Online Education Gives Rise to the ‘Mini-lecture’
I love this quote below by Dalton A. Kehoe, an associate professor of communication studies at York University in Toronto. It is so honest, and so revealing of the fact that great teachers are learning new things all the time. By way of introduction, Mr. Kehoe has been teaching communications studies for decades. His traditional […]
Examining Some Assumptions about ‘Community’ in Online Learning
Here I go, breaking every blogging rule in the book, but some subjects just demand a little more room for a few more words. So with my apologies…
Here’s a fact that hasn’t been discussed previously on this blog: Online student attrition rates are 10% to 20% higher than for students attending face to face classes […]
Employers Questioning College Grad Readiness for Career Success
In January, this survey of employers conducted on behalf of The Association of American Colleges and Universities was released and immediately gained some widespread attention. That’s because the findings showed many employers expressed genuine concern over the career-readiness of recent college grads entering the workforce.
Writing for The Chronicle of Higher Education, Paula Wasley probably had […]
Dean Dirk Messelaar: A Visionary Builder of Bridges to China
[Editor’s Note: Dirk Messelaar is Dean of Corporate, Continuing, and Distance Education at the University of Massachusetts Boston.]
Next month, accompanying UMassOnline CEO David Gray, Dean Messelaar will be making his fifth trip to China on a ten day mission that continues a visionary journey of cultural and academic discovery he started in 2001 and has […]
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