Reasons for pursuing an unaccredited degree II

Are you upset because of a simple question?

 

Ken,

Educational scholars now insist that education requires an environment for learning, a context for learning, and the proper actors (roles). Without these, no learning has taken place. This constructivist environment is completely agnostic to the content. That some information has been transferred from one actor to another is not sufficient to be called education.

What has this to do with quality assurance? The type of quality assurance that you promote has not kept up with modern instructional design I'm afraid; it is more suited to validating training programs than education.

However, whether by design or by accident, the RA "processes" that you described are much more aligned with constructist theory now being promoted in the US and throughout the Commonwealth. These processes are essential to ensuring that a proper educational environment is in place, at the institutional level, to enable education to take place (as opposed to the theory of instruction for training that you promote).

(As Ike said, it is okay if you dropped out of HW, or never dropped in. Crank, crank.)

 

There is indeed such a thing as GAAS, but it does not stand for generally accepted academic standards; you may have confused it with GAAP. As the originator of the acronym GAAS, I cannot permit it to be usurped for any other purpose than that for which it was originally intended.

To see the full (and the only authorized) description of GAAS, visit the following DegreeInfo thread: http://www.degreeinfo.com/ubb/Forum1/HTML/000650.html


Gus Sainz
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