Saving Time On-Line

by Evelyn Beck Does teaching on-line take more time than teaching a face-to- face class? “Yes, it certainly does,” says Thomas Nolan, who teaches on-line nursing courses and directs The Center for Teaching and Professional Development at Sonoma State University in Rohnert Park, Calif. “It’s a heck of a lot more labor intensive.” He cites an average of 300 hours to transform a class from a face-to-face to an on-line environment and then the tremendous volume of emails once class starts. “In a face-to-face class, if you know the material fairly well, you could go from one week to the next without opening the book,” he […]