Faculty Thoughts about Online learning at UIS
- "Teaching
online closes the gap between teacher and student availability.
Students can ask a question anytime, and I can answer as soon as I
log on. Course tools like BlackBoard capture students' assignments
and keeps them available to them for review throughout the course.
Learning online develops writing skills and confidence. Our
imaginations are improved too. I enjoy teaching online so much I
even use the technology in campus classes."
Marcellus Leonard, Phd. , Professor, English
- "I have taught several undergraduate and graduate classes
online. My students are from all over Illinois and increasingly from
other states. Feedback from students has been very favorable and
appreciative, especially from women who are at home raising kids,
business people who travel a lot, and those who are busy and trying
to juggle jobs, family and school. I am particularly pleased that if
a course is well designed, it can actually be a better learning
experience (due to student-student and student-teacher interaction)
than on-campus classes. OTEL frees instructors like me to focus on
teaching rather than technical issues."
David O'Gorman, Phd., Professor, Business Administration
