Tomorrow's College - Online Learning - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 0 views
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Will this mash-up of online and offline learning become the new normal elsewhere, too?
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The Chronicle spent three days trailing Ms. Black, Mr. Harrison, and Ms. Hatten to get a closer look at how that shift is changing the student experience
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There isn't much downtime in her schedule. The hybrid class she has next—a fast-growing style here—helps her pull off that packed course load.
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Instructors' Vantage Point: Teaching Online vs. Face-to-Face - Online Learning - The Ch... - 0 views
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Online education promises the ability to bend space and time. Get your education anywhere! Take college courses in your pajamas! Become educated while drinking at a karaoke bar! But it can't deliver on such promises, because although it can bend space, online education cannot bend time.
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The main thing that, in the end, had to go was interactivity, because it required both space and time.
Motivators and Inhibitors for University Faculty in Distance and E-Learning - 0 views
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Cook, R., Ley, K., Crawford, C., & Warner, A. (2009). Motivators and Inhibitors for University Faculty in Distance and E-Learning. British Journal of Educational Technology, 40(1), 149-163. Retrieved from EBSCOhost. This article reports on four United States studies of how rewards systems, extrinsic and intrinsic, could play an important role in providing incentives for university faculty to teach (or remain teaching) electronic and distance education courses. The first three studies conducted prior to 2003 reported faculty were inherently motivated to teach e-learning and distance education. The fourth study in 2003 reported key findings that differed from the earlier studies. Using a principal components analysis, the researchers found nine indicators of motivation to participate or not participate in electronic or distance education. The implications from the fourth study indicated that, while faculty members were inherently committed to helping students, faculty members wanted their basic physiological needs met by university administration through extrinsic motivators, such as salary increases and course releases..
Wartburg College - Waverly, Iowa, USA - 2 views
IMS Global Learning Consortium - 1 views
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IMS GLC is a non-profit collaboration among the world's leading educational technology suppliers, content providers, educational institutions, school districts, and government organizations dedicated to improving education and learning through the strategic application of technology.
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This looks like it should be interesting and I flipped to it...but I can't figure out how to work through the site. I feel like I am entering a discussion that has been going on for awhile and I am sort of lost. Danny, can you help me by directing me to the beginners page...I am not passing "go" and I am not collecting $300...
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I'm not sure what you mean. Did you find a discussion at imsglobal.org?
Duke University -- Campus Technology - 0 views
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SimSoap, a Twitter soap opera tied to a cardiac care simulation, is a project of Innovative Nursing Education Technologies (iNET), a federally funded collaborative effort among the nursing programs at Duke, Western Carolina University, and the University of North Carolina at Charlotte to integrate technology into nursing education. The goal of SimSoap is to create teaching materials that are fun and immersive for nursing students. “Our hope is to model the use of Twitter and spark the curiosity of nurse educators,” says Mary Barzee, iNET’s program coordinator.
Preparing the Academy of Today for the Learner of Tomorrow | EDUCAUSE - 1 views
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Opportunities arise from students' familiarity with technology, multitasking style, optimism, team orientation, diversity, and acceptance of authority. Challenges, on the other hand, include the shallowness of their reading and TV viewing habits, a comparative lack of critical thinking skills, naïve views on intellectual property and the authenticity of information found on the Internet, as well as high expectations combined with low satisfaction levels.
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Institutional leaders need to find ways to think about generations in designing campus and individual student initiatives, as well as to discern trends that will allow future-directed planning.
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faculty development course designed to guide them in both technological and pedagogical approaches to Web instruction. Through a series of interactive sessions with instructional designers and Web faculty veterans, beginning faculty are encouraged to redesign their courses to focus on being student centered and interactive.
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Online Learning Is Growing on Campus - NYTimes.com - 1 views
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Like most other undergraduates, Anish Patel likes to sleep in. Even though his Principles of Microeconomics class at 9:35 a.m. is just a five-minute stroll from his dorm, he would rather flip open his laptop in his room to watch the lecture, streamed live over the campus network.
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The University of Florida broadcasts and archives Dr. Rush’s lectures less for the convenience of sleepy students like Mr. Patel than for a simple principle of economics: 1,500 undergraduates are enrolled and no lecture hall could possibly hold them.
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Online education is best known for serving older, nontraditional students who can not travel to colleges because of jobs and family. But the same technologies of “distance learning” are now finding their way onto brick-and-mortar campuses, especially public institutions hit hard by declining state funds. At the University of Florida, for example, resident students are earning 12 percent of their credit hours online this semester, a figure expected to grow to 25 percent in five years.
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Educating the Net Generation | EDUCAUSE - 1 views
Education Technology News - 2 views
Online Learning (Rowman & Littlefield Education) - 2 views
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Bowman, who currently teaches online undergraduate and graduate courses, and her fellow contributors provide an excellent down-to-earth guide for anyone who is thinking about or participating in an online education program.
Bill Gates Predicts Technology Will Make 'Place-Based' Colleges Less Important in 5 Yea... - 0 views
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On one end will be (and maybe already are) the super-rich who can afford to send their offspring to pricey colleges and universities with a golden future virtually assured even if they're borderline morons. On the other extreme, just above the exploited immigrant classes, will be the products of online schools destined for permanent underclass status.
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Well designed online courses do not simply push out information to self-motivated learners. Well designed courses include collaboration, formative & summative assessment, and absolutely require faculty participation. To suggest you could pull that off for $2000 for a four year degree is amusing.
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Real teaching is done in small groups, or 1:1 like Oxford. The rest is compromise with resources.
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EDTECH: Focus On Higher Education - Small Wonders - 0 views
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The institutions whose notebook initiatives have proved to be the most enduring “have a clear and compelling curricular vision” for the role of computers inside and outside the classroom
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Start with professors. “You’re going to have to invest in the faculty,” says Michael Zastrocky, vice president and education industry research director at Gartner. “Let them have the machines a year before you give them out to the students, and provide them with training. It gets them comfortable, and gives them time to learn how they are going to use them in the classroom.”
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Small colleges that have thriving one-to-one computing programs say success hinges not on the machines’ technical details but on understanding how to use them.
Live vs. Distance Learning - Measuring the Differences - NYTimes.com - 2 views
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The educational value of online courses has been debated for years, based on a large but uneven body of research. An analysis of 99 studies by the federal Department of Education concluded last year that online instruction, on average, was more effective than face-to-face learning by a modest amount.
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But that analysis has been challenged because so few of the underlying studies include apples-to-apples comparisons. Mark Rush of the University of Florida and colleagues tried to do just that by contrasting grades of students who sat through a semester of his live microeconomics lectures with those who watched online.
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Their conclusion, reported in June by the National Bureau of Economic Research: some groups of online students did notably worse.
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4 Myths About For-Profit Online Learning - Online Learning - The Chronicle of Higher Ed... - 1 views
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while for-profit institutions such as Capella and Kaplan Universities and the University of Phoenix educate hundreds of thousands of students online, their officials report that the average enrollment per course ranges from only nine to 18
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at Phoenix, as reported for August of this year, 470,800 students were being served by over 33,000 faculty members, for a student-faculty ratio of just over 14 to 1
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focus on what a student is expected to know