Professor Elam

Wed August 29 2012

In the rush to embrace technology, this essay by a physics professor contends that interaction between professors and students is the key to learning and college success. I'd call it motivation, I don't think an onlline class in and of itself motivates anyone, that has to come from within the student. 

I am increasingly dubious about the value, for example, of online homework in accounting. I think it dilutes the idea of he accounting cycle and process. The student far too often simply asks, what number goes in the blank?  That hardly leads to an understanding of the accounting procees. 

What are the successful elements of the college process? Please sound off.