Ron Legon

Ronald Legon is Executive Director of The Quality Matters Program and Provost Emeritus of the University of Baltimore (UB), where he served as Provost from 1992 to 2003. He also served as Director of the MBNA e-Learning Center at UB, which launched the first AACSB accredited fully online MBA program in 1998, and Director of the Helen P. Denit Honors Program. Over the past 45 years, Dr. Legon has taught history and humanities at Brooklyn College, the University of Illinois at Chicago, the University of Chicago, and, most recently, at UB, where he has taught online, hybrid and face-2-face courses. He has published widely in the field of Greek History and, in recent years, on the subject of online education. Dr. Legon makes frequent presentations regarding the Quality Matters Rubric and process and the accumulating research findings regarding the impact of QM. In the past year he has presented at the Maricopa Community Colleges, the University of West Florida, DePaul University, Capella University, the Minnesota Learning Commons, the Sloan Consortium, the Instructional Technology Council, and Massachusetts Colleges Online. Dr. Legon received the 2008 award for Individual Leadership in the Field of Distance Learning from the U. S. Distance Learning Association.

Publications

Foreword
Foreword
Ron Legon. © 2011. 3 pages.
This Foreword is included in the book Distinctive Distance Education Design: Models for Differentiated Instruction.
Case Study- Web-Based Education Diffusion
Case Study- Web-Based Education Diffusion
A. K. Aggarwal, Ron Legon. © 2006. 24 pages.
Web-based education is diffusing across universities, disciplines, globes and educational levels. Many institutions are at the crossroad whether or not to adopt web-based...