Second Life Mashup Helps Boost Distance Ed Retention at Huntington JC

Second Life Mashup Helps Boost Distance Ed Retention at Huntington JC

Including the oft repeated pap that people don't like DE because it makes them feel distant.

"We are trying to overcome the distance you feel in distance education by being socially connected,"

This course more likely has high retention because some one with imagination gives a carp about it. Makes it an attractive course and hence students stick with it.

A Defense of In-Person Education :: Inside Higher Ed :: Higher Education's Source for News, Views and Jobs

Here is an article that might be useful to add dimensions to KYD. From the perspective of an educator who doesn't like online education but uses it and enjoys major benefits from that usage. (Doesn't have to travel 2 hours for F2F classes for her PhD program)

The authors view is that F2F is better even though she is participating in a online PhD program.

A number of the comments are also interesting and point out that online education can be, and largely has been, very poorly implemented.
A Defense of In-Person Education :: Inside Higher Ed :: Higher Education's Source for News, Views and Jobs

Defining “Creepy Treehouse” | Flexknowlogy

New term for web based elearning spaces.

n. a place, physical or virtual (e.g. online) built by adults with the intention of luring in kids.

People maintaining distance by generating new terminology based on taboos. The notion here is that the creepy treehouse is where a pedophile might lure children for nefarious purposes. It is an emotionally laden term that is designed to keep institutions at a distance.


Defining “Creepy Treehouse” | Flexknowlogy

Trading Places White Flight

Compare with previous memo about white flight and the phenomenon of suburbs as a KYD strategy.
Trading Places

Train design proposes private seating pods - Boing Boing

Australian designer Hamit Kanuni Kuralkan has designed a train for people who don't want to have anything to do with other passengers.

Train design proposes private seating pods - Boing Boing

Interesting to look deeper into this to learn about motivations etc.
Is it elitism? (eureka!) another category dimension of personal distance perhaps. It will be expensive to build and no doubt expensive to ride but people will pay to KYD.

Research memos.

Data collection for dissertation. Good place to save links and develop ideas. Might try to set up a tagging system for categories indicators and dimensions.