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Jana Döring

Going the Distance: Online Education in the United States, 2011 - 0 views

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    Survey about Online Education in the USA ("leading barometer ") -nearly one third of students in higher education take at least one online course ( 6 Million) -wide variety in rate of growth of online programs in different universities and programs (for example: health science online programs are more developed than many other disciplines) -The 10% growth rate for online enrollments far exceeds 2% growth in the overall higher education student population -Academic leaders believe that the level of student satisfaction is equivalent for online and face-to-face courses -65% of universities think that online education is critical part of future plans there still exists a consistent minority of academic leaders that doubt the quality of online courses in contrast to face-to-face courses
Jana Döring

"Mapping the terrain of Online Education" by Kenneth C. Green - 0 views

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    Summary of the two surveys " 2010 Sloan Consortium Report" and "Managing Online Education (MOE) survey" -use of online courses rises (more increase in future expected) -institutions make money on online education,others uncertain of profitability -students take "traditional" courses online -restructuring of universities´ online program are happening -> triggered by budget issues and change in leadership ... -objective assesment (comparison) of online/traditional courses not possible -half of faculties who teach online must complete a mandatory training program (for students?, 22 hours) -> awarness that online education is different from traditional education "Managing Online Education (MOE) survey" : http://www.campuscomputing.net/item/2010-managing-online-education-survey-wvideo%20
Oliver Janoschka

Course Signals - Stoplights for Student Success - 0 views

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    "Purdue University's Course Signals application detects early warning signs and provides intervention to students who may not be performing to the best of their abilities before they reach a critical point."
Jana Döring

Class Differences: Online Education in the United States, 2010 | The Sloan Consortium - 0 views

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    Report about online Education in the United States -Rising number of students using online education/online courses -for-profit universities see online education critically -universities report that economic crisis increases demand for face-to-face courses and online courses -The 21%growth rate for online enrollments far exceeds the 2% growth in the overall higher education student population Jana
Oliver Janoschka

How Web-Savvy Edupunks Are Transforming American Higher Education | Fast Company - 0 views

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    "How Web-Savvy Edupunks Are Transforming American Higher Education By Anya Kamenetz | September 1, 2009 Free online courses, Wiki universities, Facebook-style tutoring networks -- American higher education is changing."
Oliver Janoschka

Coursera.org - 0 views

Oliver Janoschka

How a course-rich world might impact higher education: II. Creating new institutions - ... - 0 views

  • However, the best learning outcomes came from approaches which involve some relatively small face-to-face classroom experience to support the primary online component.
  • However, this suggests that the high value, high cost end of the productivity frontier likely will be formed by products that use some form of blended approach or social media approaches that mimic the benefits of the blended approach
Emily Peach

Alt-Ed: What Are Open Badges ? - 0 views

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    Alt-Ed is devoted to documenting significant initiatives relating to Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), digital badges, and similar alternative educational initiatives.
Oliver Janoschka

elearnspace › The future of higher education and other imponderables - 0 views

  • HomeAboutThe future of higher education and other imponderablesWe will be running an open online course from Oct 8-Nov 16, 2012, addressing some of the concepts in this post. Registration is free (duh). The discussion below is part of a proposed text with Johns Hopkins University Press that I’m co-authoring with Dave Cormier and Bonnie Stewart.
  • I’m also presenting on the topic of systemic change at the 2012 Campus Technology conference in Boston in July, so change in education is front of mind these days (actually, the first two years of my phd were on higher education change before I shifted my focus).
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