Busy Profs and Effective DL Learning

Indeed it is for worry, Bill.

For a guy working on two DL doctorates you may have too much time on your hands. Ever considered a third doctoral program?

 

Are professors just supposed to select the books that students will use and organize the exams ?
If that is the case there is a great market for the Thomson MBA certificate. For the student it will cost just the 75US$ for the best book in each of 12 fields and a US$ 450 examination fee et voila they have the same thing total US$1350.

 

Perhaps the issue is not so much that a prof make insightful comments, questions or reference to further research.
If a DL student meticulously follows a research proposal which has been approved by his/her prof, perhaps the issue is making sure that the submitted work is acceptable to the approved research proposal. Once the RP is given initial approval, both prof and student are in alignment/agreement with what shall be done (and how it shall be done), it could from this point forward be a matter of the prof confirming that this has been accomplished. If this is the scenario it could be done in a limited amount of time, unlike the prof who must evaluate a single submission based on no previously agreed criteria.

 

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This is true of the thesis/dissertation experience. However, what my comments , and I believe the quote by the good prof Kennedy, addressed was a prof grading class submissions in DL 'teaching.' I was saying he could not read carefully and comment on a paper in 21 minutes! As my initial post described, this was a prof supervising 230 students in various courses. And my last post spoke of teaching DL classes not supervising theses.

But thanks for the reminder Russell that I must follow the proposal. Pitchers already has drawn my attention to my proness toward wandering BTW, I believe Pitcher's spends 3-5 hours on my chapter submissions.