If I was hired by Baruch College to improve their usage of media, I would
1.) Open up more online courses using blackboard. Blackboard is an awesome way to use technology to instruct courses. For example, our CIS class is an online course. Its easily accessible to all students who are at Baruch and it would maybe decrease the traffic in the college if this was done.
2.) Incorporate more social media websites in courses. For example, instead of writing papers all the time about certain topics, blogging about topics is much more interactive and perhaps students will be more interested in reading the material and writing about it. This kind of change might be much more intriguing and interesting to students.
3.) This would be a stretch but if we could have virtual classes where the instructor is basically teaching the class online with all the students at the same time on a webcam, class might be more exciting.
These are all great ideas. The more that Baruch can move in the direction of providing more classes online, especially with the ability to listen to lectures from home and interact with classmates online, the more convenient and less time consuming taking classes at the school would be, especially taking into consideration most students' busy schedules.
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