Online Learning Update

November 30, 2017

IS E-LEARNING REPLACING FACE-TO-FACE TRAINING?

Filed under: Online Learning News — Ray Schroeder @ 12:08 am

by Jonathan Symcox, Business Cloud
Organisations are looking for ways to maximise the effectiveness of their training while reducing costs. Samantha Caine, client services director at Business Linked Teams, says e-learning can help firms address the challenge of rolling out desired behaviours and skillsets consistently across global workforces. “Organisations need an approach that can overcome language barriers and cultural differences and help them deliver their global business objectives,” she told BusinessCloud. “It’s possible to train sales teams and future leaders of global organisations with e-learning and the rationale for pursuing this path is clear.

http://www.businesscloud.co.uk/news/is-e-learning-replacing-face-to-face-training

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Technology Is Changing The Way We Learn—And Business Schools Need To Adapt

Filed under: Online Learning News — Ray Schroeder @ 12:04 am

by Marco De Novellis, Business Because

Now, more than ever, it’s about having a presence online, and making sure you’re getting your personal brand out there in whatever way you can. Writing articles, sharing content, networking, contributing to communities—all that can elevate your digital footprint and make you look like an expert in your field. As we’re moving into a multigenerational workforce—with millennials in the mix—we’re finding that mindset is becoming as important as skillset. Business school and MBA degrees give you that business mindset.

https://www.businessbecause.com/news/inside-view-top-jobs/4922/technology-changing-learning-business-schools-adapt

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How Professors Can Bring Culturally-Responsive Teaching to Online Courses

Filed under: Online Learning News — Ray Schroeder @ 12:02 am

By Tina Nazerian, EdSurge

Instructors should make sure students have the opportunity to build their own learning experiences, New Mexico State University Professor Julia Parra argues. She said that one of the ways she implements active participation is through participatory course design in some of her courses, where students take part in brainstorming what the course will look like. She takes the approach of co-designing. After Parra has combined her learning goals and objectives with that of her students, she gives it back to them, and asks them for their ideas for the activities and resources that they could do in the course and assessments. In the end she builds the final syllabus based on their suggestions.

https://www.edsurge.com/news/2017-11-22-how-professors-can-bring-culturally-responsive-teaching-to-online-courses

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November 29, 2017

New Study Finds that Undergraduates Crave More Online Learning

Filed under: Online Learning News — Ray Schroeder @ 12:13 am

By Cait Etherington, eLearning Inside

There were no major surprises in Educause’s 2017 ECAR Study of Undergraduate Students and Information Technology. For four years running, the number of students preferring a blended learning environment that includes “some to mostly online components” has increased and those preferring a face-to-face only learning environment has continued to decline. The report did find, however, that tablets, which were gaining popularity a few years ago, are now on their way out as a device of preference. While by no means the final word on campus-based technology, the annual survey is one of the most comprehensive surveys on educational technologies and offers valuable insights into trends and best practices.

https://news.elearninginside.com/new-study-finds-undergraduates-crave-online-learning/

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MOOCs from a Learner’s Perspective: A Conversation with Dhawal Shah, Founder of Class-Central.com

Filed under: Online Learning News — Ray Schroeder @ 12:08 am

By Henry Kronk, eLearning Inside

Dhawal Shah is the creator of Class-Central.com, the definitive resource on massive online open courses, or MOOCs. He was one of the 160,000 learners who enrolled in former Stanford professor Sebastian Thrun’s artificial intelligence course back in 2011. Since, MOOCs, and the market they have created, have evolved into several new species altogether. I spoke with Shah over the phone to discuss how MOOCs have transformed, what students can take away, what professors can offer, and how they can be improved.

https://news.elearninginside.com/moocs-learners-perspective-conversation-dhawal-shah-founder-class-central-com/

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UF Offers Online Classes To Displaced Puerto Rico Students

Filed under: Online Learning News — Ray Schroeder @ 12:02 am

by WUFT

Tammy Aagard, the associate vice president for enrollment management said the displaced students’ program allows those affected by the hurricanes to take as many online classes as they want from a selected list through UF in spring 2018 and summer 2018 without having to pay tuition and fees. These courses will count toward students’ degrees as long as they are compatible with their school’s requirements. UF requires that students prove they attended one of the 19 partnered institutions for students to enroll and receive credit. This is not the first time that a program like this is being offered to students. After Hurricane Katrina ripped through New Orleans in 2005, universities came together and accepted students from the schools located there.

