Étudier en ligne: profitable?

 Article intéressant sur une tendance marquée. Les cours offerts en ligne semblent présenter au moins deux irritants.

 "Stanford University ratcheted up interest in online education when a pair of celebrity professors attracted more than 150,000 students from around the world to a noncredit, open enrollment course on artificial intelligence. This development, though, says very little about what role online courses could have as part of standard college instruction. College administrators who dream of emulating this strategy for classes like freshman English would be irresponsible not to consider two serious issues.

 First, student attrition rates — around 90 percent for some huge online courses — appear to be a problem even in small-scale online courses when compared with traditional face-to-face classes. Second, courses delivered solely online may be fine for highly skilled, highly motivated people, but they are inappropriate for struggling students who make up a significant portion of college enrollment and who need close contact with instructors to succeed.

L'article au complet:
 http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/19/opinion/the-trouble-with-online-college.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=edit_th_20130219