<p>I have all my classes registered but I'm still stuck on what I'm going to do for math. Right now, I'm physically taking math at the college, but my teacher emails the test and it's open book and open note. I have been done very well in the class and understand his teaching methods. Sadly, he is not teaching the next level of math, so now I'm stuck on weather I should take math online or in person. If I take online, the test are proctored, no quizzes and it's open book. Also, I will be learning everything through a program they have set up. I have never taken math online, but have taken other classes online and enjoyed it. Now if I were take it in person, I would take the same teacher I took 4 years ago, who I failed. Now his methods are quizzes, math test and I know you write down your notes for the test on a 5x7 notecard front and back. The thing it, I'm worried I'm going to fail him again and not do well on the quizzes, etc. Now is open book the same as open notes? Is it different? Anyone taken math online? Any one taken the same teacher twice? Gahhh any advice would help!!</p>
<p>I took a community college calc course online during high school and I loved it! I found it to be a lot more organized than an “in-person” class. A lot of the math professors I’ve had tend to be kind of all over the place and have even left out key stuff to doing the homework, leaving all the students frustrated. Over even worse, the professor I have now who just lectures on theorems and refuses to show us how to work out the problems, making us to figure it out ourselves based on the theorems. </p>
<p>But with an online program, it is usually produced by a company who has edited and checked over to make sure their virtual prof (I’m assuming its video lectures) has covered everything for each individual lecture, so that they can package it all up and sell it to your college. It also makes it so much easier when you can go back to a specific point in a video lecture to review something if you get stuck. And I assume that with the online class, you can still go to your colleges math center if you need a live person’s help.</p>
<p>I took math online and I liked it, but some of the other people who aren’t as good in math were confused- they needed someone to actually teach the material to them, instead of teaching themselves.</p>
<p>Online courses are “self-taught” thus if your good at the subject and work well on your own, its likely a winner. If you need extra help, even minimally, I would suggest doing it in-class. At the community college I went to there was “hybrid” classes. Where its online and you meet as a class for an hour once a week to go over any questions.</p>