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Educator, Students Provide Frontline Perspectives
6/4/2004
This enabled the university to expand online learning opportunities to other
courses within the social sciences division and across campus, starting with
the Fall 2003 semester. In addition, the university’s Career Services
Department is maximizing resources by offering 12 Web-based workshops for students.
This frees the career counselors to spend more time on “high-touch”
services (situations where students receive one-on-one personalized attention,
such as career advisement, administering of self-assessment tests, critiquing
resumes, and interview role-playing).
Finally, a well-designed, content-rich Web site is vital to a successful distance education experience. We created the site (www.calumet. yorku.ca/sosc2311/) for our pilot eLearning hybrid course as a one-stop-shop that provides not only the streamed lectures, but all the support material as well. With the right tools in place, educators can be more effective and reach a greater number of eager students.
Dalton Kehoe (dkehoe@yorku.ca) is an associate professor of Communication Studies
at York University in Toronto Ontario, Canada.
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