Thesis: This paper aims to analyse the arguments provided by the author in the article; How Technology Can Improve Online Learning by Robert Mendenhall. The article successfully outlines the imperatives and advantages of online teaching as compared to traditional teaching methodology. The arguments presented by the author are logical and devoid of fallacies that makes it immensely effective and rationale article on the topic. The articles basically stems its arguments in the form of comparison between the online and offline methods of teaching and how online teaching can actually make the entire process much more efficient, effective and far reachable to many more number to people. The best aspect of the article is that it emphasized on the output of a particular methodology of education to evaluate the quality of education and disconnected it from the mode or method of imparting the education (Mendenhall, 3).
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Most academicians argue that online education is one the means where in there is no mental connection between the instructor and the scholar and because of this the instructor cannot actually find if the student is attending the class and even if he does, is he attentive enough to actually get what the instructor is teaching. The author puts a very logical argument to refute this point. He says that the teacher cannot actually find if the student is attentive in any of setting and that includes classroom setting also. The instructor can only have a perception of finding out the mental state of the student. Most of instructor do not place high value on this accept of teaching and thus the classes have stopped to have any kind of attendance to find if the students have attended the classes (Mendenhall,
The article has focused on the output driven …show more content…
Most academicians argue that online education is one the means where in there is no mental connection between the instructor and the scholar and because of this the instructor cannot actually find if the student is attending the class and even if he does, is he attentive enough to actually get what the instructor is teaching. The author puts a very logical argument to refute this point. He says that the teacher cannot actually find if the student is attentive in any of setting and that includes classroom setting also. The instructor can only have a perception of finding out the mental state of the student. Most of instructor do not place high value on this accept of teaching and thus the classes have stopped to have any kind of attendance to find if the students have attended the classes (Mendenhall,