skill.
Also, I do not believe that it's a matter of one winning over the other. As I postulated previously
the ability to tailor learning to the student's preferred mode should be the
primary focus. F2F for those who prefer that and online for those who prefer that.
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