About the Course
I. Course Description:
This course offers
an overview of the development of American higher education in
the 21st Century. It aims to help students understand the
origins of contemporary practices and problems in American
higher education. Virtual reality has become common in both
training and simulation. Higher education is likely to be one of
the first to commonly make of the virtual environment,
particularly in the United States. Technology prompts so-called
virtual universities and distance learning institutions, which
overrules the traditional linear teaching and learning mode. How
technology influences American higher education and how
instructional media is allied as one of the teaching approaches
also forms one of the major issues that is investigated in the
course. This course is designed to help students acquire the
ability to use academic English fluently and accurately in
speaking, listening, reading and writing.
The content of the course will be presented through various
ways: presentations by the instructor (on video), online
discussions, regular classroom student presentations, and
individual and group assignments online.
Major reading
themes include: (1) the development of different types of
educational institutions and various aspects of higher
educational administration; (2) evaluation and taxonomy in
American higher education; (3) academic reputation and mission
of the Research University; (4) Technology in American Higher
Education; (5) instructional technology in American Higher
Education; (6) distance learning
II. Course
Materials
1.
Altbach, Philip G, Robert O. Berdahl,
and Patricia J. Gumport, eds. American Higher Education in
the Twenty-first Century. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins
University Press, 1999.
2.
Kerr, Clark. The Uses of the
University. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2001.
3.
University of Michigan. (2000).
A University for the 21st Century. Ann Arbor:
The University of Michigan Press.
4.
Breton, Gilles and Michel Lambert.
(2003). Universities and Globalization. Paris: UNESCO.
5.
Oxford, Rebecca L. ed. Tapestry.
Singapore: Thomson Learning, 2000.
6.
Introduction
to St. Louis University. Video Tape, St. Louis, 1999.
7.
Robert J. Morse and Samuel M.
Flanigan. (2004). ˇ§Americaˇ¦s Best Colleges 2005: How we rank
schoolsˇ¨ U.S. News and World Report.
8.
The Carnegie
Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. (2001). The
Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education,
2000 ed. Menlo Park, Calif.
9.
Jonnathan, D. H. (2000). Learning with
Technology.
III. Grading Policy
20% |
Worksheet assignment (on-line) |
30% |
Oral Presentation (in class) |
30% |
Mid-term/Final exams (in class) |
15% |
On-line discussion ( 6 times) |
5% |
Listening comprehension (on-line) |
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