Andjulon Richardson
EDAC 655
Envisioning Evaluation
November 12, 2012
Envisioning Evaluation
Professional Review #1
1.
Role and position- Director of Career Services
a. I work as the Director
of Career Services, overseeing the professional development of current
students. I set up workshops in order to assist students in developing their
skills in a variety of fields. I am also in charge of organizing and
facilitating career days to give potential employers and students an
opportunity to meet and network. I also meet with current students to assess
their educational and career goals, and work with them to determine a suitable
plan to reach those goals.
2.
What did you like most about the envisioning?
a. I feel
Andjulon’s envisioning was very insightful and accurate. Andjulon states that
business professionals will increase the cost of education in order to prevent
everyone from receiving the same education. If you consider the different tiers
of education (i.e. ivy league schools, public schools, community colleges,
private schools), you have different stereotypes associated with each. If
education were readily available then the value of attending an Ivy League
school versus a community college would deteriorate. This would ultimately
devalue the knowledge and status associated with a college education.
3.
What could be improved? Why and how?
a. Andjulon’s
envisioning was very well written, but he could choose to go a little further
into the change that would appear, such as how our job market would be affected
by the increase of the cost of education, for example.
Response
The evaluation
previously given provided very good analysis and points that could be improved
upon. The one major point that was given dealt with the need to elaborate on
the change that I saw would take place. I think that this is a very good point
to make, and is critical to the envisioning of continuing professional
education. Therefore, I believe that is necessary to delve a little deeper into
exactly what the world is going to look like in the future. This is quite
different from simply stating what changes I believe will take place in the
future. For example, if I were to state that the increase in cost of CPE would
prevent those from participating, I need to paint a picture as to what that is
going to look like. One excerpt may look like this:
“ With rising costs of the activities associated with continuing
professional education, we could begin to see fewer individuals with the
ability to participate. The middle to lower class citizens will soon face the
conundrum of spending their money on sustaining their way of living, or investing
money into continuing professional education, which may very well help improve
their standard of living. As for the middle-upper to upper class, these
individuals will continue to have the best resources and education available.”
This is just one example
of how I could paint a better picture or provide more depth of what I envision
for continuing professional education. This I believe will help readers see
what I see, and provide a better analysis of what I envision the future of CPE
to be.
Professional Review #2
1. Role
and position- Deputy Director of CASA/Victim Assistance, Adjunct Faculty-Intro
to Business/ Ivy Tech
2.
What did you like most about the envisioning?
a. Mr.
Richardson’s envisioning on CPE is understandable. The future of CPE is in
great demand. Professionals are being faced with upcoming students that are
staying in school to reach that top goal of education. The convenience of web
conferencing is on the rise. Mr. Richardson’s envision on the cost and effect
is correct. The market is in such a high demand that individuals are being
“weaned out”.
3.
What could be improved? Why and how?
a. If
there are any improvements to Mr. Richardson’s envisions should be to take a
closer look at the pros and cons of CPE.
Response
The second professional review
provided a good point as to how I could improve my envisioning of continuing
professional education. Incorporating the benefits and drawbacks of continuing
professional education could provide a richer analysis and give the reader a
thorough look into what I believe the future of CPE to be. I have to admit that
at first I was reserved when confronted with the task of finding drawbacks to
continuing professional education, because I strong supporter of CPE. However,
from reading the evaluation, I came away with a different take from it. I
believe that by providing the pros and cons of continuing professional
education, and incorporating those into what I envision CPE to be in the
future, this shows an unbiased look into my rationales. If I give the view of
what I believe continuing professional education will look in the future from
the standpoint that CPE only has benefits, readers may be wary of considering
my rationales, citing that I have a biased opinion.
Great analysis for citing the pros and cons of CPE! Additionally, I hadn't thought of individuals being "weaned out" due to technology, but it's true in education as well as industry.
ReplyDeleteBarbara
Good thought Barbara and with this envisioning it is important to recognize that...good job with that insight. In education people are not indespensible. with the onset of technology and online training which can be robotic generated...my wife has had some of those trainings the only person necessary is the person putting the site up and running. Sad but true that this has spilled over from industry to education
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ReplyDeleteIt is kind of like Industrialization, the new technology is gradually playing crucial role and is changing our life and our education mode. For example, in the past, higher education can only be accessed by a small percent of population. Now with the support of technology, the higher education can be accessed by people living all over the world (they don't need to come to the sites). With the support of technology, one course from a university can serve thousands of students from every corner of the world, not just twenty or one hundreds of students.
Think of the other benefits of technology for CPE in the workplace: for example, people from the branches of a big organization can exchange their knowledge and ideas easily with each other everywhere at any time, which greatly increases the knowledge scope you can reach; Think of the vast amount of the free learning resources in a virtual space which CPE educators can use for their training activities.
I think the important things are to know how to design the CPE by integrating the free online resources, and how to use technology and different tools to serve our CPE. These I think are more important for CPE educators to learn than just learning some limited knowledge in a course.
Bo
I like the way that you had your professionals answer the same three questions, it allowed for you to respond in a very tactful and effective way. I simply asked my professionals to respond, having more organization might have helped me get things done a little better. Good job.
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