Online Education
Recent Seminars
State Authorization: Strategies for Online Providers
If your institution’s online programs cross state lines to reach students, you need accurate, comprehensive information to help make sense of all the changes involving federal regulations and state authorization practices. Join us for a two-part seminar led by Dr. Bruce Chaloux, past president of the Sloan Consortium.
A Two-Part audio Online Seminar • Recorded on Wednesday, February 1st, 2012
I’m Teaching Online Next Term: What Do I Have to Know?
I’m Teaching Online Next Term: What Do I Have to Know? Program includes a CD with the video presentation, plus supplemental materials, PowerPoint slides, and complete transcript • $99 New online instructors tend to face the virtual classroom with conflicting feelings of excitement and fear. While embracing the benefits of online learning, they also have
Community Colleges Continue to Grow Online
Community colleges saw a nine percent increase in distance learning enrollments in the 2009-10 academic year, according to a survey by the Instructional Technology Council (ITC), an affiliate of the American Association of Community Colleges.
How to Create Effective Activities for Online Teaching
We’ve all used them, first as students and now as online instructors: activities in a class meant to highlight, spotlight, underline, enhance, or explain some aspect of the subject we are teaching. Too often, not much thought or effort is given to these activities, resulting in outdated and unsuccessful activities. With the right approaches and a bit of knowledge, online instructors can create activities that are dynamic, effective, and interesting.
Four Pillars of Online Course Quality
The rapid growth of online education, coupled with instances of lax academic integrity and cases involving questionable instructional quality, has put the entire industry under the microscope. As a result, today’s distance education programs are looking to not only prove the quality of their programs, but improve them as well.
How Do Students Think Online Courses Compare?
In its early days web-based instruction was seen as a solution to a problem: students who were separated from campus either by geography or schedule would be able to take advantage of web-based instruction to get the training or degree they desired.
‘Managing Online Education’ Study Sheds New Light on the Operations Side of Online Programs
A survey of senior campus officials responsible for managing online and distance education programs revealed some interesting findings, including almost half of the participants not knowing whether their program is profitable.
Critical New Findings from the ‘Managing Online Education’ Study
WCET and The Campus Computing Project share their findings from the 2009 Managing Online Education Survey with details on how different schools handle the operational, instructional, and IT issues of their online programs. The survey data are based on responses from 182 senior campus officials at two- and four-year public and private U.S. colleges and universities.
audio Online Seminar • Recorded on Thursday, October 29th, 2009
Tools of Engagement: Technologies and Strategies for All Learning Styles
How do you motivate online learners?
It’s an age-old question that continues to stump online instructors as well as the managers of distance education programs trying to solve the attrition problem that continues to drag down this otherwise thriving segment of higher education.
11 Strategies for Managing Your Online Courses
If you think the flexibility of online teaching also means that it’s OK to “wing it” now and then, you’d be wrong. If anything, you have to be more organized, more consistent and more prepared for anything than ever before.
