Can you do well in an online class without reading the textbook?
by Author on Wednesday, August 18th, 2010 | 4 Comments
I plan on studying the powerpoint presentation and learning objectives. This will be courses in business and accounting. I have never been a good reader except in psychology or english course materials.
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You can learn from your mistakes or you can possible learn by reading what others have learned. Technical work needs hands on and a knowledge of the basics, if you know these things then skip the textbook, if not read them you might learn something.
Most of the classes I took online didn’t even need a text book. The professors would cover just about everything in their lectures and everything else I could just Google. Before test time came around, I would copy and paste the lecture into a word document and then search for the key words from the test questions. It worked for me, though they weren’t business or accounting classes. Hopefully you’re taking these courses at an actual college, not something like University of Phoenix….
@ ctsmrvn: Berkeley offers online courses…do those count? The county college I go to offers core classes online. For classes like Math you go to campus to take the tests, so the professors can physically see what you can do.
Better to refer diff. Books also…to gain more knowledge.
All the best.
Your question, and the answers which followed it, demonstrate clearly an important matter. Thank you for asking your question, and thanks to those who answered. You have given a concrete example of why colleges, universities, and employers do not respect "online" education. You are correct that there is absolutely no way for the instructor to know whether you read the book or not. (To be fair, bad instructors in "brick and mortar" institutions also do not know whether their students read the book or not, but that’s another story.) Accounting is a skill, like riding a bicycle or swimming. It should be impossible for you to pass a class without being able to demonstrate that you can perform the activity. But here is a course in it "online." How does the instructor know what you can do? Can he look back at you through the computer screen? Unfortunately, I see a lot of people on "Answers" who are angry and upset because they have spent a fortune on "online" classes or degrees which nobody will accept. And now you and the others who answered have made it clear why.