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Learning: Some students miss dynamic of classroom ■ Continued from Page 1A people who would otherwise not get it, whether it be for geograph ic or other reasons. “The prime users of this ser vice are expected to be high school students who Finish their high school graduation require ments and want to get a jump start on college,” said Pauline Austin, assistant director for me dia relations at the University. Malissa Bare, a senior at Glen dale High School in Southern Oregon, is one of those students. She completed her graduation re quirements and is now earning college credit. She is taking Political Science 204 and Geology 306 this term, and she took Political Science 201 and Economics 201 during winter term. She said the dis tance education program was a great option for her. “It’s cheaper for me to take these classes now because I don’t have to worry about living ex penses and also because I want to be able to double major in four full-time years,” Bare said. But high school students are not the only ones signing up for these classes. Thomas Graven, a 49-year-old environmental stud ies major, took Physics 162, one of the web-based classes, winter term. He said he took the class for several reasons. First, he needed physics credit for his ma jor, and it was not available at the community college where he be gan his lower division classwork. Second, he said he needed flexi bility with his schedule because he commutes from the coast and can only come to Eugene twice a week because of his job. Howev er, he said he did miss the dy namic of a classroom. “Discussion, lecture, films, etc., are really the heart of educa tion,” Gravon said. “It’s a social experience, and that is just miss ing in independent study.” Tim Badrick, a 34-year-old general science major, said the program’s flexibility will likely enable him to complete his de gree from his home. “All I need to complete my de gree is to raise my GPA,” he said. “I had no plans to drop my busy life and move to Eugene for a term or two to complete a degree that is not currently needed pro fessionally. This program is wonderful opportunity.” Flexibility in scheduling has lured many on-campus students to the distance education pro gram. Sara Deane, a senior majoring in journalism, said the opportu nity to take Economics 201 over the web was a major benefit for her. “I can fit in study time be tween studying from my other classes and working on my hon ors college thesis,” she said. “I’d rather study on my own time in the comfort of my own home.” Sophomore Christopher Geib, who is taking Political Science 201 on-line this term, agreed the flexibility was a bonus. “It works out for me because I would rather do my studying in the Cascades next to a river than in some classroom in Eugene,” he said. Natalie Montgomery, a Univer sity student who is working at a science museum in London on an internship, said she would have been the first student over (CAll I need to complete my degree is to raise my GPA,” he said. “I had no plans to drop my busy life and move to Eugene for a term or two to complete a degree that is not currently needed professionally. This program is wonderful opportunity. ?? Tim Badrick University student seas to take the class, “but unfor tunately they forgot to send me the textbook, so I had to drop the class,” she said. Barring that, she said, “Everyone in the program was really nice and supportive. They really want these classes to work out.” Freshman Kameron Cole cited the technological aspects as a benefit to the distance education classes. “To compete in the next mil lennium, people are going to have to know how to do more than check their e-mail,” she said. “This class eases you into that.” Freshman David Koleno said he found the tests in his Econom ics 201 class to be a little bit on the difficult side “because eco nomics involves a lot of math that is different from the math in normal math classes. Without a teacher to work through a couple of problems, the math is very hard to learn on your own.” Though many on-campus stu dents are taking advantage of the distance education program, the goal is to involve more off-cam pus students, Lind said. “The expectation was to ven ture into the distance educa tion/virtual university arena, try out various teaching/testing models and technology and get some experience working with students at a distance,” he said. As for the future of the dis tance education program, Gray said, “We don’t know for sure where it’s going to go, but we’re doing the research to figure it out.” CONSUMER RIGHTS An informative course designed for members of the community as well as law students. The course will provide an overview of consumer rights and remedies in the marketplace. Topics include consumer fraud and scams, acquisition of credit, debt collection, consumer bankruptcy, and tenant rights under residential leases. 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