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Online learning tips & news
Category Archives: Online Learningntr23 (flickr) Have you ever searched ratemyprofessors.com or a similar site to see how your students rank you? The results can be enlightening—or disheartening. I recently received the following comment: “Worst Professor, i ever had. Avoid him.” The problem with … Continue reading
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Tagged online faculty, online student opinions, online teaching advice
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floeschie (flickr) If you’re in an elearning environment, you’ve likely faced some tricky communication issues. Elearning communication is rather different from face-to-face interaction and requires a unique approach. Are you ready for more effective online communication? Let’s take a look … Continue reading Editor’s Note: 2011 saw the launch of America’s first gay online high school. In this blog entry, Kim Fountain, PhD., a cultural anthropologist and Executive Director of the RU12 Community Center in Vermont, reviews the history of education for LGBTQ … Continue reading .A.A./Flickr Earning a high school diploma through distance learning used to be a low prestige undertaking. Not any more. These days America’s top universities — think Stanford and Indiana University — are in a race to build the best … Continue reading
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Tagged learning on the go, online high schools, virtual high schools
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stevendepolo (flickr) Now there’s a girl that could use some business advice Entrepreneurs juggle many balls at the same time. Finding the right tools and resources to master necessary skills can save you both time and money in the … Continue reading Editor’s Note: This post is an online instructor’s response to an earlier article, 5 Things Students Hate About Online Learning Degrees. Written by online instructor and course designer, Matt Crosslin, this post is part of an ongoing series of conversations … Continue reading Velvettangerine (flickr) It’s been two years since I’ve engaged in online learning, and while some things have changed — newer software, more electronic textbooks, even the growing popularity of online classes — one thing has remained constant: the critical … Continue reading
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Tagged going back to school, online discussion board, online learning tips
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Jeremy Mikkola/flickr Spoiler Alert: Online learning is not going to be Easy Street Want to attend an online college? That’s great! You’ve done your research. You know the most common complaints about online learning degrees and … Continue reading Rob Boudon/flickr The mythical “cheap online college” is hard to find. Online learning pundits predict that the marriage of educational technology with college learning will result in the birth of a new litter of low-cost or cheap online colleges. … Continue reading Glamhag/Wikimedia Commons Sometimes the glass slipper just doesn’t fit as well as you’d hoped. You’ve been accepted into an online masters degree program. Congratulations! But what if you start taking courses, only to discover your chosen online school isn’t … Continue reading
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An article in the Chronicle of Higher Education about students cheating in those free online classes called MOOCs ignited a fireball of blogging last week about how online learning will, once again, be the ruination of all higher education. Hariadhi/Wikimedia … Continue reading
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Tagged cheating in online classes, MOOCs, online learning myths
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UC Davis College of Engineering/flickr Online learning students often don’t know where to turn when they have questions, so they end up directing them to their online teachers — whether we teachers are qualified to answer them or not. … Continue reading Students have much to say about what they like and don’t like about online learning faculty: “[I] had to wait too long for assignments to be graded!” “[The instructor] took two days to respond to my email,” or a … Continue reading “I was billed $1,170 for a course in which I have completely taught myself.” — Disgruntled Online Student Online learning degrees are all the rage – even the Ivy League schools are offering them – but do they … Continue reading You found it – the only comprehensive, genuine, data-driven list of the cheapest online colleges for bachelor degrees in the USA. We applaud your research skills. The online learning steals and deals team at Get Educated researched … Continue reading Online learning is growing in popularity among the glitterati. If you look around, you’ll find famous online alumni among actors, actresses and super athletes. That’s right, your favorite stars are sneaking around and – gasp – attending college … Continue reading College kids have sticky fingers when it comes to lifting words from the Web. Far too many believe authoring an academic paper involves one essential step: hitting “Ctrl C” on the keyboard. In fact, simply hitting “Ctrl C” … Continue reading
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Tagged cheating in online classes, college cheating, plagiarism online
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Michal Hadaassah/flickr Given the exponential growth of online learning over the last decade, I’m surprised to find people who still believe that online education must be less effective than “traditional” classroom methods. As an online student, I have to … Continue reading Despite research to the contrary, many people — educators often included — continue to argue that no person of intellectual merit ever learned anything of substance in the history of distance learning. This is my response to that silly … Continue reading |
