Posted on February 19, 2010 by wally metts
Note: This is a presentation I gave in February 2010 at the 27th Annual Academic Chairperson’s Conference. It’s fairly long, by blog standards, the equivalent of six double spaced pages. A retrospective analysis of the launch of a new online only program, it discusses what I call the Field of Dreams model of program development. [...]
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Posted on February 6, 2010 by wally metts
It’s no surprise that administrators at the Association of American Colleges and Universities’ conference this month felt that expectations about research and tenure were interfering with the quality of learning. What is surprising is that the solutions proposed are so timid. Fewer lectures will help but it won’t save us.
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