From China!

We’ve all heard about and often debated the merits of distance education.  Some of you have probably taken an online course.  But, at Mary Washington and other liberal arts colleges, where we value the immediacy of classroom interactions between faculty and students, many people wonder if the the technologies involved in distance education undermine that experience.

Donald Rallis would argue that we need to use these technologies not to try to replicate what we already do in the classroom, … Read the rest

Hard to believe we’ve reached another Fall Break – the midpoint in another semester. I know I’ve been pretty quiet lately, but that’s not a fair reflection of what’s going on in the MW Geography Department. Here are a few blurbs about what’s new:
We’ve embraced the new First-year seminar program (a new general education requirement. Jackie Gallagher is offering a seminar on water resources while Donald Rallis is teaching “Imagining Africa.” These seminars not only prepare first year students … Read the rest