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Confessions of a MOOC Prof: What I Learned and What I Worry About
Indeed, despite the large dropout rate, MOOCs certainly end up serving a significant number of students. If the initial enrollment in a MOOC is 40,000 and only 4,000 actually complete the course, that’s still a lot of students compared to a…
Arizona State University Partners With Poynter Institute to Offer PT Journalism Faculty…
The Poynter Institute and the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University will launch an innovative online certificate program for adjunct faculty and others who teach journalism and mass…
MIT Summit Looks At The Future of Online Learning
On March 4, 2013 at the MIT Media Lab, MIT and Harvard University, the founders of the online-learning initiative edX, convened a group of academic leaders and other online-learning experts for a daylong summit meeting titled “Online…
Campus Threats Made in Online Courses—What's A Faculty Member To Do?
by Kate Mangu-Ward If a student threatens to shoot his classmates (or himself) on the online message board for his physics class, does that count as a campus threat? That’s just one of the many questions purveyors of massively open online…
Almost 70 Percent of Classroom Faculty Fear The Growth of Online Learning
Over six million students are now taking at least one online course, upping the rate of online enrollment to 10 times that of traditional higher education. Yet, while the world is reveling in free online classes, faculty members are…
What Online Students Say About… Assessment
by Diane J. Goldsmith, Ph.D. Feedback. Feedback. Feedback • Feedback needs to be timely: “Personal communication and prompt feedback on assignments are essential for any course to be a success.” • Feedback should include grades: “Feedback…
Study Concludes Online College Enrollment Growing Exponentially Faster Than Student Population
by Joe McKendrick More than six million college and university students took at least one online course during the fall 2010 term, an increase of 560,000 students over the previous year. This almost 10 percent growth rate for online…
Promoting Collaborative Learning in The Online Environment: How Can Faculty Overcome Challenges?
By Nancy A. Walker, Ph.D. How do adult students benefit from a collaborative learning environment? As an online facilitator/faculty member, we are to foster and support collaboration between students. Needless to say, there are always…
The Future of Online Education Parts I & II
By Rich Russell PART I: The Machine Never Stops My mom said to me recently, “In twenty-five years, none of this will exist.” We were sitting in her office at the place where she has taught for twenty-five years now; where I have taught,…
The Future of Online Education Parts I & II
By Rich Russell PART I: The Machine Never Stops My mom said to me recently, “In twenty-five years, none of this will exist.” We were sitting in her office at the place where she has taught for twenty-five years now; where I have taught,…
