DISTANCE EDUCATION AND CYBER- COUNSELING ON CAMPUS

Universities and colleges today are educating the first cohort of students raised on technology, and who are part of the image-based learning generation as opposed to the print-based learning generation. Online images and communication are a comfortable and approachable modality for the current college generation. Technologies in classroom have been shown to allow students to control, increase motivation, provide connections to a real world, and lead to increased achievement when are tied to content standards and the needs of the students (Valdez, McNabb, Foertsch, Anderson, Hawkes, & Raack, 1999). On the other hand, the interaction between instructor and student seems to be of utmost importance in distance education (Johnson, 1999). Maples and Han (2008) indicated that college counselors and other student development professionals have added a broad range of student services by providing their work through technology both in the USA and South Korea.