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The instructional delivery mode in distance education has been transitioning from the context of a physical classroom environment to a virtual learning environment or maintaining a hybrid of the two. However, most distance education programs in dual mode institutions are situated in traditional face-to-face instructional settings. Distance education leaders, therefore, operate in a transition mode […]
The primary goal of this study was to identify a wide range of characteristics of college students that may influence their decisions to select online courses. The motivation underlying this study is the realization that online courses are no longer exclusively being taken by non-traditional students (for undergraduates, that would be students age 25 years […]
This article presents findings from a case study related to the risks associated with the choice of traditional, tenure track faculty to teach online. Education offered at a distance via the World Wide Web is on the rise; so too is the demand for university faculty members who will teach those courses. While traditional academic […]
Massachusetts community colleges are exploring how an MITx course will work for their students. Center for Digital Education Full Article
A partnership of UK universities is launching an online project, challenging US universities that have dominated this emerging market. BBC Full Article
“Self-employed professor” could soon be an actual job title, thanks to two companies that are helping a small group of college professors market their own online courses, set prices for them and share the tuition revenue. Inside Higher Ed Full Article
Most classroom models for world language instruction inherently limit the amount of exposure and immersion available to students. The result is frustration coupled with a fundamentally limited world language experience. Armed with a new model for online language courses, BYU Independent Study(BYU-IS) has set out to change that. Campus Technology Full Article
Moocs – massive online open courses – have taken off in America. Why are UK universities holding back? The Guardian Full Article
Farhad (Fred) Saba, Ph. D. Founder and Editor, Distance-Educator.com The cost of going to college has steadily increased in the past three decades at a rate of 5% to 10% a year. This increase has been faster than the general rate of inflation, which has been pegged to 3% a year on average. At the […]
As a profession, librarians have an important and unique role to play in higher education in producing information literate students equipped to be successful in a complex, twenty-first century global society. It is our contention that our guiding professional information literacy definitions and standards need to be reconsidered in order to remain relevant within the […]