Tossing Around the Possibilities July 12, 2006
Posted by thinkphd in : MGT5031 , trackbackI have been thinking about Assignment #2 and a selection of an industry. I have a few ideas that I am tossing around in my head, but I have not decided yet. To be honest, I was leaning toward a particular industry and was doing some preliminary research. I signed onto the student webpage/learner web page and found that Dr. Crake had just posted an “example” paper from a student on the exact same industry and with some of the exact same references that I was looking at.
There is no way that I will choose this industry now. I don’t want Dr. Crake to think that I had copied someone else’s work. Oh well, back to the drawing board. I am just very happy that it was posted before I got too involved in the project.
I took a pause regarding working on my papers because my parents had heart catheterizations yesterday (Mom) and today (Dad). Next Tuesday, Dad will have two stints put in to help two blockages. I have been sitting in the hospital with my parents and instead of reading Wren, I took a novel to read. Of course, in the hospital, there are many interruptions and I just could not see trying to read the text with all of that goings-on.
Tonight, I had a number of papers to grade for a GEN/300 class that finished up on Monday evening. This was a FlexNet class, which is the online and campus blended modality. The grades were pretty good for this class, even though several students had tech/computer issues at the beginning. It is always interesting to see the difference between the first night of class and the last night of class. The learning curve is often very steep when adults return back to school and also take online classes. I know that a number of my fellow learners at NCU are experiencing some of the same things as my students.
Asynchronous learning can be disconcerting at first. Adult learners are well-suited for this method of androgogal instruction, which provides the student with learning based on their needs. Adult learners are self-paced and responsible for the extent of the receipt of knowledge transfer. In other words, asynchronous online learning can be a challenge!
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