Comparing the goals and objectives of an online course and a classroom based course, I don’t see much of a difference. I think that they will be the same. There may be some slight differences but still essentially the same. The basic goals are to have students learn, which is the same in both situations. How we get them to learn maybe be different since our objectives in the classroom invlove hands on materials, lecture and social interaction, where with the online course we have to use technology to get students to be self motivated to learn.