Why Online Programs Fail, and 5 Things We Can Do About It - Hybrid Pedagogy - 76 views
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More and different types of learning and teaching are available in the digital environment. We must convince ourselves that we don’t yet understand digital education so we may open the doors more broadly to innovation and creativity
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we shouldn’t set off on a cruise, and build the ship as we go
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Few institutions pay much attention to re-creating these spaces online
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What spaces can we build online that aren’t quantified, tracked, scored, graded, assessed, and accredited?
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What we have is a series of online classes with no real infrastructure to support the work that students do on college campuses outside and between those classes
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Today, the road to access doesn’t necessarily detour through the university, and anyone, of just about any age, can travel it.
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We’ve created happy little caskets inside which learning fits too neatly and tidily (like forums, learning management systems, and web conferencing platforms). We’ve timed learning down to the second, developed draconian quality assurance measures, built analytics to track every bit of minutiae, and we’ve championed the stalest, most banal forms of interaction — interaction buried beneath rubrics and quantitative assessment — interaction that looks the same every time in every course with every new set of students.