The Top Ten Reasons
NOT to teach Online

(Frequently Asked Questions and Answers for Beginners)

(click on each Reason to read more)

  1. "Students don't really learn in those classes."

  2. “I like to have more contact with my students. I need to see their faces and look in their eyes.”

  3. “Don’t those classes take a lot of time?”

  4. "I don't know how to set up such a class."

  5. "I'm not very good with computers."

  6. “What about intellectual property? I don’t want my lectures to belong to someone else!”

  7. “I don’t want to be replaced by a machine!”

  8. “What about the digital divide? Most of our students don’t even have computers at home."

  9. “My course depends on discussion and interaction, and of course you can’t have that online.”

  10. “I just don’t think it’s right for me.”