Postby levicoff on Thu Jan 08, 2009 2:09 pm


No, I'm not suddenly becoming obsessed with DLT -

http://www.degreediscussion.com/forums/v...f=5&t=6405

So much for the speculation about seeing a little more levity out of Levicoff. The newbie must be shocked and may be wondering, "WTF type of forum did I just join?"

DD thread

Quote:Two-thirds of all colleges and universities — two-year and four-year — reported offering online or partly online “hybrid” courses during the 2006-7 academic year, according to a new report by the National Center for Education Statistics. Other key findings: Distance education courses accounted for an estimated 12.2 million enrollments (or registrations). And asynchronous technologies were the most widely used technology for the instructional delivery of distance courses.

Quote:This report presents findings from "Distance Education at Postsecondary Institutions: 2006-07", a survey that was designed to provide national estimates on distance education at 2-year and 4-year Title IV eligible, degree-granting institutions. Distance education was defined as a formal education process in which the student and instructor are not in the same place. Thus, instruction may be synchronous or asynchronous, and it may involve communication through the use of video, audio, or computer technologies, or by correspondence (which may include both written correspondence and the use of technology such as CD-ROM). The questionnaire instructed institutions to include distance education courses and programs that were formally designated as online, hybrid/blended online, and other distance education courses and programs. Hybrid/blended online courses were defined as a combination of online and in-class instruction with reduced in-class seat time for students.

The 2006-07 study on distance education collected information on the prevalence, types, delivery, policies, and acquisition or development of distance education courses and programs. Findings indicate that during the 2006-07 academic year, two-thirds (66 percent) of 2-year and 4-year Title IV degree-granting postsecondary institutions reported offering online, hybrid/blended online, or other distance education courses for any level or audience. Sixty-five percent of the institutions reported college-level credit-granting distance education courses, and 23 percent of the institutions reported noncredit distance education courses. Sixty-one percent of 2-year and 4-year institutions reported offering online courses, 35 percent reported hybrid/blended courses, and 26 percent reported other types of college-level credit-granting distance education courses. Together, distance education courses accounted for an estimated 12.2 million enrollments (or registrations). Asynchronous (not simultaneous or real-time) Internet-based technologies were cited as the most widely used technology for the instructional delivery of distance education courses; they were used to a large extent in 75 percent and to a moderate extent in 17 percent of the institutions that offered college-level credit-granting distance education courses. The most common factors cited as affecting distance education decisions to a major extent were meeting student demand for flexible schedules, providing access to college for students who would otherwise not have access, making more courses available, and seeking to increase student enrollment.

They closed out one year and brought in the next trading body shots. It looks like it will be more of the same from Uncle J in 2009.

DD "Green" Bible thread

DD Holocaust Story thread

I don't actually understand what they are feuding about, other than the obvious, ... Uncle Janko views Poimen as a POS. Does any have another explanation, perhaps something about theological or sectarian differences?

No, Gollin does not have cancer, thankfully. Calm down. The online higher educational establishment's interests are still safe. There are also no apparent overlapping research interests. The connection is a little more personal in nature.

As Gollin announced at DD, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center President Harold Varmus grew up in Freeport, NY and graduated from their public high school, as did George Gollin.

George Gollin at degreediscussion.com Wrote:Sloan-Kettering's president is the extraordinary (and very cool-- I've met him) Nobel laureate Harold Varmus. To my knowledge he is the most distinguished alumnus of Freeport High School.

George Gollin at degreediscussion.com Wrote:(This particular Freeport is in the suburbs of New York. The YoodleNoodles will flesh this out a bit, I think.)

Talk about beating a dead horse! You can see what George has been doing with his free time over the winter break.

old DD thread

The DiUlus Institute

This thread was actually started by Gus before he became ... preoccupied with other matters.

During an exchange with Nosborne, Levicoff makes some light-hearted comments while Uncle Janko continues to show his nasty side.

DD thread

Quote:George has what I'll call Mike Tyson syndrome. And George... if you don't understand what I mean by that research it. You obviously have plenty of time on your hands.

Quote: The participants of Orion and Isis made up their minds to face the world´s permanently increasing violence.
To fight violence by providing proper redress, 25 individuals longing for peace and dialogue in the world came together among them, a certain number of former Nobel Peace Prize winners and respectable scientists from all over the world.

Each of them is highly experienced in his\her faculty and able to deal with all concerns in a precise and professional way.
Orion and Isis is a so called "think- tank" or "brain- pool" of a special kind.
Contrary to general belief, Orion and Isis is neither transparent from the outside nor from the inside.
The participants don´t know each other either.
This total isolation was created specifically to keep destructive emotions like jealousy, envy etc. with regards to inner human relations as far away as possible, so that work may be carried out objectively and efficiently.
Only Mathias Rust, the coordinator of Orion and Isis, has knowledge of all the identities concerning the participants. He is also the founder of Orion and Isis and is exclusively in charge of dividing and distributing job loads.

Furthermore, he is responsible for formulating the final solution, which is given coherence by taking the different solutions generated by the participants.

Quote:Mathias Rust had dreamt of joining Gorbachev´s political movement by playing an active role on stage to convince e.g. the Soviet youth of the new
policy.
Instead, he found himself locked out of this so admirable policy.

He felt completely misunderstood after Michael Gorbachev publicly stated that he disapproved of the flight of his most likely biggest admirer.
In addition to that, he stated that he felt personally offended and his pride was seriously hit.


The German press attacked him and pushed him out of his weak balance, they didn´t realize, that he was still soaring between dimensions.

Getting right into the spirit of Christmas, psycho cyberstalker George Gollin (George D. Gollin, George Dana Gollin) provides us with a list of people he doesn't even know and calls them all "idiots."  Apparently Dixie isn't far enough back in jail to suit him, so he's taking it out on her customers.  

For some reason people seem to continue to find utility in those SRU degrees.  Could it be that Gollum's big "victory" is about as meaningless as every other aspect of his vapid existence?  

Most people enjoy spending a joyful time with their families at Christmas.  The bitter troll Gollum just wallows in his little taxpayer funded office, attacking others.  Well, considering the sorry state of his hypehenated family I guess it's understandable why he feels so hostile.  

Gollum, here's a suggestion for when you make your New Year's resolutions:  GET A FREAKING LIFE!

The latest example: the Quebec government grants CAN$ 245 millions to UQAM university after the same sunk its own budget after a hectic row of speculations in real estates that left holes as big as

Quote:# L'UQAM avait la responsabilité de la dette totale de l'Îlot Voyageur, 142 M $;
# L'UQAM avait la responsabilité de la dette totale du Complexe des Sciences, 180 M $;

Quote:Les quatre syndicats de l’UQAM reçoivent avec satisfaction le Rapport du Vérificateur général du Québec déposé hier à l'Assemblée nationale. Nous acquiesçons à l’identification des grands facteurs à l’origine de la situation financière catastrophique dans laquelle notre Université se retrouve aujourd’hui.

À la lumière du Rapport, il apparaît que la responsabilité de l’ancien recteur, de son vice-recteur aux Affaires administratives et du directeur des Investissements est indéniable, et s’il y a matière à poursuite, le dossier doit suivre son cours.