The second posting

This article, researched and written by Kyong-Jee Kim and Curtis J. Bonk, is a very informative and well written article. The study described throughout this article surveyed instructors and administrators in postsecondary institutions, mainly in the United States, to discuss future trends of online education. In particular, the study makes predictions regarding the changing roles of online instructors, student expectations and needs related to online learning, pedagogical innovation, and projected technology use in online courses. For this article the authors basically followed the scientific method, first by researching the information and then conducting a survey in order to collect more data and more viable results. The information was then compiled into different types of charts and graphs, each of these including a detailed explanation of the findings. The end of the article includes a conclusion and discussion section that discusses the results and gives the writers' final insight on the presented information.
Having taken an online course myself (Psychology 131) I would have to agree with the writers on this matter. I received an A for my online course, even though I spent most of the time doing the bare minimum that was required. I do beleive that something does need to be done in order for universities to continue attracting and educating distant and non-traditional students cause eventually someone will figure it out and certain universities will lose a viable and financially profitable plethora of students. I beleive that even though online learning is surely growing, it will soon become a phase that will die out with the return of students to actual classrooms with actual teachers.