ONLINE EDUCATION HOW DOES ONLINE EDUCATION WORK?
The online education program for criminal justice begins with a week-long online orientation held at the beginning of your program. During orientation, students learn the technology they will be using, how to access their online courses, how to order books, polices/procedures, and student services. Students will begin interacting with each other, the CJ department, and the first instructor. The cohort is a group of 10 to 15 people who will travel through the program together. The members of the cohort will attend each class together. Other students do not typically drop in and out of individual courses–the members of the cohort start together and graduate together. Throughout the program, cohort members will interact with each other and the university in online discussion groups, e-mail and/or phone conferences. Online courses have the same objectives as traditional “on-campus” classes; online courses have the same requirements and usually the same assignments. It is only the teaching
