{"id":30591,"date":"2014-02-12T15:42:25","date_gmt":"2014-02-12T19:42:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/met\/?p=30591"},"modified":"2020-09-04T12:49:14","modified_gmt":"2020-09-04T16:49:14","slug":"dr-jay-a-halfond-on-true-distance-learning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/met\/news\/dr-jay-a-halfond-on-true-distance-learning\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Jay A. Halfond on True Distance Learning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/jay-halfond\/distractions-disruptions-_b_4769358.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright wp-image-2867 size-full\" src=\"\/met\/files\/2020\/09\/halfond-headshot.jpg\" alt=\"Former Dean Jay A. Halfond\" height=\"150\" width=\"150\" title=\"Former Dean Jay A. Halfond\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/met\/files\/2020\/09\/bu-met-news-butoday-online-classroom.jpg\"><\/a>MET\u2019s former dean and current Associate Professor of Administrative Sciences, <a href=\"\/met\/faculty\/full-time\/jay-halfond\/\">Jay A. Halfond<\/a>, wrote an article for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/jay-halfond\/distractions-disruptions-_b_4769358.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Huffington Post<\/a> on the growing popularity of distance learning done completely online. Dr. Halfond states that those most attuned to the advantages of distance learning are \u201cgenerally older, with careers and families\u2014[who] want control over their education\u2014not to be bound to a location and schedule that dictates their lives\u2026 This micro-trend is true distance learning: those students taking complete degrees online, anywhere and anytime.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/jay-halfond\/distractions-disruptions-_b_4769358.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><i>The Huffington Post<\/i><\/a>\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MET\u2019s former dean and current Associate Professor of Administrative Sciences, Jay A. Halfond, wrote an article for The Huffington Post on the growing popularity of distance learning done completely online. Dr. Halfond states that those most attuned to the advantages of distance learning are \u201cgenerally older, with careers and families\u2014[who] want control over their education\u2014not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11144,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[52,39,58,37],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/met\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30591"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/met\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/met\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/met\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11144"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/met\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30591"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/met\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64729,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/met\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30591\/revisions\/64729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/met\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/met\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/met\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}