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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…
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…
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…
Don’t Poke Me: Professors’ Privacy In The Age Of Facebook
By Rich Russell Before seeing the new movie The Social Network this past weekend, I first read the article on co-founder Mark Zuckerberg in The New Yorker. His own Facebook profile is quoted in the piece: “I am trying to make the…
New Data Reveals Sky-High Default Rates at Career Colleges
by Stephen Burd A day after the U.S. Department of Education released three-year cohort default rates for federal student loans, for-profit college leaders and lobbyists are breathing a sigh of relief. Apparently their investors are too,…
New Data Reveals Sky-High Default Rates at Career Colleges
by Stephen Burd A day after the U.S. Department of Education released three-year cohort default rates for federal student loans, for-profit college leaders and lobbyists are breathing a sigh of relief. Apparently their investors are too,…