The Department took those suggestions, and will be providing institutions with greater regulatory flexibility to design and test new approaches to student financial aid designed to meet the need of these students through several new experiments that will:
Enable students to earn federal student aid based on how much they learn, rather than the amount of time they spend in class by providing federal aid to students enrolled in self-paced competency-based education programs.
Provide flexibility for an institution to provide a mix of direct assessment coursework and credit hour coursework in the same program.
Allow the use of federal student aid to pay for prior learning assessments, which can allow students—including returning adults or veterans—to decrease their time to get a degree.
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Update: LMS Usage In Large Online Programs (Top 50 in US) - - 1 views
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Helpful as we look at an LMS search By Phil HillMore Posts (434) By: Phil Hill and Justin Menard. Cross-posted at LISTedTECH Three and a half years ago Phil wrote a post "Snapshot of LMS Market for Large Online Programs in the US" giving a view into this ... Continue reading →
For Students Taking Online Courses, a Completion Paradox - 0 views
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Researchers ponder the finding that at community colleges, online classes result in lower grades but more completed degrees.
HostMath - Online LaTeX formula editor and browser-based math equation editor - 0 views
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Pretty cool online LaTeX editor that seems to be MUCH more intuitive than other options. Might be something we could use for having students 'enter' equations as answers so the math quizzes aren't 100% multiple choice?
U.S. Department of Education Expands Innovation in Higher Education through the Experim... - 0 views
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Institutions that apply for and are granted these limited waivers would be able to have more flexibility over a portion of their federal student aid in order to implement experiments suggested by colleges, universities and the higher education community. Applications for the new experiments will be due in late September
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Department is also announcing today that it will collaborate with the Department of Labor to develop a $25 million grant competition for an Online Skills Academy to support the development of a platform to enable high-quality, free or low-cost pathways to degrees, certificates, or other employer-recognized credentials
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Photo Editor | Polarr - Online Photo Editor. Now support RAW photo editing. - 0 views
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A new, and free, online photo editor. Currently in development.
ANU Online Coffee Courses - 0 views
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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?
Annual survey shows online college students increasingly choosing to study close to home - 0 views
Tools for creating community in online classrooms (opinion) - 0 views
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idea - ask students what they are listening to and create a Spotify playlist.
9 Proven Ways for Instructors to Address Online Student Retention - TeachOnline - 1 views
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Includes citations that could be helpful as we develop our retention series.
Slides - The easiest way to create and share beautiful presentations. - 0 views
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Interesting tool to create online presentations.
Anthologize - 1 views
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"Use the power of WordPress to transform online content into an electronic book."
WAMOE! Join our Web Accessibility MOOC - Brightspace Community - 0 views
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With registration opening today (Sept. 29, 2014) on D2L Open Courses, the Web Accessibility MOOC for Online Educators, or #WAMOE, is designed to help e-Learning professionals meet the challenges of compliance with the web accessibility requirements as they pertain to electronic learning environments.
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There are weekly modules that are designed to help you improve your web accessibility skills specifically for teaching online
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Free MOOC designed to help e-learning professionals meet the challenges of compliance with web accessibility requirements as they pertain to electronic learning requirements.
Dealing With Your Online Teaching Challenges | GradHacker @insidehighered - 0 views
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