As time goes on, there is a growing number of tech solutions that allow for more of the legal industry to go digital. For example, Remote Legal allows for a large number of court proceedings to be done online to help save time for lawyers. You can view their website here but the point is, […][...]
Posts Tagged ‘online education’
UW .. free online courses!
Last week The AVE reported on the online university called Western Governors University. A lot of our concern was that WGU courses are very expensive. This week we looked to see what free online course ware the Udub offers. This is just beginning, but very much worth a look and .. IT IS FREE! Enjoy![...]
March 22nd, 2011 - 10:58 pm § in America, Schools & Colleges
Engineering vs. liberal arts: Who’s right — Bill or Steve?
Vivek Wadhwa, Duke College of engineering Ed. Prof. Wadha writes about a dilemma. While he feels strongly that the humanities are essential for educating creative people in his discipline, graduates of humanities programs have huge trouble being employed. He noted that 63% of the CEOs or heads[...]
March 22nd, 2011 - 1:55 pm § in Schools & Colleges
Computer Science at an Online University, Western Governors University,
Ed. Michael Stiber, a UW professor on Computer Science at Western Governors University,” has written a brief review of the offerings in Computer Science at WGU. This is important because Comp Sci, Nursing and K-12 teacher education are the three areas where WGU claims to have considerable stre[...]
March 22nd, 2011 - 6:28 am § in America, Schools & Colleges
WGU’s model for “online education.” There IS a better way.
Ed. The discussion the last couple of days here has referred to “online education” as if that were some sort of magic. BroadWebcast a lecture, add some mulitple choice questions and … you are ONLINE! This sort of computer based learning is just a sad extension of the overlo0asded c[...]
How to Cut Costs of Higher Ed? .. eliminate the faculty
Bill would partner Washington with online university Western Governors University Enrollment: 20,000 students nationwide, 900 of them in Washington state. Degrees offered: More than 50 bachelor’s and master’s degree programs in subjects such as business, health, information technology an[...]
March 10th, 2011 - 6:54 am § in Misc.
Privatize the UW: One Way to Make a LOT of Money
Ed. All this handringing over cuts to the UW budget. We are worried about losing the Evans School because it does not make enough money! Here is a private school, one with far less prestige than the UW, no NCAA football, AND a PROFIT of $127.000.000! How did they do it? The door marked “[...]
March 8th, 2011 - 6:51 am § in Uncategorized
Web Freedom
I think the time has come for a constitutional amendment adding freedom of the web to our existing first amendment rights. My immediate reason for this came from the mess last week when Gmail went down: As most of those affected by the Gmail outage return to their inboxes, a lingering sense of uneas[...]
March 6th, 2011 - 9:16 pm § in Schools & Colleges
COLLEGE PRESIDENTS: Solve budget crisis = online ed, drop tuition “discounts,” end tenure.
Ed. As the UW Presidential Search continues with little apparent faculty input, this survey of sitting presidents is very disturbing. The bottom line is that these CEOs seem to have no interest in academic quality, whether that means addressing the increasing issue of remedial classwork or the nee[...]
A Response to Politicians in Ohio and Olympia: “We shall meet the enemy, and not only may he be ours, he may be us.”
Ohio Senate Votes to Deny Collective-Bargaining Rights to Most Public-College Professors This time I may be siding with the enemy. An article in the linked issue of the Chronicle reports that the Ohio State Senate is joining Wisconsin in ruling that faculty do not have collective bargaining rights. [...]