I'm glad that UoPeople takes care to make sure that "All mandatory course material is text based with no audio or video." I still remember what a huge pain it was to watch a required video for an online course I took about a decade ago. The video was massive and my campus owned apartment only had dial-up. It was days of fighting with Real **BUFFERING** Player just to watch an hour long video. I think a whole 1 quiz question ended up being based on the video. Text based instruction can be just as, if not more, pedagogically sound than some fancy audio/video/flash animated learning objects.
I'm rather curious as how UoPeople students with slower connections like working with the University's Moodle based courses. I know that when I use my "two cans & a string" internet connection, I'm waiting forever for any CMS or LMS based website to even load. I'll test out http://demo.moodle.net over dial-up later, but that isn't the same thing as a real, life site with large amounts of content.
(As for why I took an online class while living on campus... It was a required class that was only offered online or hybrid that semester. Extra bonus WTF!? points for being an introductory "how to use computers" class that, if you could actually take the class online, you didn't need to learn the material.)
I'm glad that UoPeople takes care to make sure that "All mandatory course material is text based with no audio or video." I still remember what a huge pain it was to watch a required video for an online course I took about a decade ago. The video was massive and my campus owned apartment only had dial-up. It was days of fighting with Real **BUFFERING** Player just to watch an hour long video. I think a whole 1 quiz question ended up being based on the video. Text based instruction can be just as, if not more, pedagogically sound than some fancy audio/video/flash animated learning objects.
I'm rather curious as how UoPeople students with slower connections like working with the University's Moodle based courses. I know that when I use my "two cans & a string" internet connection, I'm waiting forever for any CMS or LMS based website to even load. I'll test out http://demo.moodle.net over dial-up later, but that isn't the same thing as a real, life site with large amounts of content.
(As for why I took an online class while living on campus... It was a required class that was only offered online or hybrid that semester. Extra bonus WTF!? points for being an introductory "how to use computers" class that, if you could actually take the class online, you didn't need to learn the material.)