November 20, 2009
Fate and technology have pummeled many professions since 1963, from bookseller to travel agent to auto worker. But teachers have resisted the powerful forces reorganizing industry. The dream of the teacherless classroom has remained just that.
Today the dream has returned. Thanks to broadening Internet access, advances in multimedia and the market potential of millions of historically underserved learners among the developing world’s youth and the rich world’s adults, modern versions of the doughnut building are flowering globally: systems through which chunks of teaching can be “scaled up,” in business jargon, and beamed to hundreds of thousands worldwide.
[Source: New York Times]
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Posted by Oscar Retterer
November 10, 2009
Plenty of colleges have a presence in Second Life. Pennsylvania State University is taking that a step further. Academic advisers at the university’s online campus are now required to be available for meetings with students in the virtual world every week.
[Source: Chronicle of Higher Education - Wired Campus]
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Posted by Oscar Retterer
November 4, 2009
The famous chief executive has started a management institute at Chancellor University that will offer an affordable, rigorous M.B.A. program. Can a high-profile program backed by a legendary business magnate lure students?
[Source: Chronicle of Higher Education]
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Posted by Oscar Retterer
October 30, 2009
Nearly 12 million post-secondary students in the United States take some or all of their classes online right now. But this number will skyrocket to more than 22 million in the next five years, according to data released recently by research firm Ambient Insight.
[Source: Campus Technology]
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October 21, 2009
After several years of experimenting with “hybrid” Spanish courses that mix online and classroom instruction, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has decided to begin conducting its introductory Spanish course exclusively on the Web.
[Source: Inside Higher Ed]
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October 8, 2009
Brigham Young University Idaho has found a way to combine a Socratic approach with simple technology to create a hybrid lecture that guides students to teach each other. The idea is to ensure that students will always be prepared for class.
[Source: Campus Technology]
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October 5, 2009
In an effort to engage former students with events on campus, Colgate University is using Webcast technology to allow even the most remote alumni to watch and participate when prominent writers visit the school.
The program — called Living Writers — is hosted by the streaming Internet television platform Livestream.
So far there have been two lectures, one by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author Junot Diaz and another by the husband and wife writers John and Carrie Brown. Tim Mansfield, the director of alumni affairs, said 75 people watched the entire lecture virtually.
[Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education - Wired Campus]
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Posted by Oscar Retterer
August 31, 2009
They worry about the quality of online courses, say teaching them takes more effort, and grouse about insufficient support. Yet large numbers of professors still put in the time to teach online. And despite the broad suspicion about quality, a majority of faculty members have recommended online courses to students.
That is the complicated picture that emerges in “The Paradox of Faculty Voices: Views and Experiences With Online Learning,” part of a two-volume national study released today by the Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities—Sloan National Commission on Online Learning.
[Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education]
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Posted by Oscar Retterer
August 20, 2009
A recent 93-page report on online education, conducted by SRI International for the Department of Education, has a starchy academic title, but a most intriguing conclusion: “On average, students in online learning conditions performed better than those receiving face-to-face instruction.”
[Source: The New York Times]
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