Purpose

Research Question:
How can the College's Graduate/Professional Studies programs be enhanced or reconfigured in order to meet the changing needs in Northeast Ohio?

This is an attempt to capture my research process and to share my research findings with as many people as possible. My project goal is to research workforce needs and economic development projections in Northeast Ohio in order to provide recommendations for program enhancement, particularly in Graduate and Professional Studies.

I chose to conduct my project in this public manner in order to explore one aspect of the type of technologically integrated learning for which I am advocating. I have not blogged before, so bear with me.

Early posts merely reflect information gathered. As I progress, my later posts will be more analytical and synthetic. I invite any and all comments, thoughts, musings, questions, and connections. The more personal input I receive, the more meaningful my recommendations will become.

If I have learned anything in the past few weeks, it is certainly that there are many important things that I just don't know, so help me out if you see the need.

Please click on the links that are in (almost) every post to get detailed information from the source itself.

Monday, October 13, 2008

From the Chronicle of Higher Education, "Colleges Struggle to Keep 'Smart' Classrooms Up to Date"

We have to foreground and sustain professional dvelopment.

It is important to focus on the human element of technology in the classroom, not the hardware aspect of technology in the classroom. It appears that one of the first needs identified by people who want to incorporate more technology into teaching is hardware. This is a one shot, installation and-it's-done mentality that essentially is a set up for longer term failure. Technology needs grow quickly, and that which is considered "cutting edge" changes quickly....People need to be able to keep up.

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