The Conversation on Critical Thinking Joins Local and Global Voices
I recently featured an opinion piece by Dr. Cynthia A. Suopis who is the former Director of University Without Walls at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and currently a distinguished lecturer. In that piece, entitled “Face-to-Face or Online Instruction? Is That the Best Question?” Dr. Suopis challenged several assumptions made by some over the quality […]
Redefining Democracy for the Internet Age
At some risk, I’m going to stray a bit from the core content and principal competency area of this blog site. The topic I will address, however, is tangentially related to online learning; it is doubtless related to online anything.
Yesterday (Sunday, June 22), I listened as I usually do to National Public Radio’s “Weekend Edition […]
Are You Learning on Empty?
Ray Schroeder, Professor Emeritus and Director of the Office of Technology Enhanced Learning at the University of Illinois at Springfield probably puts it most succinctly in a recent post on the Online Learning Update: Want to know the great thing about the Internet? It doesn’t run on gas. That’s what commuting students increasingly are considering […]
Face-to-Face or Online Instruction? Is That the Best Question?
[Note: This opinion piece, which first appeared June 2nd in Communication Currents and reprinted here with permission, is by Cynthia A. Suopis, PhD. She is the former Director of University Without Walls at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and currently a distinguished lecturer. For over 36 years the UMass Amherst University Without Walls (UWW) has […]
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