By Laurie Carbo-Porter. Experts from Excelsior College discuss the endless opportunities for faculty and students to come together to address global issues thanks to distance learning. More...
29 octobre 2016
29 octobre 2016
Got content? This new online community does
By Laura Devaney. Rice University-based publisher OpenStax is partnering with OER Commons to create new online community hubs where instructors can freely share and modify syllabuses, homework, study guides and other open-copyright course materials that are made specifically for each of the free textbooks in OpenStax’s growing catalog. More...
29 octobre 2016
3 ways to set students up for success in an online course
By Jarrod Morgan. According to the 2015 Survey of Online Learning, there was an 3.9 percent increase in the number of higher education students taking at least one online course. More...
28 octobre 2016
California's new playbook for online education
Submitted by Tim Goral. Among the dismal track records for statewide online higher education initiatives, California’s is unquestionably the worst. It started in 1997 when California Virtual University was established by UC, CSU, the California Community College system, and independent colleges as a clearinghouse for existing online course offerings. More...
22 octobre 2016
Online and Homegrown
By Ashley A. Smith. California community colleges unveil online program that allows students to take courses across multiple campuses, a project that replaced a failed attempt to tap for-profit online course providers to meet student demand. Read more...
21 octobre 2016
Silicon Valley online course to mint self-driving car engineers
Higher Ed Tech News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor. Silicon Valley is creating a crash course in self-driving car technology to address a shortage of engineers with help from a startup in a different field: online education. More...
21 octobre 2016
Is Online Learning the Future of Further Education?
Higher Ed Tech News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor. Leading universities will offer fully accredited undergraduate degrees online within the next five years, according to the founder of educational platform Coursera. More...
21 octobre 2016
Americans fall along a spectrum of preparedness to pursue learning online
Higher Ed Tech News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor. In this report, we use newly released Pew Research Center survey findings to address a related issue: digital readiness. The new analysis explores the attitudes and behaviors that underpin people’s preparedness and comfort in using digital tools for learning as we measured it in a survey about people’s activities for personal learning. More...
21 octobre 2016
Weaknesses of online and face-to-face learning
Higher Ed Tech News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor. “People today like to access a smartphone which apparently we do 200 or 300 times a day. More...
21 octobre 2016
Scriyb: A new live streaming tool for online learning
Higher Ed Tech News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor. Scriyb is different from other online class tools in that it uses live streaming video and allows interaction through a moderated chat room, where students can interact with each other, and a teacher can guide his or her lecture by seeing responses from the students. More...
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