She made it work by combining videotapes and long-distance transmissions with weekend meetings and study teams. In the process, Ige has become a believer in the virtues of flexibility and distance education. We have a different student and a different society. Now everybody goes to school. A student may have a job, may have three kids, may be a single parent, may work in the steel mill.
People do everything twenty-four hours a day now.
As long as we do whatever we can to keep some hands-on in the process, blending the new technology holistically into traditional methods rather than throwing the traditional out altogether. We need to find ways to meet student needs through diverse teaching strategies while maintaining high competency levels. Such concerns are part of her commitment to the Swingshift College. People talk as if distance ed is just two-way interactive video. But we also need to take it off campus to the students where and when they need it.