https://www.wuft.org/news/2017/11/21/uf-provides-opportunity-to-students-displaced-by-hurricanes/

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November 28, 2017

Continuum of Learning: Creating life-long learners

Filed under: Online Learning News — Ray Schroeder @ 12:10 am

By Tech. Sgt. Ryan Crane,  AFNS

Keesler Air Force Base’s 336th Training Squadron has begun developing multiple initiatives aimed at improving the learning experience of Airmen who are fresh out of basic military training. Air Education and Training Command’s Continuum of Learning initiative is a shift to better focus how Airmen learn by integrating education, training and experience in ways that allow them to learn anytime, anywhere throughout their careers. The end goal of the continuum is to create a culture of life-long learners. “What this does, is transform our industrial-age pipeline production system into a modern-age, learner-centric model,” said Lt. Gen. Darryl Roberson, AETC commander. According to Rick Harmon, 336th TRS communications and information flight chief, the squadron is laying the foundation for innovative ways of conducting modulated training that is current and relative at any stage in their career.

http://www.af.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/1377370/continuum-of-learning-creating-life-long-learners/

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Eastern Michigan faculty worry about new online-only degrees

Filed under: Online Learning News — Ray Schroeder @ 12:05 am

By Martin Slagter, MLive

Online degrees offered by Eastern Michigan University with marketing help from an out-of-state private firm are drawing criticism from faculty members who believe the program could reduce the quality of education students receive. Leaders of unions representing faculty and full-time and part-time lecturers at EMU announced a print and advertising campaign Wednesday, Nov. 15, calling for a temporary halt to the new marketing partnership with Texas-based firm Academic Partnerships. The unions also created an online petition calling for the university to send its contract with the firm to EMU faculty for a thorough review.

http://www.mlive.com/news/ann-arbor/index.ssf/2017/11/emu_faculty_critical_of_new_on.html

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University of Colorado Is Set to Overhaul Their Online Programs

Filed under: Online Learning News — Ray Schroeder @ 12:03 am

By Henry Kronk, eLearning Inside

The University of Colorado is currently in the midst of an effort to bring more of their courses online. A team of administrators is hoping to make it easier for professors to teach online classes and even offer some degrees for remote students. Last week, the CU Board of Regents and University Affairs cast their support behind the plan and have greenlighted the necessary funds. It will cost an estimated $20 million and entirely replace the existing online system. It’s going to require completely revamping several aspects of CU’s digital infrastructure, including student registration, admissions, and financial aid.

https://news.elearninginside.com/university-colorado-set-overhaul-online-programs/

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November 27, 2017

UW Endowed Professor Shares Online Teaching Advice with Inside Higher Ed

Filed under: Online Learning News — Ray Schroeder @ 12:10 am

by University of Wyoming

Leigh A. Hall, Wyoming Excellence in Higher Education Endowed Chair Professor in Literacy Education at the University of Wyoming, shared her advice on how to build relationships with students and help them overcome the feeling of isolation in an online learning environment with Inside Higher Ed. “If we want online learning to be truly interactive, then part of our job as teachers is to foster communities where students can become connected,” she explains.

http://www.uwyo.edu/uw/news/2017/11/uw-endowed-professor-shares-online-teaching-advice-with-inside-higher-ed.html

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How Online Can Save Small, Private Colleges from Going Under

Filed under: Online Learning News — Ray Schroeder @ 12:05 am

By Robert Ubell, EdSurge

One strategy for these colleges to avoid extinction is to diversify—to avoid a precarious reliance on residential students. And one way to do that is by adding online programs to the mix. The challenge for many small colleges is that they see online courses as at odds with their very identity. After all, these institutions embrace intimacy as central to their mission, with close, mentoring relationships between faculty and students, and deep, comradely connections among students—essential ingredients of highly engaged learning. For many, online fails to meet these crucial education ambitions. Instead, they reject virtual instruction as alienated learning, with isolated faculty and students coldly facing inert computer screens—not one another.

https://www.edsurge.com/news/2017-11-21-how-online-can-save-small-private-colleges-from-going-under

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UPCEA/Chmura Study: Occupational Shifts and Higher Education Credentials

