American Academy of Distance Learning Will Conduct a Special Briefing for Congressional...

American Academy of Distance Learning Will Conduct a Special Briefing for
Congressional Staff and University Administrators
NORFOLK, Va., July 10 /PRNewswire/ --

Topic: Learning Outcome Assessments: Problems and Alternatives

Time: 12:30 pm, Friday, July 18, 2008

Place: U.S. Capitol Building, Room, HC9

Panelists: Dr. Diane Auer Jones, President, The Washington Campus and
former Assistant Secretary for Postsecondary Education
Dr. Peter Wood, Executive Director, National Association of
Scholars
Dr. William Sloane, Adjunct Professor Law, Widener University

Moderator: Dr. Richard Bishirjian, President,
American Academy of Distance Learning

What is Outcome Based Education?
Are the liberal arts, and the colleges and universities that preserve
them, endangered by attempts by the U.S. Department of Education to impose one
size fits all testing for learning outcomes?
The justification for national testing in higher education is based in the
need to assure that billions of dollars in annual subsidies are well spent.
The U.S. Department of Education proposes testing to track learning outcome
behaviors. Are there alternatives to such testing?
What is Outcomes Based Education? What are the dangers to subjecting this
type of accounting for learning outcomes on American higher education?
Educators from a wide range of higher education institutions have
expressed concern that the push to test for learning outcomes will destroy the
Liberal Arts and threaten higher education's independence. Here are two links
that define the issues.
http://www.yorktownpatriot.com/article_289.shtmlhttp://www.yorktownpatriot.com/article_286.shtml

Contact: Richard J. Bishirjian, Ph.D.
American Academy of Distance Learning
P. O. Box 41211
Norfolk, VA 23541
E-mail: academydl@gmail.com

SOURCE American Academy of Distance Learning

Richard J. Bishirjian, Ph.D., of American Academy of Distance Learning,
+1-303-757-0059, academydl@gmail.com