Many Students' Favorite Professors Shun Distance Education. Article from Chronicle profiles Marvin Druger, biology professor at Syracuse who has been teaching courses both face-to-face and DL for 30 years. Prof. Druger is perennially one of the most popular teachers at Syracuse. The article also has links to some of Druger's prerecorded lectures. The theme of the article is that Druger's embrace of DL is unusual, and that many popular professors shun distance education. Snippet: What makes such professors special, Mr. Newman says, is their ability to connect emotionally with students. Because they are used to making that connection face-to-face rather than via distance education, "they'd almost be the last people to be interested in it." The cutting-edge innovators among them are a small subset, he says. The Chronicle has an online discussion forum ("colloquy") dedicated to this issue.
It was me on 5/2/2002 -- 4 days ago. I must be going mad! The Chronicle "Distance Education" page lists the posting date as 5/6/2002. So how did I post it 4 days ago?
DL is about macarena. Take a look and tell me what you think. http://www.degreeinfo.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=4649 Ike
To date there are 15 responses (mostly from faculty) in the online discussion about this topic at http://chronicle.com/colloquy/2002/distance/re.htm
