by Evelyn Beck HOW ARE EMPLOYERS judging the value of the courses we’re teaching on-line? What do they think of candidates whose entire degree was earned via the…
Going the Distance
by Evelyn Beck THOSE OF US who teach on-line courses may not be the ones who revolutionized education, but we are among those leading the way as the…
by Evelyn Beck IT’S NOT EASY, mostly due to student resistance, but online group projects can be undertaken successfully. And if they’re handled well, the experience can mirror real kinds…
by Evelyn Beck IN VIRTUAL SCIENCE labs, students can handle dangerous poisons, analyze raging rivers, and conduct experiments in evolution-activities otherwise impossible for most college students. “The…
by Evelyn Beck ATTRITION RATES FOR most distance education programs are worse than for traditional college courses, with dropout rates as high as 80 percent at some…
by Chris Cumo THE IDYLLIC UNIVERSITY has ivory-laced buildings, sprawling greens, and vast oaks through which light bathes the campus in a gentle sheen. Its nucleus is the…
Almost half of adults in the U.S., 47%, think online education is of roughly the same quality as in-person instruction, increasing sharply from about a third who…
by Greg Toppo Anyone who crossed their fingers hoping the college fall term would go smoothly received a harsh dose of reality: Despite images of crowded football stadiums and…
by Robert Danisch The modern research university was designed to produce new knowledge and to pass that knowledge on to students. North American universities over the last 100 years…
by Kyungmee Lee The past months have seen increasing numbers of schools and universities across the world announce that they are moving to online-only learning. Hundreds of…
