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April 30, 2020

Determining Carnegie Units: Student Engagement in Online Courses Without a Residential Equivalent

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Katherine M. Adler, OJDLA

Carnegie Units (CU) quantify the time spent by students in and out of class in terms of content engagement. The rule states that for every one hour spent in a face-to-face setting, students spend an additional two hours of study time or engagement with the material). For colleges offering both online and residential courses with the same content, equating the time online students spend with course content is not difficult – the Registrar aligns online courses with their residentially offered matches. However, what does a college do when 100% of its courses are offered online, with no onsite match? What follows is a discussion of how one college ensured and quantified engagement in online courses.

https://www.westga.edu/~distance/ojdla/spring231/Adler231.html

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South Korea’s Coronavirus-Era Online Learning Hits Snag

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Tae-jun Kang, the Diplomat

About 5.4 million elementary, middle, and high school students in South Korea are starting an unprecedented school year via distance learning as the country strives to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic. Both schools and students, however, are already experiencing confusion and difficulties, with many pointing out that the country’s education authorities failed to come up with a concrete plan and measures to carry out online classes effectively.

https://thediplomat.com/2020/04/south-koreas-coronavirus-era-online-learning-hits-snag/

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7 mental health resources to help college students during the coronavirus pandemic

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LAURA ASCIONE, eCampus News
The coronavirus has closed campuses across the globe, and many students may need help regulating their mental health and dealing with anxiety. Colleges and universities across the globe have closed campuses and moved instruction online in an attempt to stop community spread of the novel coronavirus. Many students find themselves back home with family, quarantining while their campuses remain physically shut down. Others may be out of work and worrying about finances on top of attending online classes. Still others are international students who might not be able to return home. According to researchers at the University of California, Irvine, many people experience psychological distress resulting from repeated media exposure to the crisis.

https://www.ecampusnews.com/2020/04/14/7-mental-health-resources-to-help-college-students-during-the-coronavirus-pandemic/

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April 29, 2020

5 Easy Ways to Infuse Learning Science into Remote Teaching

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Andrea Hendricks, Campus Technology

These practices will help engage students and improve outcomes throughout the online learning process. Here are five practices that have transformed the way I engage students and maximize outcomes throughout the learning process, all of which are relevant whether you’re teaching in a traditional classroom environment or remotely.

https://campustechnology.com/articles/2020/04/15/5-easy-ways-to-infuse-learning-science-into-remote-teaching.aspx

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Educators can adjust online classes to fit learning styles

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Shawna De La Rosa, Education Dive

Educators must balance many learning preferences as students adjust to online learning, which will be a good fit for some and difficult for others, District Administration reports. Some students will struggle with change and others will have a hard time dealing with isolation.  A paper by the University of Illinois Springfield lays out four styles of learners and how educators can adapt online curriculum accordingly. The visual/verbal learner, for example, does best when information is presented through visual aids, textbooks and class notes. They prefer to study in quiet environments, and the online environment is particularly well-suited to them.

https://www.educationdive.com/news/educators-can-adjust-online-classes-to-fit-learning-styles/576054/

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What if immunity to covid-19 doesn’t last?

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Antonio Regalad, MIT Technology Review

Researchers say people can catch mild, cold-causing coronaviruses twice in the same year. For the coronaviruses “immunity seems to wane quickly,” says Jeffrey Shaman, who carried out the research with Marta Galanti, a postdoctoral researcher. The big question is what this fizzling, short-lived resistance to common cold viruses means for covid-19. Is there a chance the disease will turn into a killer version of the common cold, constantly out there, infecting 10% or 20% of the population each year, but also continuing to kill one in a hundred? If so, it would amount to a plague capable of shaving the current rate of world population growth by a tenth.

https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/04/27/1000569/how-long-are-people-immune-to-covid-19/

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April 28, 2020

Insights on Adapting to a Virtual Learning Environment from the President of Southern New Hampshire University

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Harvard Business Review

Honestly, online education was not as good ten years ago as it is today. That makes sense. But now we have robust tools and technologies and a lot of years of experience, and the best online programs are as good as or better than their traditional face-to-face counterparts. Our students typically work, have families, and are trying to make education fit into their busy lives. They readily embrace online learning because it is convenient, and then they discover that it is powerful and effective and they are won over. Around 95% of our graduates say they were “satisfied” or “very satisfied” with their experience and would recommend our programs to friends and co-workers.  As we live our lives increasingly in virtual spaces, this challenge has lessened across the board.

