{"id":14390,"date":"2011-01-28T16:31:10","date_gmt":"2011-01-28T21:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=14390"},"modified":"2011-01-28T16:32:43","modified_gmt":"2011-01-28T21:32:43","slug":"can-journalism-education-rise-to-the-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2011\/01\/28\/can-journalism-education-rise-to-the-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"Can journalism education rise to the challenge?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a title=\"Permanent Link: Can journalism education rise to the challenge?\" rel=\"bookmark\" href=\"http:\/\/mindymcadams.com\/tojou\/2011\/can-journalism-education-rise-to-the-challenge\/\">Can journalism education rise to the challenge?<\/a> <\/strong>&#8212; from Teaching Online Journalism by Mindy McAdams<\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Most journalism programs face the same challenges:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>How to find, employ and retain faculty who are comfortable teaching new skills and techniques.<\/li>\n<li>How to provide equipment and software to students (especially with shrinking budgets).<\/li>\n<li>How to keep up with a rapidly changing field.<\/li>\n<li>Perhaps most important: How to determine the best ways to prepare the journalists of tomorrow\u2014our students.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Overall, considering programs of every size and at every kind of  four-year college and university, I would say that just about everyone  needs to do better. Yet the core issue really is that final point on my  list\u2014and I think every journalism program can address that and come up  with satisfying answers.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Seek out new exemplars<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The first step in determining the best ways to prepare the  journalists of tomorrow is to go beyond traditional journalism  organizations. Don\u2019t look only at what newspapers, magazines, and radio  and television news organizations are doing&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can journalism education rise to the challenge? &#8212; from Teaching Online Journalism by Mindy McAdams Excerpt: Most journalism programs face the same challenges: How to find, employ and retain faculty who are comfortable teaching new skills and techniques. How to provide equipment and software to students (especially with shrinking budgets). How to keep up with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[210,25,50,188],"tags":[677,581,594,665],"class_list":["post-14390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-emerging-technologies","category-journalism","category-teaching-learning","category-teaching-online","tag-emerging-technologies","tag-journalism","tag-teaching-learning","tag-teaching-online"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14390"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14395,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14390\/revisions\/14395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}