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Assessing Online Learning: Strategies, Challenges and Opportunities

If you want insight into how to assess online learning at the course, program, and institutional levels, you’ll want to download this new special report that will help you create more effective online assessment exercises and strategies.


Building Student Engagement in Online Courses

Despite all the high-tech communication technologies available to online instructors today — discussion boards, email, IM, wikis, podcasts, blogs, vlogs, etc. — every once in awhile Dr. B. Jean Mandernach likes to use a tool that was invented way back in 1876. The telephone.


Three Factors in Online Student Satisfaction

Students’ satisfaction with the online learning environment is an important part of their success. A survey of students at Westmoreland County Community College (WCCC) revealed exactly what online students want.


Online MBA Orientation Program

Our MBA program begins with a one-week online orientation course, introducing all incoming students to the online learning environment using Lotus Notes technology, to the discussion databases students use to collaborate with each other, and to techniques to engage in effective interactions. This article discusses some of the practices that we have developed and used to improve our orientation course and to enhance this initial learning experience for our MBA students.