Tag: Online Courses
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People struggle to stay safe during corona
By Tara RinasPulse Staff Reporter The coronavirus, also known as COVID-19, has caused many job losses, financial problems and 302,322 deaths worldwide, including 86,599 in the United States and 1,232 in Texas as of May 14, 2020. The current virus pandemic has impacted me personally in more ways than one. My 87-year-old grandparents reside in…
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Campus empty in the afternoons and on Fridays
By Ian Flores Pulse staff reporter With Palo Alto College’s enrollment around 9,500 students, the campus is consistently packed in the early morning to around noon with students heading to class or hanging out with friends and classmates. However, in the afternoons and on Fridays, it’s the total opposite of the usual hustle and bustle.…
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Pros and cons of online classes
By Alesha Thorpe Pulse staff reporter According to The Palo Alto Fact Book, almost half of the 9,163 Fall 2011 and 8,387 Spring 2012 students took at least one online course. Online students have to have determination and willpower to make sure that the classes they take go the way they are supposed to go.…
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Online classes raise issues
By Marilyn Robles Pulse Staff Writer Some students believe online courses are a way to cheat yourself out of your own education. Others think online courses are necessary to maintain our enrollment. “I would pass the course using Google translate,” said Cierra Cooper, a senior Communications major at Texas A&M-San Antonio who took Elementary Spanish…
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