Dr. Carlos Ferran, CMA, CSCA, KM
Welcome to my home page. My name is Carlos Ferran, and I am the Director of Accreditation and Assessment (Associate Dean Equivalent) and Professor of Accounting and Management Information Systems at the College of Business at Governors State University. My areas of interest are accreditation, assessment, assurance of learning, accounting information systems, and photography. I am a Knight of the Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order of St John of Jerusalem, Rhodes, and Malta.
I Dream of Developing the Next Generation of Online Education
I have a dream of developing the next generation of (business) online education. A model of eLearning that is high-quality yet highly scalable. One that is engaging, exciting, detailed or general, or repetitive until the learner finally gets it. Each characteristic when appropriate for the specific topic and audience. When teaching higher education, some topics require lots of practice while others require the development of an emotion (passion for the issue). Some subjects require a Socratic one-to-one approach, while others require multiple ways of explaining until the learner gets it. The next generation of eLearning provides precisely that. One size fits all is no longer the way to go. Neither is forcing everyone to go through repetitions or lengthy lectures if they already understood and internalized the issue. Online education must not mimic face-to-face teaching, and while we learned that it can do just that, we now need to realize that it can be much more if appropriately done. I want to be part of a group that understands this and develops the next generation of eLearning using subject matter expertise, pedagogy, technology, and the scientific method.
