online education vs traditional education

Hello peole! What up?

Today is a beautiful day, and do you want to know why? Well, because I finished my exams and I'm totally free now... For a while at least... :p
Now while catching up with some of my friends for an after-exam pary, one one of them was telling me he wanted to do some kind online studying through an internet university... He told me lots of things about it, but in the end didn't succeed in convincing me...

For those of you who don't really know what I'm talking about, you've probably seen some ads on the internet featuring messages like: "online criminal justice degree", "accredited online university" and "university online college"... Now, they claim they can teach you a thing like law, or finance, through the power of the internet ...And even though I don't doubt the fact that you can study using pc files, and that it would be quite handy if you could arrange your lessons like you want it, I still have some serious doubts left about the online education system...

First of all, think about of what value an online university degree is to our society? Technically it should be the same, but come on, I really think that a manager who is hiring lawyers for instance, is more tended to pick an old school university one, instead of an internet trained one... And come on, when you look at it, who would want to exchange a traditional university school to a course using your pc... University life is a wonderful period, and you'd have to be either crazy or socially awkward if you'd want to miss it.

Another point is that, if the online college scene does prove to work, how can you pick the good ones from the phonies? Because technically every website with a nice layout could claim they are a 5 star degree online university who teach medicine, laws, social rights and all online; while they end up being a scam... I mean, if you go to a normal traditional university, you know that the professor who is teaching you, actually has a degree for it, and that what you are studying, will certainly give you a degree (if you pass that it)...

Third thing that I have a problem about is that if you start studying online, how that you are going to get practical skills.
Why I come up with this is because I have seen ads like "online nursing education" and such, but a lot of studies like nurses education or medical education need the skills which are involved... If a nurse know every theoretical thing about treating a patients wound, but has never done it before, it might cause big troubles... So you'd have to fix that problem by having more internships; but in the end, wouldn't that be like going to a normal university in the first place? In the end all studies need experience, even language studies, for which you see a lot of online courses, need practical experience, which you can only obtain through talking... Now sure you can use a webcam for that, but again, if you need to make "appointments" with students or teachers to talk to you through the internet, wouldn't that be more of a hassle than just going to a traditional university and just do ever thing there...

In the end in the battle of online education vs traditional education, the traditional wins by landslide... It's certain that the material is correct and adjusted for your course, it is more trustworthy, and there are things which just aren't possible to teach through an online university system, especially things nurses master educations...
But that is my opinion, what is yours? Leave me a quicky to let me know!

See you later!