Higher Ed Tech News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor. Coursera began offering mentors for 10 of its courses, Class Central reports. For $248, students can receive 1:1 feedback, email and forum support, and live weekly “office hours” with mentors—professionals from industries relevant to each course. More...
MasterClass Raises $15 Million For Online Classes Taught By Celebrities
Higher Ed Tech News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor. MasterClass, a San Francisco-based online education platform that’s luring some of the most talented professionals in their respective fields to teach, has raised $15 million in Series B funding led by New Enterprise Associates. More...
How Online Degree Programs Factor into Higher Ed’s Future
Higher Ed Tech News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor. The Internet has disrupted every sector, and higher education is no exception. Online programs are changing the way students earn degrees at brick-and-mortar colleges and universities. More...
Selected Topics from a Matched Study between a Face-to-face section and a Real-time Online section of a University Course
Two sections of an interpersonal skills building university course were observed for the purposes of this matched study. The face-to-face (F2F) section was in a classroom on the Concordia University campus in Montreal, Canada, while the non-turn-taking real-time online section used a Web application, LBD eClassroom© designed specifically for highly interactive large size classes and meetings. More...
Navigating Distance and Traditional Higher Education: Online faculty experiences
The academic culture of higher educational institutions is characterized by specific pedagogical philosophies, assumptions about rewards and incentives, and values about how teaching is delivered. In many academic settings, however, the field of distance education has been viewed as holding marginal status. More...
Increasing Access to Higher Education: A study of the diffusion of online teaching among 913 college faculty
Online learning environments provide an unprecedented opportunity to increase student access to higher education. Accomplishing this much needed goal requires the active participation and cooperation of university faculty from a broad spectrum of institutional settings. Although online learning has seen rapid growth in recent years, it remains a relatively small percentage of the entire curriculum of higher education today. More...
IRRODL (International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning) - Vol 6, No 2 (2005)
Editorial
Introducing IRRODL's Regional Editors: Building the pathway to a global village of open and distance Education literature
Terry Anderson, Paula Smith
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Research Articles
An Assessment of the Academic Achievement of Students in Two Modes of Part-time Programme in Nigeria
Kola Adeyemi, Austin Osunde
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Peter Shea, Alexandra Pickett, Chun Sau Li
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Colla J. MacDonald, Terrie Lynn Thompson
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Alice G. Yick, Pam Patrick, Amanda Costin
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Mia Lobel, Michael Neubauer, Randy Sweburg
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Elizabeth Murphy, Justyna Ciszewska-Carr
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Book Notes
Reflections on Research, Faculty and Leadership in Distance Education
Don Olcott, Jr.
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Distance Education and Technology: Issues and Practice
Erin Keough
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Learner Support in Open, Distance and Online Learning Environments
Stacey Ludwig
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Technical Notes
Wiki Products: a comparison
Carl Challborn
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Rubrics and Exemplars in Text-conferencing
Allan Zahara
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Learning Objects and Instructional Design
Brian Harvey
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Optimizing Conferencing Freeware
Jon Baggaley, Jim Klaas, Norine Wark, Jim Depow
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CIDER Notes
Research on Formal Virtual Learning Communities in Higher Education
Richard Schwier
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Content Analysis of Online Asynchronous Discussions
Elizabeth Murphy
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Learning Object Repository Network (LORNet)
France Henri
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Investigating How Technology Innovation is Decided and Implemented in a Interorganizational Collaboration
Genevieve Gallant
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Affect as a Presence in the Community of Inquiry Model
Prisca Campbell, Martha Cleveland-Innes
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e-Learning 2.0
Stephen Downes
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Games as Learning Environments: Research strategies and issues
Jim Bizzocchi
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Full Issue
IRRODL Volume 6, Number 2
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1-150
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Udemy thinks it’s cracked the future of online education
Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. On the advice of my new writing instructor, I’m penning this story with a focus on clarity, eliminating what he calls “fuzzy thinking.” More...
The death of “online” learning in higher ed
Remaining Residential
By Carl Straumsheim. Study suggests acceptance of online education still lags among high school students. Read more...