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How to Improve Public Online Education: Report Offers a Model - Government - The Chroni... - 0 views

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online administration models

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  • Public colleges and universities, which educate the bulk of all American college students, have been slower than their counterparts in the for-profit sector to embrace the potential of online learning to offer pathways to degrees.
  • continuum of organizational levels
  • low end of the spectrum, course availability, pricing, transferability of credit, and other issues are all determined at the institutional level, by colleges, departments, or individual professors, resulting in a patchwork collection of online courses that's difficult for students to navigate.
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  • Step 2, institutions further collaborate through shared contracts on resources, like learning-management systems
  • The first step is for state institutions to collaborate to establish a searchable clearinghouse of online courses and degree
  • report identifies five cumulative steps that build toward State U Online and gives an example of a state or system at each step
  • Step 3, systems also provide shared student-support services, such as advising, that can be used by students at all institutions in the system,
  • Step 4, an entire state, or a system of public higher-education institutions within the state, achieves all the previous levels of collaboration and in addition makes it easy for students to transfer credit among institutions.
  • enroll in a program at their "home" institution, but can easily take classes at any institution within the consortium.
  • Step 5 carries that concept beyond state borders. Students can take courses at any institution in such a multistate consortium and not worry about whether their credits will transfer, because institutional agreements within the consortium make that automatic.
  • offers practical suggestions about concerns like building sustainable revenue streams that are less dependent on allocations from legislatures, and on providing incentives and support for faculty members to offer online courses.
wlampner

3 Universities Will Grant Credit for 2U's Online Courses - Wired Campus - The Chronicle... - 0 views

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online collaboration elearning

shared by wlampner on 30 Jul 13 - No Cached
  • First, the courses will be taught entirely online—an option that Southern Methodist has never before offered to undergraduates.
  • taught by professors at other universities
  • ourses, offered through the online-education company 2U, will come from a consortium of colleges participating in 2U’s Semester Online program
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  • will allow Southern Methodist to see how well online courses work for its students without committing resources to building its own
  • students will be allowed to take a maximum of four courses through 2U
  • prevent cannibalizing enrollment from its own courses
  • will allow each student to take only one Semester Online course this fall
  • courses have already passed through a faculty review.
  • during their time at Southern Methodist
  • U has increasingly pitched itself as the anti-MOOC online provider.
  • teach the courses live, via Webcam, to virtual classrooms of no more than 20 students.
  • 4,200 per student per course.
  • purposefully exclusive.
  • teaching institutions supply high-quality courses, while the affiliates supply high-quality students.
wlampner

IFAP - Dear Colleague Letters - 0 views

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elearning elearning_financialaid fraud

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  • wlampner on 12 Jun 13
     
    he purpose of this letter is to provide guidance to address potential fraud in the Federal student aid programs at institutions of higher education that offer distance education programs. This letter provides an overview of the fraud schemes that the Department's Inspector General (IG) detected, and recommends immediate steps that institutions can take to detect and prevent fraud. In this letter, we also describe further actions that institutions can take and that the Federal government is committed to taking, including increasing technical assistance to institutions of higher education, the convening of a Department-wide task force on distance education fraud, and plans for recommending legislative and regulatory changes to address the relevant issues.
Patrick Tabatcher

The Educator's Guide to Copyright, Fair Use, and Creative Commons | The Edublogger - 0 views

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copyright media-resources

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  • Patrick Tabatcher on 24 Apr 13
     
    Information on copyright and fair use. Good list of sites that offer free (open source or copyright free) media.
wlampner

Pedagogical Repository - 1 views

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faculty_training

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  • wlampner on 06 Jul 16
     
    The University of Central Florida's (UCF) Center for Distributed Learning (CDL) offers the Teaching Online Pedagogical Repository (TOPR) as a public resource for faculty and instructional designers interested in online and blended teaching strategies. Each entry describes a strategy drawn from the pedagogical practice of online/blended teaching faculty, depicts this strategy with artifacts from actual courses, and is aligned with findings from research or professional practice literature. From Wendy - we may want to encourage our faculty to use this, but this also provides an opportunity for them to contribute their own practices.
wlampner

The Price Is Still Right: 15 Sites for Free Digital Textbooks -- Campus Technology - 0 views

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OER

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  • wlampner on 06 Feb 17
     
    "The following list offers 15 sources of quality digital content to use in your courses without worrying about the price tag. "
Teresa Potter

Ohio Community Colleges Announce Partnership with Western Governors University | Wester... - 0 views