Filed under: Online Learning News — Ray Schroeder @ 12:02 am

by Jim Fong, UPCEA / Christine Chmura & Patrick Clapp, Chmura

This report illustrates a number of major occupational shifts in technology, healthcare, and other industries, and their impact on higher education. While new occupational categories are certain to arise, and existing ones may change, UPCEA and Chmura hope to shed greater light on this complex topic. The U.S. is at a unique period in time. An aging Baby Boomer population, the unique dynamics related to maturing Millennial and Generation Z learners, technological advances, and shifting labor needs are rapidly changing the economic and occupational landscape. Taking these factors into consideration, and coupling them with the country’s deeply-rooted four-year degree model, will challenge many institutions to adopt or consider new or alternative educational models.

UPCEA/Chmura Study: Occupational Shifts and Higher Education Credentials

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November 26, 2017

Browser Extension Helps Identify Fake News Accounts on Twitter

Filed under: Online Learning News — Ray Schroeder @ 12:10 am

By Dian Schaffhauser, THE Journal

Two undergraduate computer science students at the University of California, Berkeley have undertaken a job Twitter has been struggling with: figuring out when incendiary tweets have come from a bot instead of a real person. Ash Bhat and Rohan Phadte recently released Botcheck.me, a Google Chrome browser extension that places a button onto every Twitter profile and tweet. By clicking the Botcheck.me button, a user can tell whether the account is likely run by a person or an automated program. As the duo explained in a report published in Medium, they undertook the work specifically to address political propaganda bots, which are intended to weaken and subvert American political discourse.

https://thejournal.com/articles/2017/11/15/browser-extension-helps-identify-fake-news-accounts-on-twitter.aspx

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China’s Booming Online Education Industry Brings New Opportunities

Filed under: Online Learning News — Ray Schroeder @ 12:04 am

By Xu Xinchen, Women of China

Chinese students’ eagerness for higher quality education is well documented but, in recent years, many are turning to the Internet for their learning needs. In 2013, Massive Online Open Courses (MOOCs) aimed at unlimited participation and open access via the web, which gained access to the Chinese market, and online learning suddenly took off. According to the China Industrial Information Network, over 100 million people took online classes last year – more than doubling that of 2010. The number of people taking online classes is expected to continue to grow at an annual average of 15 percent.

http://www.womenofchina.cn/womenofchina/html1/features/education/1711/3563-1.htm

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Online learning can prepare students for a fast-changing future – wherever they are

Filed under: Online Learning News — Ray Schroeder @ 12:03 am

By Helen O’Sullivan, Econo Times
Take a moment to think back to the first classroom you ever entered, whether it was at school, or nursery, chances are there was a blackboard, with coloured chalk where you focused most of your attention. You were probably working from a booklet or on paper using pencil and crayons and drawing pictures by hand. Now fast forward to the classroom of 2017 and everything has changed. Gone are the chalks and the crayons – which have been replaced by screens, social networks, cloud computing and augmented reality. Technology has changed the way classrooms work, not just at school, but right throughout the education system. So from nursery to university, students these days engage with online learning from day one. And yet, despite this increased growth in technological advances, higher education institutions are operating in an increasingly competitive and unstable market.

https://www.econotimes.com/Online-learning-can-prepare-students-for-a-fast-changing-future–wherever-they-are-1015869

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November 25, 2017

Statewide and Online Only in California

Filed under: Online Learning News — Ray Schroeder @ 12:09 am

By Ashley A. Smith, Inside Higher Ed

California community colleges look to create a new statewide​, online-only college that will focus on helping adult students earn credentials. More than two million Californians have attended college but don’t have a degree, which is a problem the state’s two-year system is trying to help solve with a new statewide, online-only college. Today the system will submit three options for the college to its Board of Governors. “What we’re trying to do is provide access to a population we’re not serving,” said Jose Fierro, president of Cerritos College and co-chair of the group that developed the three online options. “We’re trying to look to the future to provide as many options for upward mobility given the changes in the economy and population in the state.”

