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29 octobre 2015

Slides and Resources from My Keynote at The Allen Experience

OLDaily, by Stephen DownesBy Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Slides and Resources from My Keynote at The Allen Experience
Karl Kapp, Kapp Notes, 2015/10/23
Here's a slide presentation that reflects some of the themes I talked about in my own presentation this week. "Don't think like an instructional designer," he advises. More...

29 octobre 2015

Edinburgh University’s updated Manifesto for Teaching Online – 2015

OLDaily, by Stephen DownesBy Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Edinburgh University’s updated Manifesto for Teaching Online – 2015
Jenny Mackness, 2015/10/23
I'm not particularly enamoured of the Edinburgh University's manifesto for teaching online in and of itself, but I really appreciated Jenny Mackness's commentary, which either raises questions about the individual points or, more usefully, offers support and annotations from the literature. More...

27 octobre 2015

Global online college courses: A career booster?

Résultat de recherche d'images pour "washingtonpost logo"By . Four years after the debut of free online courses from elite universities, the statistics on this unprecedented digital outreach to the world are staggering. Coursera, a leading platform for these courses, reports 15 million people globally have registered on the education Web site that distributes free interactive content from 120 institutions. They are not all just browsers and dabblers. The company counts 2.5 million “course completers.”
For comparison, the federal government reports about 17.5 million undergraduates enrolled in all U.S. colleges. More...

26 octobre 2015

The students are online but are the lecturers?

By Stephen Coan. While universities and other tertiary institutions increasingly expand their e-learning and online capacities, they often fail to back up the educational technology with adequate lecturer knowledge to deliver it effectively and sustainably. Read more...

25 octobre 2015

The First Goal Of Online Is Access, Not Education

Evolllution Logo, click to return to homepageBy Charles Dull - Evolllution. The goal of education processes—the primary goal—is to educate students. Online programs, however, were developed to provide access and flexibility to education, not to provide education itself. In many ways, education is a secondary goal in online delivery. More...

25 octobre 2015

Online Program Development in an Era of Rapid Institutional Change (Part 2)

Evolllution Logo, click to return to homepageBy Vincent J. Del Casino Jr - Evolllution. This is the second installment of a two-part series by Vincent Del Casino discussing the key elements behind launching a new online strategy. In the first installment , Del Casino tackled a central question that informs all discussions of going online: Why online? In this conclusion, he discusses the pieces the institution must have in place to ensure the success of its online offerings. More...

25 octobre 2015

Online Education: Enhancing Learning Outcomes for Those Who Serve

Evolllution Logo, click to return to homepageBy John P. Aldrich - Evolllution. Online education has dramatically reshaped the higher education landscape in the United States. 
While there are many similarities between traditional and online education, by design, elements like student demographics, the use of asynchronous learning systems and modes of instructional delivery make online learning markedly different. More...

25 octobre 2015

Online and On Base: Penn State World Campus’s Partnership with the Marines

Evolllution Logo, click to return to homepageBy Ginny Newman - Evolllution. In March, Penn State University announced that it would open a classroom starting in fall 2015 at the Marine Corps Recruit Depot (MCRD) in San Diego, CA. This is the university’s first classroom on a military base, and it was made possible through a partnership between the Marine Corps and the university. More...

25 octobre 2015

MIT introduces credit-based online learning

http://www.tonybates.ca/wp-content/uploads/asssociates.jpgBy . MIT is famous for its non-credit MOOCs, but now, for the first time, it is offering a credit program at least partially online. 
The one year Master in Supply Chain Management will consist of one semester taking online courses and one semester on campus, starting in February, 2016. This will run alongside the existing 10 month on-campus program. The online classes that make up the first semester will cost US$150, while the exam is $400 to $800. The second semester on campus will cost at least half what it costs for the yearlong program, which would mean about another $17,000. More...

25 octobre 2015

Online learning and a knowledge-based economy

http://www.tonybates.ca/wp-content/uploads/asssociates.jpgBy . If you are not Canadian, please bear with me in this post, as although these articles focus on Canada, what I have to say will apply to many other economically advanced countries – and I will get to the online learning bit eventually. More...

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