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CBE

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  • he Ohio Association of Community Colleges (OACC) today announced a new partnership with Western Governors University (WGU) that allows Ohio community college graduates to seamlessly transfer their coursework to WGU while also receiving discounted tuition to the accredited, online university.
  • WGU will:
  • Offer Ohio community colleges’ graduates and staff a five percent 5% tuition discount.
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  • Prepare seamless associate degree to bachelor degree articulation agreements for all related degree programs in education, business, Information Technology and health professions.
  • Create a 3+1 transfer option for OACC colleges’ nursing graduates who possess an Ohio RN license and are employed as a nurse.
  • Graduates and staff of OACC colleges will also be eligible to apply for scholarships offered through the WGU Institutional Partner Fund.
  • OACC college nursing graduates who are eligible for the 3+1 program may also enroll in the MS, Nursing bridge programs, in nursing education or nursing leadership and management. The BS, Nursing degree is awarded to the 3+2 student as they progress toward the MS, Nursing degree.
Kristine Howard

600.9a1i - 0 views

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State_auth

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  • Kristine Howard on 27 Sep 12
     
    (c) If an institution is offering postsecondary education through distance or correspondence education to students in a State in which it is not physically located or in which it is otherwise subject to State jurisdiction as determined by the State, the institution must meet any State requirements for it to be legally offering postsecondary distance or correspondence education in that State.
Kristine Howard

600.9c Electronic Code of Federal Regulations: - 0 views

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State_auth

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  • Kristine Howard on 27 Sep 12
     
    (c) If an institution is offering postsecondary education through distance or correspondence education to students in a State in which it is not physically located or in which it is otherwise subject to State jurisdiction as determined by the State, the institution must meet any State requirements for it to be legally offering postsecondary distance or correspondence education in that State.
wlampner

Howard U. Will Expand Its Online Offerings - Wired Campus - The Chronicle of Higher Edu... - 0 views

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elearning partnerships Pearson

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  • wlampner on 07 Aug 13
     
    Howard will be partnering with Pearson for their online programs.
wlampner

Lumen Learning - Courseware: Candela - 0 views

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OER open_courseware

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  • wlampner on 22 Sep 15
     
    "Candela courseware from Lumen Learning provides an extremely low cost e-textbook alternative to expensive commercial textbooks in high enrollment college courses. Designed using open educational resources (OER), Candela courses offer much more than just an OER textbook. The Catalog includes OER-based courses for 50+subjects focusing on high enrollment courses students typically take during the first two years of college.
Patrick Tabatcher

JavaScript Charts | amCharts - 2 views

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infographics interactive-content chartbuilder charts

shared by Patrick Tabatcher on 16 Sep 15 - No Cached
  • Patrick Tabatcher on 16 Sep 15
     
    Cool tool to do pretty charts in web pages. The company also offers some nice looking mapping tools.
wlampner

Public Health Leadership Program courses offered || UNC Gillings School of Global Publi... - 0 views

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TPG_Grant health content

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  • wlampner on 18 Mar 15
     
    syllabii for 3 spanish for health care courses
wlampner

Brandman University, CBE pioneer, offers advice on program development | Education Dive - 0 views

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CBE Faculty_Roles

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  • volving the role of faculty — Brandman has traditional faculty who build the curriculum as well as tutorial faculty who teach, another group who grades, and another, non-faculty, group responsible for monitoring student activity and engagement.
  • wlampner on 03 Mar 16
     
     evolving the role of faculty - Brandman has traditional faculty who build the curriculum as well as tutorial faculty who teach, another group who grades, and another, non-faculty, group responsible for monitoring student activity and engagement.
wlampner

Cengage offers new OER-based product for general education courses - 1 views

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OER

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  • Cengage predicts that the use of OER -- free, adaptable educational course materials -- could triple over the next five years
  • eady to “embrace the movement” -- adding their own services and technology to create “value-added digital solutions that help institutions use OER to its best advantage.”
  • aking OER materials freely available online from sites such as OpenStax, Cengage has added its own assessments, content and technology to the materials, which will be delivered through an “intuitive, outcomes-based” platform that can be integrated into students’ learning management systems
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  • psychology, American government and sociology, and more courses in science, economics and the humanities will be available this fall.
  • some materials that were previously under a Cengage copyright, will be registered under an open CC-BY license so that institutions can adapt and customize the content
  • But for those who want to use the OpenNow platform, fees start at $25 per student per course. “The $25 is for the delivery of content that’s aligned to assessment and learning objectives, the additional assessments and videos we either curated or created, and the outcomes-based platform with personalization and analytics
  • many problems faced by traditional publishers -- how to reduce prices, how to enable customers to customize content, how to ensure students have their materials on the first day of class -- were problems that OER can solve. “So why not use OER to solve them?
  • s OER has gained momentum, more and more companies want to attach themselves to the idea of being open. But for each product that’s launched, we need to keep asking questions. Is it really open, or is it just being branded as open? Open is not just a set of attributes, it’s a set of values and practices that make education better.”
wlampner

