by Michelle Pacansky-Brock, Get Ideas
Last month’s post, Learning in the Social Web, touched upon how recent growth in online classes have reshaped the higher education enrollment landscape. More than doubling from just over 1.5 million in 2002 to nearly 4 million in 2007, online students now represent quite a chunk of the pie. Teaching online is demanding, and doing it effectively requires a unique skillset and toolkit from classroom instruction. How is faculty coping with this new paradigm? And how can campus leaders help? Last year, a report was shared by the Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities (APLU) and Sloan-C that illuminated an important and provocative back channel about faculty perceptions of online teaching. While the report did not include 2-year institutions (which absorb more than half of our nation’s online enrollments), it did reveal increasingly solid engagement in online teaching at public 4-year universities, noting that more than one third (34.4%) of faculty have taught online.
http://www.getideas.org/getinsight-blog/integrating-online-teaching-campus-culture
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