Through my limited experience, I have found the most effective way to evaluate the effectiveness of a course, or an entire program for that matter, is to evaluate the quality of the graduate. This means that the course or program must first run its length, then the graduating student must be evaluated on their ability to meet the demands that are placed upon them once in the field. For example, the only way to know what the best way to build a car is would be to build the car, test it, evaluate the car's performance stated criteria, then build… >>>

First off, I am an instructor for Bryan University Online where we have LIVE lecture. In our live lectures, we the instructors have microphones and cameras as do the students and therefore we do in fact have real interaction. Essentially, our class sessions are held in a Skype-like environment, but with a fully interactive learning environment that includes a white board, application sharing abilities, web-touring abilities, presentation uploading abilities, and much more. So you could probably imagine my amusement with the portion of the presentation for this course that discussed the idea that face to face interaction does not take… >>>