[ACCESS News] ACCESSnews Digest, Vol 4, Issue 9

[Kevin Mahaffy]

Amy,

Moody Theological Seminary & Graduate School has been using a cohort modular approach with some success for several years now. I believe they do a one week modular and students may take two courses during each modular. They have 3-4 modulars a year. Some students attend several of them while others just one a year.  Again, they are optional, but most of the resident campus students also participate in modulars to help move their degree along.

Pricing is the same tuition as the resident campus.  Room and Board are extra for those coming from a distance. 

Kevin

Kevin Mahaffy
Director of Operations and Production
Moody Distance Learning
312.329.4134
312.329.2081 Fax

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   1. Question-residencies (Amy Donovan)
   2. Re: Question-residencies (Dan DeHass)
   3. Re: Question-residencies (Dr. Dennis D. Frey)


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Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2010 13:30:48 +0000
From: Amy Donovan <adonovan at gordonconwell.edu>
Subject: [ACCESS News] Question-residencies
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Dear Access Ed community,
I?m writing to pose a question for the group.

We are looking at options to increase the flexibility of our scheduling options for some of our MA programs. Currently we offer 5 day intensives (~30 contact hours) for our courses. We are looking at options to condense the time on campus for a given course to 3 days and schedule two back to back courses. For example, this would involve a 6 day period for 2 courses with 24 hours/course. The courses would include pre and post work online.

Do you know of any graduate level programs that cover coursework for more than 1 course in a given residency?

We want to understand the positive and negative implications regarding educational quality, student schedules and finances, and degree completion. I appreciate any insight you can provide and/or assistance connecting with other schools that may be using this approach.

Blessings,

Amy E. Donovan
Chief Information Officer
Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary
130 Essex Street
South Hamilton, MA 01982
978.646.4250
adonovan at gcts.edu
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Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2010 14:42:16 -0400
From: "Dan DeHass" <DDeHass at lbc.edu>
Subject: Re: [ACCESS News] Question-residencies
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Amy,
We are looking to launch a similar format for an MA and PhD program
within the next year.  These would be cohort model programs.  Although I
can't offer any specifics yet, I do know this is a model used by our
Associate VP at another institution with significant success.  He is
spearheading this through our ILEAD Center.
 
Serving,
 
 
Dan DeHass
Director of Online Education
Lancaster Bible College and Graduate School
901 Eden Road
Lancaster, PA 17601-5036
(717) 569-7071  Ext. 5391


>>> On 4/27/2010 at 9:30 AM, in message
<C7FC5F48.9D8B%adonovan at gordonconwell.edu>, Amy Donovan
<adonovan at gordonconwell.edu> wrote:

Dear Access Ed community,
I?m writing to pose a question for the group.

We are looking at options to increase the flexibility of our scheduling
options for some of our MA programs. Currently we offer 5 day intensives
(~30 contact hours) for our courses. We are looking at options to
condense the time on campus for a given course to 3 days and schedule
two back to back courses. For example, this would involve a 6 day period
for 2 courses with 24 hours/course. The courses would include pre and
post work online.

Do you know of any graduate level programs that cover coursework for
more than 1 course in a given residency?

We want to understand the positive and negative implications regarding
educational quality, student schedules and finances, and degree
completion. I appreciate any insight you can provide and/or assistance
connecting with other schools that may be using this approach.

Blessings,

Amy E. Donovan
Chief Information Officer
Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary
130 Essex Street
South Hamilton, MA 01982
978.646.4250
adonovan at gcts.edu

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