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“Free” and Higher Education = SMUG
Two recent blog posts that are required reading for SMUG students come from Chris Anderson and Jeff Jarvis. They explain why an institution like Social Media University, Global can exist (and much of what makes the rest of the Web work.) Anderson (Editor-in-Chief of Wired and author of The Long Tail) has a link to [...]
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SMUG Extension Classes
Social Media University, Global (SMUG) is built on the distance-learning paradigm. And unlike traditional universities with on-line programs, we don’t have a requirement that some of the credits be taken on campus in a group setting. Frankly, we don’t have room for all y’all. (I understand that’s the plural for the singular Texas “y’all.”) Don’t [...]
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Class Size
In the U.S. education system, particularly at the elementary school level but also somewhat in high schools, many interested parties have emphasized smaller class size as a key to quality. (Maybe that would have helped Miss Teen South Carolina!) After all, it stands to reason that a teacher with a dozen first graders will be [...]
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