https://hbr.org/sponsored/2020/04/insights-on-adapting-to-a-virtual-learning-environment-from-the-president-of-southern-new-hampshire-university

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The Best Free Resources for Students Learning at Home

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Android Authority

With the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and school closures across the globe, learning at home is currently the new norm. The great news is that whether your or your child’s school offers distance classes or not, there are a ton of online learning resources you can utilize. The choice might be a bit overwhelming thanks to the sheer number of study materials and courses, but we are here to help! We have compiled a list of the best free online learning resources for students of all ages.

https://www.androidauthority.com/free-learning-resources-1101787/

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Coursera Launches CourseMatch, A New Tool In Its Coronavirus Response Initiative

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Michael T. Nietzel, Forbes
Coursera, the online learning platform and one of the pioneers of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCS), announced today that it was launching CourseMatch, a machine learning solution that will automatically match Coursera courses to on-campus courses at colleges and universities across the globe. Coursera has activated more than 2,600 programs for colleges and universities around the world. But with the large demand came a problem – as more universities went live with Coursera offerings, they needed a solution that would identify courses on Coursera that most closely matched the courses in their own on-campus catalogues.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaeltnietzel/2020/04/15/coursera-launches-coursematch-a-new-tool-in-its-coronavirus-response-initiative/#1397c74a1b03

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April 27, 2020

Boston University Outlines COVID-19 Recovery Plan

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Art Jahnke, BU Today

Two days after the University announced that all in-person summer activities on the Charles River Campus had been canceled, President Robert A. Brown unveiled a plan to refocus COVID-19 discussions on the future, specifically on ways that BU can return to in-person, on-campus operations later this year. The University’s COVID-19 Recovery Plan, described Thursday by Brown, tasks several new working groups with determining what actions are needed to bring academic, research, and residential programs back to campus for the fall semester in ways that are guided by the best public health practices.

https://www.bu.edu/articles/2020/covid-19-recovery-plan/

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Remotely Hands-On: Teaching lab sciences and the fine arts during COVID-19

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Colleen Flaherty, Inside Higher Ed

Ed tech has its skeptics, and there are certainly some things it can’t teach. Gouvea’s colleague at Tufts, Lauren Crowe, a lecturer in biology, for one, said remote instruction prevents her from teaching her students essential fine motor skills, like using a micropipette. Labster brings its own data to that fight, including an article in Nature finding a twofold improvement in students’ learning outcomes after using gamified simulations. To Gouvea’s point about struggle, Labster’s virtual guides sometimes allow students to fail at first. “There are many ways you can do this, and each teacher has their own preferences, like blended learning and teachers providing courses as homework,” Bodekaer said.

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2020/04/14/teaching-lab-sciences-and-fine-arts-during-covid-19

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When The Pandemic Is Over, Will U.S. Higher Education Be Ready To Get People Back To Work?

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Paul LeBlanc, SNHU and Forbes

When the time comes, is American higher education ready to do its part in quickly getting people back into the workforce? For this economic crisis, America needs a higher education industry that is quickly responsive to workforce needs, that can get people retooled in two and four months, not years, that is affordable, and that better accommodates the working adults and under-served populations too often neglected by four-year colleges and universities.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/paulleblanc/2020/04/12/when-the-pandemic-is-over-will-us-higher-education-be-ready-to-get-people-back-to-work/#2841a376357a

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April 26, 2020

What Happens If Campuses Can’t Reopen in the Fall?

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Jeffrey R. Young with Bryan Alexander, EdSurge

It’s possible that we’re going to be under a straight lockdown for the next year. .. Or it’s quite possible we will have waves of pandemic. So it may be that by the end of May or early June, we’ll get the ‘all clear’ [and we go back]. And then come October, maybe winter, we get another outbreak—either because the virus has mutated or because it has shifted through another population or for some reason that we don’t fully understand—and then we have to go back under quarantine again.

https://www.edsurge.com/news/2020-04-10-what-happens-if-campuses-can-t-reopen-in-the-fall

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Coronavirus has some students’ college decisions in flux, report finds

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By Hallie Busta, Education Dive

One in five high school students responding to a recent survey said they will likely not attend college next year because of the coronavirus. A slightly smaller share said the situation may cause them to attend a different college than they planned. The survey, conducted by consulting firm SimpsonScarborough, looks at how the pandemic is influencing the college plans of high school seniors and college students. Already, colleges have moved their spring recruitment efforts online, and they expect more competition than usual to lock down their fall enrollment.

