Despite the university's efforts to replicate the traditional program online, MAT@USC students do lose some of the learning benefits of an in - person, in - classroom experience.
Exposing preservice teachers to classes in this manner risks a perpetuation of technology use to replicatetraditional models of classroom practice (Ertmer, 2005; Strudler & Wetzel, 1999; Willis, Thompson, & Sadera, 1999).