The Goodness of Fit: A Qualitative Multicase Study of Community-Based Graduate Social Work Education-at-a-Distance

"The stories depicted here are not optimistic. Perhaps I could best characterize these graduate social work courses, taught at a distance, as well-intentioned, but poorly received. A concern for access is part of the university's ""outreach mission"" to provide educational programs and opportunities to citizens throughout the state: Community based courses and distance education are responses to that obligation. In offering these courses to the social work students via distance education technologies, the Office of Community Based Graduate Programs saw itself as extending a helping hand; the students, however, saw an electronic hand, near robotic, reaching out palm up, into which they first had to deposit their tuition, values, and expectations."

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Education

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2015

Author dc:creator

• Medley, Frances Colleen

Contributors dc:contributor

• Merchant, Betty

• Education, Technology of

Language dc:language

eng

Identifier

(MiAaPQ)AAI9812700

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/80212