Kodiak5 Wrote: Mar 04, 2013 12:29 PM Distance education has
great strengths, but also limitations. I'm a lifelong
CONSERVATIVE, so don't come back with a knee-jerk "you lazy
bums" wave-off because I make my living as a professor. From my
20 years in the business, the most important thing we need to do
is separate the teaching and the evaluation (credentialing)
elements. The students put up with the teacher’s BS because the
teacher controls their grades: If students had to prove their
knowledge and skills to an independent evaluator the professors’
power over them would deflate like a popped balloon.