If you want to get a good sense of some real reasons students take online courses, check out this posting from Darren Cannell’s relatively new Virtual Schools blog, “Teaching and Developing Online“.
Their student’s reasons are diverse, their goals are different…
(never realised some university students take high school courses online… )
And they are so real…
I don’t think I have read anything more motivating in terms of the work we do in a long time….
Enjoy!