One of the faculty members at the university teaches both online and face-to-face courses. We chatted the other day. She expressed that the online courses "force" students "speak up" in many ways. Students have to post their thought and reflections; on the other hand, students are not necessarily to "speak up" in the classroom. She siad that the interaction among the online classes students is much greater than the students in the face-to-face classes.
I think part of the reason behind that is... the 21st century students frequently use the social networks to communicate with others such as email, twitter, texting, and iphone. They probably communicate "better" with those electronic devices than talking in person. The social networks have been taking over so many ways of our communciation. They are not only affecting our daily lives, but also the way of our learning.
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