Week 13 Distance Education and Virtual Schooling

During this week we learned what distance education and virtual schooling is. They both provide a way to still be educated even if you do not have time to attend classes at a university. Distance education is a certain class that you can take online while you are still attending other classes at a University. While virtual schooling is for people that do not have time to attend a university and they will take all of their classes online through a school that provides. These people that do virtual schooling have the same option to earn a degree of their choice. We also learned the pros and cons of these two ways of going to school and taking classes. The pros are that if is an easier way for someone to go to school if they do not have the time for example single moms and people in he military. The cons are that you can cheat on exams/quizzes and some places may not hire someone with an online degree.

This would be helpful in my major because if I do not have time to take a class or I have a conflict with one I can simply just take it online through a distance education course. I believe that this is a good options to a point. Teachers need to be able to do an internship in a classroom to see how they would interact with students and if you have to do an internship online that might defeat the purpose.


This is a commercial for Phoenix online schools. It shows people still being active in their everyday lives but being able to earn a degree at the same time. This is a good alternative to schooling and they show this in their video. They show a mother with a baby and others trying to raise a family still wanting to go to school and make a better life for them. Phoenix's commercial introduces people to a way to go to school and still live the life they have so they feel like they have the same chance to succeed as everyone else.