Online Learning Update

July 3, 2021

EDUCAUSE QuickPoll Results: Artificial Intelligence Use in Higher Education

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

D. Christopher Brooks, EDUCAUSE Review

About two-thirds of respondents reported that institutional deficiencies to support the adoption and maintenance of AI are the main challenges to the implementation of AI at their institutions (see figure 4). Nearly three-quarters of respondents said that ineffective data management and integration (72%) and insufficient technical expertise (71%) present at least a moderate challenge to AI implementation. Financial concerns (67%) and immature data governance (66%) also pose challenges. Insufficient leadership support (56%) is a foundational challenge that is related to each of the previous listed challenges in this group.

https://er.educause.edu/articles/2021/6/educause-quickpoll-results-artificial-intelligence-use-in-higher-education

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July 2, 2021

OER and Teaching Through the Rearview Mirror

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

 

Ray Schroeder, Inside Higher Ed

In this 21st century, technologies are changing the landscape of industry and society at a rate not previously documented. Are our courses keeping up? I fear that far too many of our colleagues are using the same texts, the same syllabi, and sharing the same — now stale — facts in their classes with not enough attention to the changes that technologies and social shifts are making in their field. The increasing rate of change shows no signs of abating. Increasingly, we are under pressure as educators to ensure that what we teach is not outdated. We must not be teaching for jobs and career paths that are dwindling away to the dustbin of history. It is incumbent on us to perform the due diligence to assure that what we are teaching will be more relevant tomorrow than yesterday.

https://www.insidehighered.com/digital-learning/blogs/online-trending-now/oer-and-teaching-through-rearview-mirror

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Tips from Women for Women Seeking Leadership Positions in Higher Education

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

EAB

Wisr co-founder and CEO Kate Volzer is joined by Dr. Angela Clark-Taylor, Director of the Flora Stone Mather Center for Women at Case Western Reserve University. The two talk about their chance meeting in 2019 and the work they’ve done together since to support and empower women working in higher ed. Dr. Clark-Taylor shares actionable advice derived from her research on gender equity. Both offer insights they’ve collected through their work leading professional development conferences and webinars designed to help women push through career barriers and pull other women up along the way.

https://eab.com/insights/podcast/workplace/women-leadership-higher-ed/

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Will Open Access Destroy the Quality of Research? Debunking This and Other Myths About Open Access Journal Publishing

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

Marissa Massare – IGI Global

While open access (OA) publishing is gaining traction in the publishing industry, there are many myths and misconceptions that are being shared within the academic community that can deter researchers from considering it as a possibility when submitting their work to scholarly journal publications.

https://www.igi-global.com/newsroom/archive/will-open-access-destroy-quality/4872/

 

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July 1, 2021

8 Tips for Educators Dealing with Digital Fatigue

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

Graham Glass, EdTech

Education is a profoundly caring profession. You are required have high moral obligations and endure stressful work environments, a problem that has only worsened during the pandemic. During the shift to remote learning, professors and instructors quickly adapted to gain new skills. Many spent long hours learning how to use complex digital tools, modifying their teaching strategies for an online learning environment. However, after more than a year of hybrid or fully remote teaching, everyone in the education system has likely been affected by some form of digital fatigue — an unproductive state of mental exhaustion and disengagement. Considering that the future of higher education looks increasingly hybrid, it is critical for faculty to learn how to prevent digital fatigue.

https://edtechmagazine.com/higher/article/2021/06/8-tips-educators-dealing-digital-fatigue

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‘Blended learning has the potential to meet the challenges in nurse education’

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

FIONA CUST, Nursing Times

Online can offer a very rich virtual workspace in which interactions can occur among students in real time or through discussion boards. Students have reported appreciating the flexibility and convenience of being able to work in their own time and location, and fitting this around the demands of, for example, childcare.  The flexibility offered in a blended learning approach may also foster a sense of autonomy – the learners can, on many levels, plan their own learning and take an increased responsibility for this. We aim to develop independent, autonomous, lifelong learners – it may signify that this approach can assist in the achievement of this.

https://www.nursingtimes.net/opinion/blended-learning-has-the-potential-to-meet-the-challenges-in-nurse-education-18-06-2021/

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From Virtual Spectator to Participant: Engaging Students in Synchronous Online Learning Activities

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

Meigan Robb, Faculty Focus

Keeping students engaged in online courses takes careful consideration. Technology options are available to help create a virtual learning environment that promotes social interaction. Occasionally, engaging students in synchronous online learning activities is one option for facilitating connections and a sense of community between faculty and students. Virtual video conferencing platforms, such as ZOOM, have created unique opportunities for facilitating synchronous online learning activities. However, faculty are often faced with the challenge of students who are hesitant to participate in a synchronous virtual learning environment. This article will share simple strategies for transitioning virtual students from spectator to participant during synchronous online learning activities.

