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As online enrollments outpace industry trends, many colleges are rushing to launch online programs that will attract new students. This has created intense competition in online education, but are colleges successfully meeting the learning demands of students? Find out in Online Learning in Continuing Higher Education, a new report from Learning House and the Association […]
Bob Ubell is Vice Dean Emeritus at the NYU School of Engineering, and Dr. Robert Feldman is Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst – and he is also the Chair of the McGraw-Hill Learning Science Advisory Board. The conversation between Bob and Robert ranges from benefits and criticisms of […]
Aim/Purpose This study examines differences in credit and noncredit users’ learning and usage of the Plant Sciences E-Library (PASSEL, http://passel.unl.edu), a large international, open-source multidisciplinary learning object repository. Background Advances in online education are helping educators to meet the needs of formal academic credit students, as well as informal noncredit learners. Since online learning attracts […]
Alternative credentials pose an increasing threat to the supremacy of the traditional degree as the key that unlocks a career path. But available options and student preferences haven’t solidified, and they’re evolving so quickly that it can be difficult to keep track of the increasingly convoluted market. A new report published last month by two […]
Three months after a terrorist attack in Afghanistan left Jeremy Haynes a paraplegic, he met with a psychologist from the Department of Veterans Affairs. “He asked me what I wanted to do with my life,” said Mr. Haynes, a retired Army major. “I said I wanted to go back to school. He said, ‘Let’s be […]
Number and proportion of college and university students taking classes online grew solidly in 2017, as overall postsecondary enrollments fell. A third of all students now take at least one online course. Inside Higher ED
This exploratory study examines student tagging activity within a five-week social bookmarking unit. Students in six sections of a course were tasked with locating, tagging, and then highlighting and discussing course-related materials using Diigo, a social bookmarking tool. Three different tagging approaches were tested: dictionary only, freestyle only, and dictionary + freestyle. Analysis focused on […]
This study investigates how time intersects with student learning in Canada’s first, and only, Master of Library and Information Studies (MLIS) in an online teaching and learning stream. Thirty-two students responded to a survey that asked about their experiences, perceptions, and challenges after their first year of the program. Descriptive statistics and NVIVO 10 were […]
UOC students could fill half of the Camp Nou football stadium. A total of 51,160 people around the world have chosen the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya to study a bachelor’s degree or a university master’s degree, in other words, an official programme. Specifically, 35,473 have chosen a bachelor’s degree and 15,687, a university master’s degree. […]
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. – Neferteri Strickland was born into the military and has made a career of it. She grew up with two parents in the military and is currently a second lieutenant in the Pennsylvania National Guard. And now she’s getting her master’s degree online from Penn State in the hope of advancing her […]
