Southeast Online courses are the same courses that are taught in the face-to-face (F2F) classroom.  They are simply sections of the course taught in the online environment, i.e. on the Web.  For the most part, the content and materials are the same as you would get in the F2F class.  The delivery is different.  An online instructor obviously can not lecture as they might in an F2F class.  Class material is delivered via text or multimedia.  Typically, material in an online class will be reading text on the class Web pages.  Supplementing that may be assigned reading from the class textbook, links to other Web sites, images, animations, simulations, interactive modules, PowerPoint presentations, audio, or streamed voice-over images or videos.  Assignments may be in the form of filling in forms, readings, email messages or attachments, discussions, quizzes, exams, materials uploaded to the Web site, or other as determined by the instructor. 

Your role as a student is different.  In an F2F course, you go to class at a specific time. The instructor facilitates your learning by lecturing, leading discussions, using a PowerPoint, etc.  The instructor is in charge of the pace and timing.  In an online course you as a student take on a more active role in your learning.  An online course is much more student-centered; the instructor is more of a facilitator of learning than directly in charge as he/she is in the F2F classroom.  This has its pros and cons.  Since the material is in written form and on the Web site, you can go through it at your own pace, and can go back over it.  An online course favors different learning styles than an F2F course.  Obviously visual learning is supported very well by an online course.  Oral learners may not benefit as much by an online course. 

Importantly, since an online course does allow you to work at your own pace, you are in charge of when, where, and how fast.  As an online student, you need to be self-motivated and disciplined.  You will need to set a schedule for yourself to login and complete work by the deadlines.  Any help you will need you will need to seek from your instructor by email, phone or other methods as determined by your instructor.  It is very easy to let the class get ahead of you thus ending up with you in the position of trying to play catch-up.  If you keep up with all assignments and deadlines, a Southeast Online course should be as great an experience and of equal quality as an F2F course.

Online courses provide a great alternative to education at Southeast Missouri State.  An online class cal allow you to take the same quality course taught on campus from a distance.  An online courses allows for you to attend a course without setting foot on the Southeast campus.  An online course can also allow you take a class at a convenient time.  This can allow you to take a class not otherwise possible because of scheduling conflicts.  A Southeast Online course shows in transcripts the same as an F2F course.  In fact, nothing in your records distinguishes an online course from an F2F course.