By . Following on from my Contact North webinar on the first five chapters of my book, Teaching in a Digital Age, and my blog post on this yesterday, there were four follow-up questions from the seminar to which I posted written answers. More...
25 octobre 2015
Answering questions about teaching online: assessment and evaluation
Learning, #assessments should be future, context oriented thx @jaycross
By Inge Ignatia de Waard. Sitting in a train heading for The Open University on a rainy day in September (Autumn in the Northern hemisphere). Writing a progress log or Plog as Jay Cross would call it, and it took me ages as I struggled with the use and application of assessing new knowledge. In some ways this plog relates to discussions on the use of testing/assessing which is a reoccurring discussion in education everywhere and online learning in particular. Read more...24 octobre 2015
Radford launches online design thinking program
Design Thinking is an innovative collaborative process for solving complex problems. Designers have been working within this framework for years – only recently have others found it to be successful across a multitude of non-design disciplines. More...
Campuses go online for active shooter training
By Andrew Barbour. In the wake of the mass shooting at Umpqua Community College—and additional slayings on campuses in Texas and Arizona in the days after—university administrators are struggling to square such events with life at their own institutions and the possibility of something similar happening. More...
3 characteristics of successful next-gen online learning
By Kevin Gibbs and Claire Stuve. Today, 82 percent of colleges and universities offer at least several courses online in order to try and provide a transformational opportunity for students who can’t spend six to eight hours a day in a lecture hall. For example, at The University of Toledo, we serve a large number of active duty military who are logging into class from around the world. More...
Why online credits need PSA help
By . Earning online credits, thanks to for-profit mishaps, has earned notoriety with students eager to chip away at a meaningful degree at their own pace. But according to one popular website, it’s not the credits that are the problem. More...
Online courses + time on campus = a new path to an MIT master’s
. MIT announced on Oct. 7 a pilot program allowing learners worldwide to take a semester’s worth of courses in its one-year Supply Chain Management (SCM) master’s program completely online, then complete an MIT master’s degree by spending a single semester on campus. More...
Texas Releases Free Online Courses for High Schoolers
The University of Texas System has released a set of free online courses intended to help high school students prepare for careers in STEM fields and the College Level Examination Program (CLEP) tests. Read more...
23 octobre 2015
Online Ed for the Underserved
By Carl Straumsheim. As the Online Learning Consortium unveiled a $2.5 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to reward digital education initiatives that help underserved students, the organization’s members used last week’s International Conference for Online Learning to explain the challenges of supporting those students online. Read more...
A New Route to Student Aid
By Paul Fain. The U.S. Department of Education today announced an experimental pathway to federal aid for partnerships between colleges and nontraditional providers, including ones that run skills boot camps or offer unaccredited online courses. Read more...
