This is a reply to Joe's post on his blog about the media-methods debate...
As I said in class, I earned my Master's degree entirely online and found that some of my courses were worth taking online while I felt others should have been done in a f2f environment. One idea that I thought stuck out in your discussion above (despite the awesome thought of a throwdown between Jaws vs. Darth Vader) is your mentioning "forced learning." I feel as though this happens all the time in courses that are not designed in a constructivist manner, which during my BA degree was ALL of my classes. The assignments were developed narrowly, allowing for no imagination (something that Brooke mentioned in her blog). With no allowance for imagination, how is one to be motivated to work at all? You are essentially working to get a grade to get a degree. I don't see the fairness in that for the student; you are getting cheated out of something that you are paying SO MUCH for. And I know that some students like that sense of just being told what they need to write about and then they do it and get a grade. For example, one of my friends is teaching a class at UF and has her students doing things that are very constructivist, but they say they want her to pick a topic for them so that they don't have to pick one. What are they going to school for if it's not to work on projects where they get to pick what they want to do and think on their own two feet? Is it just me?
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I remembered putting this lyric on my locker in undergrad days:
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I can remember
back in high school days
Living for freedom
and not for the 'A's
So I sat in the pool hall
on graduation day
Hoping someday I'd find
my place in the line
Ooh, a place in the line
[Jude Cole, a place in the line]
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Apparently, GPA does matter for job placement, but that's all. In a long run, it really means nothing.
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