The Digital Divide
The professor of this course is practicing some great blended learning techniques incorporating contemporary messages appropriate to this learning group. Moreover, she is using YouTube as an educational tool, which shows perspective into how people learn and will learn.
Admittedly, I just began using YouTube for some family videos of my daughter for family living out [...]
Comments on an MBA Decision Blog Post
I was reading an blog about someone’s decision to enroll in an MBA program over at The Finance Journey. I wanted to comment but the commenting option appears disabled, so I am commenting on my own blog in hopes that Chuck, the blogger at The Finance Journey, finds my post. And, for the frequent readers, [...]
Bad PowerPoint…I need your help
So, I have to develop a PowerPoint presentation for my dissertation prospectus. The template is simple but the request for content is not. The information required for this assignment is so detailed that PowerPoint is pushed beyond effective to complicated. I’ve drafted 2 versions and just cannot find a comfortable level of information on the [...]
100.2 Million
Howe and Strauss (2000, p. 414) estimate that 100.2 million Millennials exist U.S. (born or born and immigrated from 1982 to 2002.
This is a staggering number and I was so happy to find it. Since finding it I have seen it listed in a number of peer-reviewed sources and this makes me feel more confident [...]
Student Loan Scandal…Again
I’ve been looking all over the Internet for a list of schools under investigation by the NYS Attorney General, Andrew Cuomo. It is impossible to find.
So I pieced together a list of schools from the NYS Attorney General’s Press Releases. Here is a list of schools being investigated in the Student Loan Scandal (in some [...]
Plagiarism
In the past couple of weeks I had a conversation with a student from Erie Community College that was discussing her latest assignment in a paralegal/legal information systems degree program. The assignment was a 30-page paper due that week. I expressed my shock at the length of the paper for a 100/200 level course. She [...]
Student Loan Scandal
CNN is reporting the play-by-play of the student loan scandal. It is a shame that this happened, students were misled by trusted advisors at major universities.
Thanks to the new New York State Attorney General, Andrew Cuomo. Many of this institutions will be paying students back for the school’s impropriety. In addition, these student lending organizations, [...]