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This begs the question. IS there trouble with online learning or online students? Certainly there are factors that would cause someone to enroll in an online cl

by dfxm12 14y ago

This begs the question. IS there trouble with online learning or online students? Certainly there are factors that would cause someone to enroll in an online class outside of the fact that "it is online". Anecdotally, when I think back to my learning experience, I found that I had to be very self-motivated to learn in online classes and also take professors to task being available. This actually mirrored my experience with huge (100+ students) lecture hall style classes.

philwelch 14y ago
"This begs the question." No, it doesn't. http://begthequestion.info/ http://begthequestion.info/
- gojomo 14y ago
  The peculiar meaning of that euphemism in logic and philosophy is going to lose out to the way laypeople understand those words. The fuddy-duddies should pick a new less-confusing phrase to mean "assumes the conclusion". Might I suggest, "assumes the conclusion"?
  - chc 14y ago
    I prefer "is circular thinking." Most people have no difficulty understanding the idea of circular reasoning even if they have no idea what it means to beg the question.
  - philwelch 14y ago
    Educated people saved the word "ironic" once. "Begs the question" isn't dead yet.
- jacalata 14y ago
  Actually, it does. The article assumes that the reasons people did worse in these online courses is because of the set of students enrolling, when the question is 'does the set of students or the presentation of the course matter more'?