One thing that could help make this course content relevant to many of us, is to have a seperate section relating to and written by someone that teaches inner city students. I teach in a technical scholl and it is a completely different world teaching "College students" with a 2nd or 3rd grade reading level, no math skills, and proper grammer is not even a vague concept. Most of these students are actually smart (especially street smart) but have no academic skills of any kind. You cannot lower your expectations but the instuctional style is not the same as a regular college or high school. While the basic concepts of teaching remain the same, the delivery is not.

Especially since many of these students are in the school for the stipend from the student loan, to live off of it, not to learn. Once the stipend goes, so do many of the students. Many of the others are here because welfare says they have to go to school, but does not state they have to graduate. They go from course to course, school to school, just to continue the welfare. In most of my classes, if 20% are actually there to learn and improve, I consider myself lucky.

We need online courses geared to this kind of environment.