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2017/11/13/california-mulls-three-options-new-online-community-college

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How the corporate world’s ‘microlearning’ approach can shake up the industry

Filed under: Online Learning News — Ray Schroeder @ 12:04 am

By Pat Donachie, Education Dive

Corporate learning is increasingly moving towards an educational experience marked by competency or skills development, and higher ed institutions must be cognizant of the changes, or they risk falling behind market and technological trends and pressure, according to Sean Gallagher, the founder and executive director of Northeastern University’s Center for the Future of Higher Education and Talent Strategy. Gallagher writes in EdSurge that employers have gradually spent less on employee training and development in recent years, despite industries bemoaning the lack of experienced job applicants. Gallagher suggests this is due to more options in terms of MOOCs and online resources like Coursera, which have specialized in targeting corporate skills development in many of its offerings. Corporate experts see this move towards “microlearning” leading to increased use of “learning experience platforms,” which would allow its users to select educational content pertaining to their education or job, with Gallagher likening it to the way someone can select a movie to TV show on Netflix or Amazon.

https://www.educationdive.com/news/how-the-corporate-worlds-microlearning-approach-can-shake-up-the-indust/510820/

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Nontraditional students gaining steam in higher ed discussions

Filed under: Online Learning News — Ray Schroeder @ 12:03 am

By Patti Zarling and Shalina Chatlani, Education Dive

A new higher education advocacy group — Higher Learning Advocates — has emerged to specifically focus on nontraditional students and federal education policies addressing them.  Among some of the concerns cited by the group at its first public event is tuition affordability for older students that don’t qualify for scholarship, but are working full-time and raising families — recommending federal financial aid standards to address that.  With federal statistics showing 75% of U.S. college students did not begin their higher education directly out of high school and nearly half of them are over 25, with the number expected to grow, nontraditional student advocates argue institutions ought to reconsider their business models to be more flexible.

https://www.educationdive.com/news/nontraditional-students-gaining-steam-in-higher-ed-discussions/510865/

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November 24, 2017

A Seat at the Coursetable

Filed under: Online Learning News — Ray Schroeder @ 12:07 am

by Jordan Powell, Yale Herald
I, too, arrived on campus, wondering what it would be like to sit in a classroom with Claudia Rankine, or daydream in the back of Akhil Amar’s lecture after months of hearing my father gush over his favorite legal scholar. And I was bemoaning the fact that I’d have to wait until the spring to take “Death” with Shelly Kagan when my friend told me over a plate of Yale Mac ‘n Cheese that Kagan’s lectures had been available online for the past 10 years. Indeed this is true: lectures by the university’s most notable faculty from Jonathan Holloway to David Blight can be found online, accompanied by required course materials such as readings, exams, and homework on a platform known as Open Yale Courses (OYC), started by program director and Dunham Professor in the History of Art Diana E.E. Kleiner in 2001. The goal of the program is to expand the accessibility of a Yale education to the general public through an online platform.

https://yaleherald.com/a-seat-at-the-coursetable-4e362b6dd6d7

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Delivering value beyond school walls

Filed under: Online Learning News — Ray Schroeder @ 12:05 am

by Michael McRobbie, Indianapolis Business Journal

When we created our IU Online education initiative over five years ago, we intended to add a highly convenient option for our current students to help them graduate on time and also reach new students who might not otherwise have considered a college education. In other words, our goal was to deliver an authentic—and authentically IU—higher education experience. The results of this effort have been quite outstanding. This fall at IU, we have seen a record 5,066 students enrolled in more than 115 online degrees and over 2,000 online courses offered by IU, a 4 percent increase over last year’s record. A remarkable 29,000 students—nearly a third of our total enrollment—are enrolled in at least one online course, a figure that has surged dramatically in the past four years, and those courses are accounting for more than one-tenth of all credit hours across the university and matching revenue.

https://www.ibj.com/articles/66315-mcrobbie-delivering-value-beyond-school-walls

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Online learning can prepare students for a fast-changing future – wherever they are

Filed under: Online Learning News — Ray Schroeder @ 12:03 am

by Helen O’Sullivan, the Conversation

Technology has changed the way classrooms work, not just at school, but right throughout the education system. So from nursery to university, students these days engage with online learning from day one. And yet, despite this increased growth in technological advances, higher education institutions are operating in an increasingly competitive and unstable market. It is clear then that online programmes can and should be viewed as an innovative platform through which access to higher education can continue. This is important because online learning breaks down barriers that are otherwise difficult to overcome and helps to share knowledge across the globe.  But, for this to happen, higher education institutions must continue to adapt, and develop new ways to deliver programmes and courses.

http://theconversation.com/online-learning-can-prepare-students-for-a-fast-changing-future-wherever-they-are-80497

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