The Goodness of Fit: A Qualitative Multicase Study of Community-Based Graduate Social Work Education-at-a-Distance
Medley, Frances Colleen
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Description
Title
The Goodness of Fit: A Qualitative Multicase Study of Community-Based Graduate Social Work Education-at-a-Distance
Author(s)
Medley, Frances Colleen
Issue Date
1997
Doctoral Committee Chair(s)
Merchant, Betty
Department of Study
Education
Discipline
Education
Degree Granting Institution
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Degree Name
Ph.D.
Degree Level
Dissertation
Keyword(s)
Education, Technology of
Language
eng
Abstract
"The stories depicted here are not optimistic. Perhaps I could best characterize these graduate social work courses, taught at a distance, as well-intentioned, but poorly received. A concern for access is part of the university's ""outreach mission"" to provide educational programs and opportunities to citizens throughout the state: Community based courses and distance education are responses to that obligation. In offering these courses to the social work students via distance education technologies, the Office of Community Based Graduate Programs saw itself as extending a helping hand; the students, however, saw an electronic hand, near robotic, reaching out palm up, into which they first had to deposit their tuition, values, and expectations."
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