Monday, December 18, 2006
Day 2 - Fourth Session
The fourth session was by Bart from Univ. Maastricht around a new Euro-masters website they are forming, and a course they want to develop for incoming masters students who are from weaker institutions, so they can take an online summer course to catch up before the masters.
Seemed intent that universities across Europe would want to give their information about failure rates for international students. I tend to think competition edge could be lost with too much transparency. Not sure university leaderships would agree with this plan.
We also looked at Richard Parsons from Dundee's model for planning a course, and figuring out what to do online, what offline. Didn't really help me much though. I think the only summer course we run is for international students with poor English.
The highlight of the second day was talking with Craig Chanoff, VP of client support at Blackboard during lunch. I did like the idea of using audio to give borderline students support too.
Seemed intent that universities across Europe would want to give their information about failure rates for international students. I tend to think competition edge could be lost with too much transparency. Not sure university leaderships would agree with this plan.
We also looked at Richard Parsons from Dundee's model for planning a course, and figuring out what to do online, what offline. Didn't really help me much though. I think the only summer course we run is for international students with poor English.
The highlight of the second day was talking with Craig Chanoff, VP of client support at Blackboard during lunch. I did like the idea of using audio to give borderline students support too.
// posted by Brian @ 5:31 PM 