https://www.facultyfocus.com/articles/online-education/online-course-delivery-and-instruction/from-virtual-spectator-to-participant-engaging-students-in-synchronous-online-learning-activities/

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June 30, 2021

How higher ed is becoming more resilient

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

Nicole Engelbert, eCampus News

Prioritizing certain steps, such as preparing for an innovative future, will help higher ed survive the curveball from COVID-19. The past year has put the higher education industry to the test. The onset and continuation of the COVID-19 pandemic has required a massive operational shift that many institutions were not prepared for, and schools have had to pivot quickly to make sure that systems and staff alike are as well-prepared as possible to exist in a now predominantly virtual environment. Perhaps the biggest lesson we’ve learned so far is that higher education institutions must increase their resiliency and agility in order to meet evolving staff and student needs.

https://www.ecampusnews.com/2021/06/18/how-higher-ed-is-becoming-more-resilient/

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Continuing blended learning in the fall? Keep these 9 steps in mind for success.

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

Thomas Arnett, Christensen Institute

Effective blended learning breaks the constraints of conventional instruction pervasive in many schools today to unlock customized; competency-based; anytime, anywhere learning for a student population with increasingly diverse needs. When implemented with time to plan, blended learning is much more than a last-resort modality for teachers and students. Building a blended learning program is a process, not an event. The first step in that process is to bring a diverse group together and consider what assumptions you are making when going blended.

https://www.christenseninstitute.org/blog/continuing-blended-learning-in-the-fall-keep-these-9-steps-in-mind-for-success/

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Why Improving Diversity in Cybersecurity Is Important to Everyone

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

Danny Palmer, ZD Net

Improving diversity in the cybersecurity industry by doing more to hire people from different backgrounds can help improve online defences for everyone because it will enable information security teams to think about – and defend against – concepts and attack techniques they may not have considered before. Figures from an NCSC report on diversity detail how over 85% of professionals working in cybersecurity are white, compared to under 15% from black, Asian or mixed ethic groups. Two-thirds of the industry identifies as male, compared to 31% identifying as female, while over 84% of those surveyed identify as straight, compared with 10% who identified as LGBT. But diversity is – gradually – increasing.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/why-improving-diversity-in-cybersecurity-is-vital-for-everyone/

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June 29, 2021

MIT and Harvard agree to transfer edX to ed-tech firm 2U

Filed under: Online Learning News — Ray Schroeder @ 2:49 pm

MIT and Harvard University have announced a major transition for edX, the nonprofit organization they launched in 2012 to provide an open online platform for university courses: edX’s assets are to be acquired by the publicly-traded education technology company 2U, and reorganized as a public benefit company under the 2U umbrella. The transaction is structured to ensure that edX continues in its founding mission, and features a wide array of protections for edX learners, partners, and faculty who contribute courses.

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Global E-learning Market Report 2021-2026: Paradigm Shift from Content Delivery to Interactive Learning Platforms

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

Research and Markets

The e-learning market size is expected to grow at a CAGR of over 13% during 2020-2026. The online learning market is likely to witness an absolute growth of about 110% by 2026. The online education market and content delivery is seeing a paradigm shift from content delivery to interactive learning platforms, language training, functional skill development, proficiency testing, and higher education pedagogy, video streaming of classes to corporate training, talent management, and e-governance.

https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2021/06/16/2247918/0/en/Global-E-learning-Market-Report-2021-2026-Paradigm-Shift-from-Content-Delivery-to-Interactive-Learning-Platforms.html

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What do law students think of remote learning during the pandemic? A new survey sheds light

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

STEPHANIE FRANCIS WARD, ABA Journal

First-year law students are more satisfied with online learning than those who started law school before the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a survey released Wednesday by the AccessLex Institute and Gallup. Titled Law School in a Pandemic: Student Perspectives on Distance Learning and Lessons for the Future, the survey was conducted between February and March 2021, with a sample of 1,739 currently enrolled law students. For the spring 2021 and fall 2020 semesters, about 90% of law students took at least half their courses online, according to the survey.

https://www.abajournal.com/news/article/what-do-law-students-think-of-remote-learning-during-the-pandemic

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Remote Learning Remains Popular at Modesto Junior College

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

Government Tech

Having lost a fifth of its enrollment from fall 2019 to 2020, MJC is preparing for a fall semester with fewer course offerings, sparsely populated classes and nearly half its students now favoring remote instruction. MJC, like other community colleges in California, suffered quite a toll from the public health crisis, including a 20-percent enrollment drop from 18,066 in fall 2019 to 14,489 in fall 2020. Aside from the effects of remote learning on students, college and career paths were interrupted, and sports and performing arts programs were affected.

https://www.govtech.com/education/higher-ed/remote-learning-remains-popular-at-modesto-junior-college

