Distance Learning and Online Degrees. Are they Worth it?
This video presents the answers to such questions as: Are online degrees real degrees? In what ways are online degrees different from one another and also different from traditional degrees? What...
View ArticleOnline Learning: What forms can they take?
This is a great video conference created by the Learning and Instructional Development Centre at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, BC. In this video, different professors from different fields...
View ArticleOn the ‘Perfect Storm’ in Admissions
"Increasingly, colleges will be judged by their ability to graduate students—and not to by their ability to enroll them."http://chronicle.com/blogPost/On-the-Perfect-Storm-in/27330Do you agree? Disagree?
View ArticleTaking Sides in the Classroom
"What is a professor supposed to do when the facts themselves are 'biased'—that is, when a controversy exists in society, but the evidence falls overwhelmingly toward a single...
View ArticleDiscussion Question
Do you think higher education should be government funded? why or why not?What do you think would be the implications of such a system?Comment away!
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Reflecting...
Reflecting on the above image can we assume that success in higher education is dependent on collegiality?
View ArticleMasters Degree Programs Taken Online Are As Good As Traditional Ones
Yes! Masters Degree program on the internet is as similar as attending Master Of Business Administration classes on campus. With advancement in technology, there is noteworthy improvement in the...
View ArticleAcademic Blogs: Connecting People and Ideas
Presenters: Michael Barbour, assistant professor at Wayne State University; Carolyn Steele, Career Sense blogger and PhD candidate at York University; and Mary Cameron, assistant professor at Memorial...
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Academics without borders?
Please lend your expertise to the developing world.by Steven DavisIn 2006, I was looking around for some way to make a contribution after my imminent retirement in 2007. I had taught philosophy at...
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