Students polite in online courses - Frank Gray, Journal Gazette

For an increasing number of students, their first foray into higher education doesn’t mean familiarizing themselves with a college campus or moving into a dorm room, but comfortably logging onto a website to take a class online. While leaving home and going to college requires a certain amount of adjustment, moving from an anything-goes world of Facebook and YouTube posts into the realm of academia can also take some adjustment. Just last week, an AP-NORC Center/MTV poll announced that 52 percent of people 14 to 24 years old say that it is never OK to use slurs, offensive language or be mean-spirited in online posts. That was a marked improvement from three years ago, the poll said, when only 44 percent said such behavior was inappropriate. http://www.journalgazette.net/article/20131129/LOCAL/311299956