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I would suggest the University of Illinois for online or distance education
simply because we
have wonderful faculty
get the same faculty
that you would get if you're coming here to face to face education
that you getting distance an online and you could take a look at our website and
see that we have experts in a vast variety of fields is just wonderful
resources at the University of Illinois
and as an online or distance education student you also have access to our
library which is the second largest academic library
in the United States you can't beat that. The University of Illinois twas founded as a
land grant college
that means that it has a public mission I don't think you find another college
that has
a better sense of what that public mission should be than the College
Education
we're dedicated to ensuring that the scholarship that we do the research,
the teaching,
the service all impact local communities in the state of Illinois
as well as the nation and globally but the point is that education is about
making connections it's about making connections with communities with state
policies with practices
with doing research that have an effect on how teaching and learning occurs
across the United States and the world
and so I think coming to the University of Illinois because of that land-grant
mission and because
the strength to the scholarship here is just a great choice
if you come to the University of Illinois College of Education
engage in one of our distance degrees or online degrees you not only have the
same professors that you would have if you are on campus but you have the
convenience and being able to either have them
come to an area that's close to where you live in the case a distance
education
or simply connect with them by our wonderful synchronous learning systems
in online education so the exact same faculty
with just the convenience of being able to be either close to home or right
in your home I think anyone can be a very good online learner the only thing
it takes is a willingness to take risks with
other strangers in a new venue and I think what I have found with most of my
students
is that they are all very eager to help and support one another especially the
new people who are coming into class
we have, we don't have a cohort model anymore so we don't have people
all coming in at once so you will have experienced students in class that will
be very glad to help you
get used to the online setting all of the professors have taught multiple times in an
online
environment and so know that there's a little bit of a startup time
and want to encourage people to use online education to the fullest extent
that they possibly can
and I think between that welcoming student body and the very committed
professors find it's very easy to get involved