A Framework for Developing Online and Blended Degree & Certificate Programs for Non-Traditional Students

This framework distills the ideas and data that were discussed in detail in the "Related Notes" previously posted on this blog that are listed at the end of this paper.

Closing the Digital Divide at HBCUs

Way back in the mid 1970s, I was an energetic, ambitious young professor at an HBCU. I had a capacity for envisioning sophisticated computer applications and a talent for cutting a lot of computer code real fast. One of the hottest buzzwords in the business press back then was the notion of a "paperless office" -- a super-efficient white collar workplace wherein all documents were digital. No typewriters. No copiers. No inter-office snail mail. No file cabinets. No paper.