10-Step Survival Guide for Journalism Schools
Joe Murray, a journalism professor at Kent State University, writes an essay, Adapt or Die: A 10-Step Survival Guide for Journalism Schools Stuck in the Fourth Estate. It’s written in a breezy, but well documented style. It’s mostly common sense advice with a few good insights and worth a read.
Here was an insight for me:
Since Net Geners spend so much of their time online, it seems reasonable to expect that they would have a strong preference for Web-based courses. The reverse is actually true, as illustrated by a study from the University of Central Florida. Older students (Matures and Baby Boomers) are much more likely to be satisfied with fully Web-based courses than are traditional-age students. The reason relates to the Net Gen desire to be connected with people and to be social as well as their expectations of higher education. Traditional-age students often say they came to college to work with faculty and other students, not to interact with them online. Older learners tend to be less interested in the social aspects of learning; convenience and flexibility are much more important.
