| Department of Classics | University of Colorado at Boulder | December 2001 |
Table of Contents
Active Undergraduates Spread Success Across Campus and Continents
Classics Graduate Program Marks Many Successes
Lively Lectures Abound This Year
Meet Bekki Richards, an Innovator in Distance Education
Legio XIIII Invades CU's Campus
Alumni Secure Prestigious Positions
Friends of Classics at CU-Boulder
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Meet Bekki Richards, an Innovator in Distance Education
Bekki Richards, who will receive her MA in December, is quickly moving into the front ranks of an exciting new movement in Latin pedagogy, online or distance education. Last year Bekki accepted a job with the Colorado Online School Consortium (COSC) teaching Latin, and soon found herself teaching 45 of the total 250 students enrolled in all online courses in Colorado. Forty of her online students are enrolled in Latin I, and most come from Chatfield High School in Jefferson County, whose Latin teacher retired. Other students hail from Salida, South Park, Loveland, the Denver School of the Arts and Centaurus High School in Lafayette. COSC includes a total of 54 school districts so the potential number of enrollees is vast.
In September Bekki joined an E-Learning Task Force and Study Group created by the Colorado Department of Education, charged with the task of making recommendations to the governor and legislature concerning distance learning in Colorado and drafting a proposal for a state-sponsored virtual high school. In October she attended the CiTE Virtual High School national symposium in Chicago.
Bekki is well prepared for her career, having obtained a BA in Classics from Brigham Young University and an MS in Instructional Technology from Utah State University, prior to coming to CU’s Department of Classics in August 2000. She has recently accepted a position as Assistant Director of Learning Design with the Connecticut Distance Learning Consortium, supervising distance education for grades K-12. She begins her new job in New Britain, CT on January 4, 2002. We look forward to keeping in touch with Bekki as she blazes the trail in online education.
