Online Learning Update

July 2, 2016

Face-to-face interaction still important as higher ed shifts to digital

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

By Autumn A. Arnett, Education Dive

As colleges and universities look to embrace online learning, the role of face-to-face interaction cannot be ignored. However, with the trend towards online learning, traditional brick-and-mortar instruction should do away with the 50-minute lecture, experts say, focusing class time instead on a more interactive, conversational and collaborative approach that highlights engagements that are difficult to achieve online in order to hold students’ attention. More than any other skill, writing still requires quality in-person instruction. With much of the content able to be taught online, writing instruction should get more attention in in-person settings.

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