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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.”
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