THE TELECOURSE AS AN ALTERNATIVE TO A TRADITIONAL IN-CLASS ACCOUNTING COURSE
Titel:
THE TELECOURSE AS AN ALTERNATIVE TO A TRADITIONAL IN-CLASS ACCOUNTING COURSE
Auteur:
Cunningham, Billie M.
Verschenen in:
Community college journal of research and practice
Paginering:
Jaargang 12 (1988) nr. 3 pagina's 205-212
Jaar:
1988
Inhoud:
There are many challenges involved with starting a new college, and with starting a new accounting program within a new college. One challenge to Collin County Community College District was, and still is, that of making the classes accessible to the citizens of Collin County, which has an area of 836 square miles and an estimated 1987 population of 230,000. With this challenge in mind, the Collin County Community College District faculty, following the lead of the Dallas County Community College District (its friendly, helpful neighbor to the South), decided to offer the option of tele-courses, or self-paced courses, to students in certain, experimental subject areas. Accounting was one of those subject areas. The accounting faculty decided to offer a self-paced telecourse to its Financial Accounting I classes beginning in the Fall of 1986. This would be an alternative to the traditional in-class accounting courses of the same name that were also being offered. The purpose of this paper is to share the results of a preliminary evaluation of the accounting telecourse at Collin County Community College. Colleges who have not yet tried this alternative to in-class courses may find, upon trying it, that it can be a very effective way to reach students who may not otherwise have the schedule or available transportation to take a traditional course.
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