This is an online course for White-Collar and Corporate Crime licensed through Creative Commons. Notes from the textbooks used to teach the course are included as are discussion forum questions.
Type of Material:
Online course
Recommended Uses:
The course provides detailed lectures for someone teaching a course on this subject. It could also be used as homework or an individual/team project.
Technical Requirements:
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Identify Major Learning Goals:
• Discuss why some occupations hold greater opportunity for criminal gain than others
• Understand how occupational subcultures facilitate white-collar crime;
• outline the ever increasing types of white-collar crime.
• • Discuss how such crimes can be prevented and controlled.
Target Student Population:
Undergraduate criminal justice/law enforcement students
Prerequisite Knowledge or Skills:
None
Content Quality
Rating:
Strengths:
Pontell (professor) is highly regarded in this field. The lectures are clear and concise. The discussion forum questions are thought-provoking. There is exhaustive coverage of the concept of white collar crime and exceptionally thorough discussion of the many different forms of white collar crime.
Concerns:
I don't think it would be easy to navigate or pull out specific sections of the lecture. The course is set up for students to use in a linear fashion. I also find it problematic that no documentation is given anywhere in the course site for where the materials from the lectures are taken from. It's unclear if the information is taken from the texts hes using for the course or from other sources.
Potential Effectiveness as a Teaching Tool
Rating:
Strengths:
The author is obviously an expert on the topic and does a very good job of walking students of the course through the various issues related to white-collar crime. The information is well organized into manageable segments.
Concerns:
I don't think a student could learn efficiently or quickly about the issue from this site. That isn't the purpose of this type of material however. It is meant to take a semester to get through all of the reading materials and lectures.
Ease of Use for Both Students and Faculty
Rating:
Strengths:
It is an interesting way to present lecture materials and I would like to look into the IMS that is used here. It appears to give instructors a lot of freedom regarding course design. I like how the instructor has included pictures along with the lectures and pictures of the readings the students are supposed to have. However, once again, no attribution is given for where these were obtained.
Concerns:
However, unless a student is going through the materials in a linear fashion, it is difficult to navigate the site. There is no home page from which students can find information they're looking for; just rudimentary dropdown menus across the top of whatever page they're on in the lecture.
Creative Commons:
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