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Gender, Ethnicity Impact Online Student Success
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By Rachel Wang   
 
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Gender, Ethnicity May Indicated Online Student Success
Do certain types of students have more trouble adapting to online learning? A new study indicates that gender and ethnicity may impact online student success.

Researchers at Columbia University’s Community College Research Center have uncovered evidence suggesting that male students, younger students, black students and students with lower grade point averages tend to struggle more in online classes than their peers.

Researchers Di Xu and Shanna Smith Jaggars explored a dataset containing nearly 500,000 courses taken by more than 40,000 community and technical college students in Washington State. Their findings are reported in “Adaptability to Online Learning: Differences Across Types of Students and Academic Subject Areas.”

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New Study Shows Quality of Online Degrees and Cost Questioned
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By Rachel Wang   
 
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Researchers Studied Public Perception of Quality of Online Degrees
Only 32 percent of Americans believe that online institutions offer a high-quality education, according to a new study.

The study by the Lumina Foundation and Gallup questioned 1,000 U.S. adults about higher education, including cost and perceived quality of online degrees.

The 2012 report, titled “America’s Call for Higher Education Redesign,” revealed that 10 percent of U.S. adults strongly agree that online colleges and universities offer a quality education, with another 22 percent agreeing. These results are similar to last year’s findings.

Of the respondents, 25 percent disagree or strongly disagree that online colleges and universities offer high-quality education. The majority, at 39 percent, was neutral on the topic.

A traditional college education received the strongest vote of confidence from the American public, with 29 percent strongly agreeing that brick-and-mortar institutes offer high-quality education. Another 47 percent agreed, with 20 percent neutral on the subject. 

Only four percent disagreed or strongly disagreed that traditional colleges and universities offer high-quality education.
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MOOCs Growing in Popularity, Suggests Online Learning Survey
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By Rachel Wang   
 
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If You Love Your Computer, You May Enjoy MOOCs
A new study by Babson Survey Research Group reveals that online learning is growing. This stands in contrast to overall enrollment in traditional colleges and universities, which fell (albeit less than .1 percent) for the first time in the survey’s 10-year history.

The study, titled “Changing Courses: Ten Years of Tracking Online Education in the United States,” examines online learning in the U.S.




Babson also surveyed institutional officials for their take on massive open online courses (MOOCs). This is the first time that MOOCs were included in the research study. 

Only 2.6 percent of higher education institutions currently offer a MOOC, with 10 percent planning to add them. The study found that the majority of schools—55 percent—remain undecided on whether to add MOOCs or not. Babson's research also found that institutions with existing online courses and programs make up the majority of schools planning to offer MOOCs.

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Online Certificates - Cheaper, Faster, Better than a College Degree?
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By Vicky Phillips   
 

What’s faster, cheaper, and more affordable than a college degree?

Woman recieving her online certicate

Online Certificates Offer College Credentials Without the Hefty Price
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A new higher education report by the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce suggests that online certificates — often dismissed by colleges themselves — may be the new super-food in the higher education chain.


If you crave a fatter wallet, let go old-fashioned dreams of a college degree — earn an online certificate, instead, suggests the Georgetown researchers in their new higher education report, Certificates: Gateway to Gainful Employment and College Degrees.


The Georgetown report concluded that certificates, whether earned online or on campus, often outperform two-year and four-year degrees in terms of cash return. The average worker with a certificate saw 20 percent fatter paychecks than peers with only high school diplomas.


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Faculty Fear Growth of e-Learning in Canada
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By Vicky Phillips   
 

The government of Ontario, Canada would like to convert at least 60% of all undergraduate post-secondary courses to an e-learning format.


That's a lot of courses.


The province's teachers, for their part, made it clear last week that they do not support the government's aggressive push toward online learning at the college level.


The results of a province-wide survey of professors, released last week by the Ontario Association of University Faculty Association (OAUFA), revealed that the vast majority -- 86% of Canadian faculty - believe that converting 60% of undergraduate courses to an online format would irreparably "harm the quality of university education."

 

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