On-Line Learning Will Help Construction Practitioners Teach
At a time when industry practitioners already seem to work 25 hours a day, who has time to earn a graduate degree on the side? Four construction schools are using technology to ease that challenge and start developing a supply of well-qualified future educators.
Many universities and vocational schools now require instructors to have advanced degrees to teach, and groups such as the Associated General Contractors are concerned there is a dwindling supply of professionals with both field experience and education credentials, says Roger Liska, chairman of the Construction Science and Management Dept. at Clemson University, Clemson, S.C.