Online Learning Technology - How did it work?

Posted by Jennifer Buchholz on February 12th, 2009

Throughout these years at Capella, they have changed online learning platforms numerous times, and it’s hard to remember where it all started.

Overall, the courses used either a standard or proprietory online course management system. The common areas are announcements, materials, discussions, and other topical sections. Each course had varying requirements for frequency of logging in, posting, answering questions, responding to classmates and the instructor, etc.

As long as we had access to the internet, it was basically easy to attend class, but back in the days of dial-up, some of the technology took longer to load and access. Additionally, not every system was consistently reliable - there are still many times when I go to log into class and find that I cannot access the classroom. That is a major challenge for people who are trying to complete classes during our limited time available.

It was helpful that most of the online learning platforms were intuitive. It was very easy to navigate through the learning systems, and I always found technical support to be very helpful as well.