https://www.educationdive.com/news/coronavirus-has-some-students-college-decisions-in-flux-report-finds/575838/

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College of Charleston students adjusting to online learning

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College of Charleston
After a few weeks of e-learning, College of Charleston students are adjusting to their new virtual classrooms, embracing the change and finding new ways to keep a schedule during this strange time of social distancing. For Eileen Vedder, a junior from Virginia Beach, Virginia, the adjustment to e-learning has been easier than she originally thought. She credits her successful transition to her three years of college combined with having taken online courses prior to the pandemic. Vedder has one class that meets synchronously (in real time) each week through Zoom, while two others use virtual classroom (recorded, self-paced) methods through the College’s online learning management system OAKS, including the VoiceThread feature, which makes an online experience collaborative.

https://www.moultrienews.com/coronavirus/college-of-charleston-students-adjusting-to-online-learning/article_720ec12e-7b73-11ea-be44-3732c328cca5.html

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April 25, 2020

Class Actions Follow Universities’ Moves to Online Learning

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National Law Review

After switching to online learning in response to the COVID-19 pandemic and sending students home, colleges and universities are beginning to face class action lawsuits seeking refunds of tuition, housing costs, meal plans, and fees. One such lawsuit is Church v. Purdue University, No. 4:20-CV-0025, in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Indiana.

https://www.natlawreview.com/article/class-actions-follow-universities-moves-to-online-learning

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A learning process: Teachers adapt to first weeks of distance learning

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Erik Newland, St. Cloud Times

In the two weeks since St. Cloud-metro schools began distance learning, teachers and families have found new and creative ways to connect and make sure kids are still learning. Many teachers said the first week went surprisingly well. But there’s still room to improve. Some classes and grade level are more difficult to teach online than others. Teachers also are working out ways to get students the kinds of social interaction they would normally have in class, and how to give individual attention to students who need it.

https://www.sctimes.com/story/news/2020/04/10/learning-process-st-cloud-area-teachers-adapt-first-week-distance-learning-coronavirus/2972899001/

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What You Need To Know About AI Development

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Kelly Johnson, Udacity Blog

Artificial intelligence (AI) can seem elusive. It sounds like it’s everywhere, but no one knows where exactly it is. However, that perception is not exactly right: AI development is here and is already making our lives better every day. In this article, we walk you through some examples of how AI development is used in healthcare and in communities around the world. We also discuss a few promising examples of AI applications to look out for in the future.

https://blog.udacity.com/2020/04/what-you-need-to-know-about-ai-development.html

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April 24, 2020

COVID-19 and cyberattacks: What you need to know

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ROY ZUR, eCampus News

As schools and workplaces move online in the wake of the coronavirus, cybercriminals are preparing to launch cyberattacks. COVID-19, or the coronavirus, is causing a global crisis of historic proportions—it’s not only changing the way we work, learn, travel, and interact with each other, but also increasing online security risks for both individuals and organizations. With the coronavirus forcing millions to work and study from home and interact more online than in person, cybercrime and cyber-attacks are on the rise.

https://www.ecampusnews.com/2020/04/08/covid-19-and-cyberattacks/

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The great need for matching individuals to jobs during the recession

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Michael B. Horn, Christensen Institute

As the impact of COVID-19 ripples across the economy, the number of layoffs is without precedent, however, in recent American history with a reported 9.9 million Americans filing for unemployment benefits in the past two weeks. Many millions more are likely to be impacted. There is no natural mechanism today to match the people being laid off to the available job openings. As a result, the time lag between when people with transferable skillsets are laid off and then hired is too long, winding, and unwieldy with an uncertain outcome. The wasted time costs the individual, the nation’s taxpayers, and the national response to this pandemic.

https://www.christenseninstitute.org/blog/the-great-need-for-matching-individuals-to-jobs-during-the-recession/

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Creating seamless credit transfer: A parallel higher ed system to support America through and beyond the recession

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Michael B. Horn and Richard Price, Christensen Institute

In an era of increasing data interoperability in almost every sector of life, the idea that today’s students can’t seamlessly transfer credits from one institution to another seems preposterous. Yet higher education’s broken credit transfer system has plagued students and stumped policymakers for decades—to this day, first-time students who transfer lose 43% of their credits on average. This increases their time-to-degree, tuition costs, debt load, and opportunity costs.

https://www.christenseninstitute.org/publications/credit-transfer/

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