Will this mash-up of online and offline learning become the new normal elsewhere, too?
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Academic Impressions - News and Analysis - 0 views
iPad on the Hill.com - Seton Hill - 0 views
Laptops All Around! Now What? -- Campus Technology - 0 views
Tomorrow's College - Online Learning - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 0 views
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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.
Learning the Art of Virtual Instruction - Online Learning - The Chronicle of Higher Edu... - 2 views
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A 2007 survey of more than 10,000 faculty members at 69 public colleges and universities found that more than two-thirds of professors thought online learning was inferior or somewhat inferior to face-to-face instruction.
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"We help them understand that it's a classroom, not a Web site."
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Sloan study found that about 55 percent of probationary, tenure-track faculty members felt they were unlikely to receive adequate recognition for their online work at tenure and promotion time.
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
Views: Our Obligation to Adapt - Inside Higher Ed - 2 views
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I especially like some of the comments after this article.
2010 Campus Computing Survey | The Campus Computing Project - 1 views
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(70.3 percent) of the survey participants agree/strongly agree that “mobile [LMS] apps are an important part of our campus plan to enhance instructional resources and campus services.”
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(60.5 percent) of the survey participants agree/strongly agree that “lecture capture is an important part of our campus plan for developing and delivering instructional content.”
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(86.5 percent) agree or strongly agree that “eBook content will be an important source for instructional resources in five years,”
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iKnow + FHU - 0 views
UB Buzz: Shaping the Future with Online Learning - 2 views
Presenting with Twitter and other backchannels - 0 views
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Presenting with Twitter can be challenging. Just about every week a new story of a speaker getting roasted on Twitter makes waves in the blogosphere. I’ve written a free eBook “How to present with Twitter (and other backchannels)” to help you avoid that fate.
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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