"Individualized learning environments are still a long way off" - 0 views

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NGDLE

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  • Creating content is an involved process. You can’t simply take a textbook, perhaps in digital form, and load it into a learning management system, bit by bit. The material needs to be organized by degree of difficulty and learning objectives. It has to be grouped into modules and tagged to identify the information that is intended for experts, the material students are expected to learn, and the material that is primarily meant to provoke thought.
  • Students need to be able to rate content and view others’ ratings and reviews.
  • he system might determine early on that a given student will find it difficult to pass a test. It could then offer materials to enhance that student’s understanding.
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  • privacy regulations are an obstacle
  • he material needs to be organized by degree of difficulty and learning objectives. It has to be grouped into modules and tagged to identify the information that is intended for experts, the material students are expected to learn, and the material that is primarily meant to provoke thought.
  • Students need to be able to rate content and view others’ ratings and reviews.
  • he system might determine early on that a given student will find it difficult to pass a test. It could then offer materials to enhance that student’s understanding.
  • How well the team works together is also assessed.
  • But if I have upwards of 5,000 students, a certain dynamism is created. Suddenly I have 100 or 200 people in the “first row of the lecture hall” who are very active and serve to motivate the rest of the group. It’s fascinating to see how that works in the online environment.
wlampner

ANU Online Coffee Courses - 0 views

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workshop faculty_training

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    "Coffee courses are an easy way to learn new ideas for using technology in your teaching. Each coffee course will cover a new topic in education technology, teaching online, digital tools, pedagogy, or trends in technology. It is equivalent to a one- or two-hour face-to-face training session, but is done at your own pace from your own desk. Courses are offered regularly through the blog, and take place over one week. Each day while the course runs, a short activity or video will be posted to the blog for you to do. It should take about 15 - 20 minutes, just enough time to enjoy a cup of coffee (or tea, or whatever you prefer). For more information, please see this post about coffee courses. You can do any course at any time and all are welcome to participate. If you would like recognition on your employment record for completing the course, you can register for the session on HORUS prior to the course starting (available for ANU staff only)." From Wendy: I love the blog idea! Participants from their University can review each course and post a substantive comment to the blog in order to get the certificate. We could do this with workshop. It would help ensure faculty are really learning, since their posts would be public. Thoughts? Also note that all of their content is posted with a CC-BY license in case there's something we can use. It's also a model we can follow?
Kristine Howard

Gainful Employment (IFAP - Dear Colleague Letters) - 0 views

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gainful_employment

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  • Kristine Howard on 27 Sep 12
     
    related to the GE aspect of the Program Integrity rules. Publication Date: April 20, 2011 Subject: Implementation of Regulatory Requirements Related to Gainful Employment Programs Summary: This letter provides guidance on new requirements for institutions that offer educational programs that prepare students for gainful employment in a recognized occupation. Dear Colleague: Final regulations published in the Federal Register on October 29, 2010, [75 FR 66665 and FR 66832], by the U.S.
Kristine Howard

2010 Federal Regulations on State Approval of Out-of-State Providers | wcet.wiche.edu - 0 views

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State_auth

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  • Kristine Howard on 27 Sep 12
     
    good for lay of the land. Last Updated: September 7, 2012 (details at bottom of page). State Authorization--An Introduction On October 29, 2010, the U.S. Department of Education (USDOE) released new "program integrity" regulations. One of the regulations focused on the need for institutions offering distance or correspondence education to acquire authorization from any state in which it "operates."
wlampner

Trump administration official describes plan to 'rethink' higher education through upco... - 0 views

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online CBE federal_rules

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  • epartment wants to drop a standardized definition for academic course work, known as the credit hour, that the Obama administration rewrote in 2010 to curb credit inflation
  • re-examination of requirements for online education
  • faculty interaction and state authorization rules
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  • evaluating rules for competency-based education and the outsourcing of academic programs to nonaccredited providers
  • ccreditors have clamored for the department to get rid of the credit-hour definition, complaining it is difficult for them to track. Officials from some colleges, particularly those offering competency-based programs, have argued that the standard makes it difficult to comply with federal aid requirements.
  • The credit hour probably interferes with innovation almost more than anything
  • biggest providers of nontraditional education today -- online colleges -- have far more data on faculty instruction and student engagement than any other type of institution. And accreditors, she said, would come up with new ways to evaluate academic workloads based on that data.
  • department will propose that negotiators discuss federal rules for the outsourcing of portions of academic programs to nonaccredited or noncollege providers
  • Currently, no more than half of a program can be administered by an outside entity, such as an online program management (OPM) company
  • uild on lessons being learned from an Obama-era experiment to allow such partnerships to receive federal aid, dubbed the EQUIP program
  • e department wants to put more of an onus on colleges to justify not taking transfer credit,
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