The Invisible Professor and the Future of Virtual Faculty
The Sloan Consortium’s latest report, (“Making the Grade: Online Education in the United States 2006â€) estimates that 850,000 more students took online courses in fall 2005 than 2004, an increase of almost 40 percent. Although the online teaching continues to grow in popularity, it places greater demands on faculty than traditional courses. The Sloan report found that this problem exists at all levels of postsecondary education, from doctoral-granting institutions to community colleges.