Will Piona

Will Piona

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Through my limited experience, I have found the most effective way to evaluate the effectiveness of a course, or an entire program for that matter, is to evaluate the quality of the graduate. This means that the course or program must first run its length, then the graduating student must be evaluated on their ability to meet the demands that are placed upon them once in the field. For example, the only way to know what the best way to build a car is would be to build the car, test it, evaluate the car's performance stated criteria, then build… >>>

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One obvious major difference between the on-ground and online is the administration of tests/exams. Normally tests for an on-ground program are closed book. How can we mediate this in an online environment, or can we? I would like to hear from you all on this matter :-)

First off, I am an instructor for Bryan University Online where we have LIVE lecture. In our live lectures, we the instructors have microphones and cameras as do the students and therefore we do in fact have real interaction. Essentially, our class sessions are held in a Skype-like environment, but with a fully interactive learning environment that includes a white board, application sharing abilities, web-touring abilities, presentation uploading abilities, and much more. So you could probably imagine my amusement with the portion of the presentation for this course that discussed the idea that face to face interaction does not take… >>>

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Technology has greatly improved the ease of which we are able to attend school, even with busy full time work schedules and such. However, with the "disconnect" of being in an online environment, the quality of the education as compared to that of being in the actual classroom suffers greatly. This shortcoming of the online environment is not easily resolved. As both a full time online instructor AND on-ground instructor, as well as a full time online student I am constantly searching for additional methods for improving online educational quality. The search continues.....

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