Online Learning Update

September 5, 2015

Colleges embrace the question ‘How can we do that online?’

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

By Amy Lane, Crain’s Detroit Business

“The challenge is keeping up with the pace of advances, and technology, and try not to follow the fads, and just stick to what is good for our students, and their success ultimately,” said Ahmad Ezzeddine, associate vice president for educational outreach and international programs at Wayne State University. One approach to improved online learning is to present course information in smaller segments, Ezzeddine said. “When someone is online, the attention span is a lot shorter. You need to maintain the interest of students, so having them watch a three-hour lecture is not going to be effective,” he said. Students want “more action-oriented learning, in smaller doses,” and clear relevance, said Ed Borbely, director of the University of Michigan’s Integrative Systems and Design graduate degree-granting division housed in the College of Engineering. “There’s less tolerance for ‘Just sit back, someday you might use this.’ ”

http://www.crainsdetroit.com/article/20150830/NEWS/308309995/colleges-embrace-the-question-how-can-we-do-that-online

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