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June 28, 2021

How can I become an anti-racist leader? 7 questions campus leadership should ask themselves |

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

Meacie Fairfax, EAB

College leaders want to do the right thing and combat inequities and discrimination, yet these conversations are hard. So hard that they rarely happen in a meaningful way. It is no longer enough just to commission strategic plans or documents rife with diversity, equity, and inclusion language and hope for the change to happen. Leaders need to dig in, ask tough questions, and talk about the state of race and equity on their campuses.

https://eab.com/insights/blogs/student-success/anti-racist-campus-leadership/
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Quantifying COVID Impacts

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

Elizabeth Redden, Inside Higher Ed

A National Center on Education Statistics report documents the impact of the pandemic on student enrollment and financial stability across demographic categories and institution types. About 40 percent of undergraduates experienced a financial disruption due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and 8.2 percent either withdrew (4.4 percent) or took a leave of absence (3.8 percent) from their institution, according to a new report from the National Center for Education Statistics on the ways the pandemic affected undergraduate student finances, housing and enrollment. Over all, 87.5 percent of students reported experiencing a disruption or change in their enrollment due to COVID-19, with 84.1 percent saying that some or all of their classes moved to online-only formats.

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2021/06/17/nces-report-examines-impacts-pandemic-undergraduate-enrollment-finances-and-housing

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How Open Education Enables Culturally Responsive Teaching

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

Ruanda Garth McCullough and Richard Sebastian, Faculty Focus

If students can see themselves and their communities in what they’re learning, then they learn differently—and better. This is the idea behind culturally responsive teaching (CRT). With CRT, students’ cultural knowledge is seen as an asset in the classroom, not something that should be checked at the door. Cultural responsiveness is not new, but in this year of reckoning with racial inequity, there is renewed interest among higher education instructors. Bringing cultural responsiveness into teaching isn’t just about checking a box or making an instructor feel good about doing “the equitable thing.” CRT yields tangible benefits for students, facilitating brain processing and cultivating critical thinking skills. Research has shown that students are most satisfied with instructors who respect and are inclusive of cultural differences.

https://www.facultyfocus.com/articles/equality-inclusion-and-diversity/how-open-education-enables-culturally-responsive-teaching/

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June 27, 2021

The 7 Best Online Learning Platforms of 2021

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

Ernest Hamilton, Science Times

Online learning has rapidly evolved in recent years especially since the pandemic has struck the world. Online learning is convenient, effective, cheaper and takes much less time as compared to the traditional learning methods. Whether you want to learn a new marketable skill or just want to learn something new online learning is the way to go. In this piece, we are going to discuss the top 7 e-learning independent platforms in 2021.

https://www.sciencetimes.com/articles/31703/20210614/the-7-best-online-learning-platforms-of-2021.htm

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UK-Based FutureLearn is an online learning platform with over 1,000 courses from top schools and organizations

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

Julia Pugachevsky, Business Insider

Like e-learning platforms edX and Coursera, FutureLearn, a UK-based e-learning platform, offers over 1,000 online courses from schools like Cambridge, UCL, and The University of Kent — making it a particularly good option for e-learning content from global universities. Below, we rounded up some of the most popular ones, in topics from fiction writing and career development to forensic science and nutrition.

https://www.businessinsider.com/futurelearn-best-free-online-courses

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Combining Online Courses With In-Person Supports, ‘Hybrid Colleges’ Unite

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

Rebecca Koenig, EdSurge

Calling themselves “hybrid colleges,” these mini campus centers have set big goals for themselves, such as bringing college within reach for people historically left out of higher education. Now, more than a dozen of these nonprofits are strengthening their bonds and committing to shared goals by creating the Hybrid College Network. “The network is incredibly collaborative. They’re proud of the model because it is serving students really well,” says Lauren Trent, CEO of AdvanceEDU in Colorado, which launched in 2020. “There is mutual interest in learning from each other, when the models are different, what is driving student success?”

https://www.edsurge.com/news/2021-06-14-combining-online-courses-with-in-person-supports-hybrid-colleges-unite

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June 26, 2021

6 charts showing the state of college enrollment in spring 2021

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

Hallie Busta, HigherEd Dive

The higher education sector didn’t get a reprieve from the enrollment losses that defined the fall term, new data shows. Instead, the numbers from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center found a few enduring trends. In all, colleges reporting to the Clearinghouse brought in roughly 600,000 fewer students this spring compared to a year ago, a figure that includes graduates and undergraduates. That’s more than the 460,000-student decrease between the falls of 2019 and 2020. The pandemic is exacerbating a trend in recent years of fewer men enrolling in postsecondary education. Shorter-term credentials could be one option for this group, the publication noted, though the latest Clearinghouse data shows the steepest declines at community colleges, which offer more such programs.

https://www.highereddive.com/news/6-charts-showing-the-state-of-college-enrollment-in-spring-2021/601781/

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