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A Taking Stock Report from Public Agenda Online education holds the promise to increase access and decrease cost of higher education. Yet many community college students and employers remain skeptical about the value of online learning, according to our recent research. “Not Yet Sold” raises important questions for the future of online education, even as […]
Park University has utilized some type of formalized evaluation of their online adjunct instructors for eight years. For the past five years Park has utilized the Faculty Online Observation (FOO) for the annual observation of all online adjunct instructors for at least one course. A key to success is consistency and cohesion of […]
Over the last year, the concept of digital badges has been gaining momentum in states and school district initiatives across the country. But thanks to a new standard, emerging technology experts are calling digital badges the next ‘disruptive’ technology—not only for students, but for teachers and administrators, as well. eSchool News Full Article
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology will this fall package some of its online courses into more cohesive sequences, just as edX prepares to roll out certificates of completion using identity verification. Seen together, the two announcements may provide a glimpse at what the future holds for the massive open online course provider. Inside Higher Ed […]
Personalized Learning is a self-paced, competency-based program with a high level of assessment that producesmore graduates in less time and at a lower cost, since students with developmental deficiencies can take free modules to address those before admission. The student experience allows students to skip lessons they already know and progress more quickly through material with which they have more familiarity, leading to a reduced cost for students […]
The board that governs California’s 112 community colleges has started requiring that courses, research, and other work paid for by the system chancellor’s office be made available free to all users under Creative Commons “attribution” licenses. While the system will retain the copyright on the materials, other users will be able to take advantage of […]
With financing from the National Science Foundation, a San Jose State University research team has taken a close look at a high-profile experiment in which the institution offered “augmented” online courses last spring in partnership with the online-learning company Udacity. The team released its long-awaited report late Wednesday, and it contains many more tables than […]
Twenty-first-century learners have expectations that are not met within the current model of higher education. With the introduction of online learning, the anytime/anywhere mantra taken up by many postsecondary institutions was a first step to meeting learner needs for flexibility; however, the choice and determination of delivery mode still resides with the institution and course […]
Recent developments in massive open online courses (MOOCs) have brought renewed attention to online learning, but most of the attention has been centered on courses offered through platforms such as Coursera and edX. This paper focuses on the importance of examining alternative, large-scale learning initiatives that promote more participatory modes of education production and delivery. […]
Connectivist massive open online courses (cMOOCs) represent an important new pedagogical approach ideally suited to the network age. However, little is known about how the learning experience afforded by cMOOCs is suited to learners with different skills, motivations, and dispositions. In this study, semi-structured interviews were conducted with 29 participants on the Change11 cMOOC. These […]