Advice to Baruch College

In this age of new media, educational institutions have been completely changing how they operate. Baruch College certainly has been implementing new media in their operations, but not to its full potential.

I think that Baruch could offer more online classes. Through new media online classes have been a major success. An argument against online classes is that it takes away from classroom interaction between classmates and professors. However, if the college could utilize a blog-like system, students can have discussions with eachother and the professor. Also, something that hasn't really been implemented into current online classes is the use of virtual reality. If professors can deliver their lectures through virtual reality, students can listen through the lecture at any time and place. In a college like Baruch where majority of students are also working, online classes are extremely valuable by making their class schedules as flexible as possible.

Another way Baruch College could utilize new media is to have a profile for professors upon selecting their classes for your schedule. I believe if professors' ratings could be seen along with other information on the course, it will give them more incentive to teach the course to the best of their ability. Other colleges already implement this system and this could be extremely useful to students.