Benefits of Online Courses
Why Online?
- Flexibility - Online courses offer students the chance to participate in classes on their own schedule. You may connect from your home or office, reducing the amount of time you spend traveling.
- Choice - Offering online courses allows us to give you more choices. For instance, a course may not be able to attract enough students at any one location to offer it, but can when students from all those locations are added together.
- Access - Online courses allow us to serve students who live too far away to attend face to face courses. It also offers all our students the opportunity to be taught by excellent instructors whose location or schedules preclude attendence at local weekly class meetings.
- Realize the benefits of the web - The unique nature of the web, including hypertext and multimedia, offer new ways of presenting course material and allowing students to interact with it that can improve student understanding.
How Are The Courses Delivered?
- Web Delivered - Courses are taught completely over the internet and primarily through a website.
- Regular Term - Online courses follow the normal academic schedule for each term. They are not self paced. All registered students proceed through the course as a group.
- Asynchronous - While students proceed through the course as a group, participation requirements are almost entirely asynchronous. Any synchronous activities will be optional, and students who can not attend at a particular time will be able to view the interactions at a later date.
- Collaborative - Students will communicate online with their instructor and each other, in some cases working in teams on group projects. The courses are designed to foster active and collaborative learning and use an interactive style of problem solving that improves student understanding and retention.
- Time Requirements - The workload in online courses is comparable to courses that meet face to face. The participation requirements, however, are often distributed more evenly throughout the week.
- Initial Instructions - Login IDs and initial participation instructions will be delivered to students by email prior to the first day of the term. For this reason, it is important that students supply a current email address when registering for online courses.
- Samples Course - Coming Soon
Things To Know When Considering Online Courses.
- Online Learning Readiness Assessment - Coming Soon
- Online Orientation - Students taking their first online course from EPP are required to participate in an orientation that takes place online during the week before the term begins. The goal of the orientation is to make students successful in the online environment. Students get instruction and practice in the software used to deliver the courses and the opportunity to iron out any technical difficulties before a grade is on the line.
- Early Registration - Students register for online courses exactly as they do for face to face courses, with one caveat. In order to ensure timely entry into the online course and to allow time for the mandatory orientation, students must register earlier; by a week and a half before the term for new and first time online students and by a week before the beginning of the term for returning online students. See the Academic and Registration Calendar for exact dates for each term. **Please supply a current email address when registering for online courses.**
- Technical Requirements - Students must have a working email address and reliable and easily accessible internet access in order to complete course work successfully. There may be additional technical requirements for some courses, such as specific software or access to a scanner. These requirements will be detailed in the introductory email message.
Additional Information
For additional information, please see the Online Course Policy section of the catalog. You may also contact us at epponline@jhu.edu or call 410.516.8758.