Location
Smyth 146
Event Website
http://www.cpe.vt.edu/cuenr/index.html
Start Date
3-27-2010 10:30 AM
End Date
3-27-2010 11:00 AM
Description
Submitted as part of the Natural Resource Distance Learning Consortium (NRDLC)panel arranged by Kieran Lindsey. Distance learning is quickly becoming the educational opportunity of the future for those students who may not or would not be able to participate in a traditional college education. In addition, for universities to remain current, viable, and competitive, we must embrace at least some form of distance education. In a field where we are carefully watching consolidation of our colleges and departments and the bottom line of recruitment and retention, distance learning may provide us with a way to increase student numbers and diversity within those numbers. This presentation works with the other pieces of this distance learning session by addressing diversity, such as current trends of diversity, how we might tap into that information to improve the diversity of our student representation in the natural resource fields, increase our enrollment numbers, how distance learning feeds into this process, and issues that might arise by working with diverse audiences in a distance learning atmosphere.
Included in
Distance Learning and Diversity
Smyth 146
Submitted as part of the Natural Resource Distance Learning Consortium (NRDLC)panel arranged by Kieran Lindsey. Distance learning is quickly becoming the educational opportunity of the future for those students who may not or would not be able to participate in a traditional college education. In addition, for universities to remain current, viable, and competitive, we must embrace at least some form of distance education. In a field where we are carefully watching consolidation of our colleges and departments and the bottom line of recruitment and retention, distance learning may provide us with a way to increase student numbers and diversity within those numbers. This presentation works with the other pieces of this distance learning session by addressing diversity, such as current trends of diversity, how we might tap into that information to improve the diversity of our student representation in the natural resource fields, increase our enrollment numbers, how distance learning feeds into this process, and issues that might arise by working with diverse audiences in a distance learning atmosphere.
https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/cuenr/Sessions/Distance/6
Comments
Citation: Williams, P.S, T. Conway. 2010. Distance learning and diversity. UENR Biennial Conference, Session Distance Education, Paper Number 6. http://digitalcommons.usu.edu/cuenr/Sessions/Distance/6/.