Saba

Wow, Saba was a hefty climb!  It's like asking for a beer and getting a stout.  :)  I ended up loving it.  I'm taking 601 also this semester, so I just finished reading a lot about how Distance Education was industrial learning, designed for the masses.  And I kept thinking....  huh?  Still?  No one has come up with something better?  So now I LOVE systems theory.  It works!  I think it can really define what's going on!  I also love how it can encompass everything, and continue to change and add new ideas, so basically by definition, it can never be considered limited or outdated.  Nice work there, philosophers!  I also love that Saba explained that the guy who defined DE as 'industrial education' eventually went back and allowed for DE to NOT be so industrial.  I do think it's smart to study the origins of DE but I was really struggling with 'industrial education' as the primary theory of DE.
  I feel like it took me a long time to get my Saba discussion post up for this module.  I wrestled with Saba for quite a while and while I did come to really like it, it took me a long time to get my ideas out on paper.  I made Helen (my wife) talk it out with me a few times, which I'm sure she did not love!  I'm hoping to find a groove for grad school where I am working on things and keeping up with things so I don't have to stress out too much.  I probably need to give myself some more time before I'm good at grad school again.  It has been a while!