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2022
May
2022
Searching for "online"
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Jan
2022
Jan
2022
How not to write about HyFlex or online learning
04
Jan
2022
Jan
2022
China online ed
https://www.edsurge.com/news/2021-12-10-in-china-online-degrees-on-hold-even-as-moocs-rise
With China muscling its way into the first ranks as a global power in science and technology—building vast new academic complexes, climbing to the top ranks of the world’s elite universities, surpassing the U.S. in PhD graduates in science and engineering, and on its way to outperforming all other nations in science and technology academic citations—I was puzzled to discover that China is on hold in offering online higher ed degrees.
To expand the nation’s technical talent pool, Chinese universities are upgrading their capacity to offer more up-to-date science and technology courses, with universities just beginning to introduce degrees in artificial intelligence, machine learning, software engineering and other advanced specialties. For China, the move is a departure from its centuries-old tradition of favoring literature and the liberal arts.
China has come a long way from cinema-style instruction to adopt more common digital learning practices, often closely following U.S. advances in online pedagogy, such as flipped classrooms and MOOCs.
Curiously, China’s reluctance to offer online degrees parallels the attitude toward online degrees in the Ivy League in the U.S.—both have embraced MOOCs while turning away from virtual degrees out of concern that remote degrees will damage their reputations.
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more on online ed in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=online+education
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Dec
2021
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2021
Online Coaching
categories: learning, online learning
The Flourishing, Surprising, And Badly Needed Market For Online Coaching
The Flourishing, Surprising, And Badly Needed Market For Online Coaching
the billion dollar+ market for online coaching. It’s an amazingly successful, fast-growing space with four distinct categories.
- Coaching on-demand, driven by AI matching,
- Leadership development for all, democratizing coaches for everyone,
- Wellbeing, mental, and behavioral health – psychologists selected for you,
- General coaching for training – coaches for sales, service, tech, and other jobs.
The biggest players in this market today are BetterUp, Torch, CoachHub, SoundingBoard, Spring Health, and Lyra.
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Dec
2021
Dec
2021
the Future of Online Education
Stritto, R. A. T. and M. E. D. (2021). What is the Future of Online Education? The Perceptions of Instructors with Over a Decade of Online Teaching Experience. Online Journal of Distance Learning Administration, 24(4). https://www.westga.edu/~distance/ojdla/winter244/thomas_stritto244.html
my annotations here:
Rather than asking if online education is going to replace “traditional” education, institutions need to think through how different modalities can meet student needs. Institutions can also communicate with students about the tradeoffs associated with different educational modalities, so that students can choose courses that are the best fit for their lives.
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2021
Dec
2021
K12 online competency based
a performance- or competency-based approach to education
little evidence that personalized learning improves student learning, in part because so many different approaches are used.
Advocates of competency-based education say they believe public opinion is also shifting their way. They point to a recent national poll showing that 74 percent of voters think the lack of personalized learning in schools is “a problem.”
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more on competency based ed in this iMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=competency+based
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Nov
2021
Nov
2021
Online and Blended Teaching Readiness Assessment (OBTRA)
Development of the Online and Blended Teaching Readiness Assessment (OBTRA)
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/feduc.2021.673594/full
Readiness for teaching online has been defined as the qualities or predispositions of an instructor that exemplify teaching high-quality online courses (Palloff and Pratt, 2011). Mental and physical preparedness (Cutri and Mena, 2020), a willingness to create active, collaborative learning environments that foster a sense community (Palloff and Pratt, 2011), and acceptance of online teaching (Gibson et al., 2008) also demonstrate readiness for the online teaching and learning modality. An inability or unwillingness to adopt student-focused approaches and the perception that online courses provide low quality learning environments (Gibson et al., 2008) and are not worthwhile (Allen and Seaman, 2015) can be important barriers to the successful transition to teaching online.
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2021
Online cheating
categories: academic dishonesty
Online Cheating Isn’t Going Away. Use It as a Teachable Moment for Students and Educators
By Wade Tyler Millward Jul 27, 2020
my note:
Nothing new in this article. It has been wildly known for a long time that the larger part of students commit academic dishonesty because they are not educated on that issue.
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More on Online cheating the same as blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=cheating
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Oct
2021
Oct
2021
pandemic and online ed
The Pandemic Could Have Unlocked Remote Schooling. It Hasn’t
Parents interested in remote learning may also discover their choices are all or nothing: Either they can pull their child out of their traditional school to enroll for the whole year in an online option or they can remain in a brick-and-mortar building and hope for the best.
Remote learning isn’t the only need. Pandemic pods and learning hubs have shown the power of small, individualized spaces where community organizations—whose staff often have the trust of students and families in their neighborhoods—to help students discover a sense of belonging and connect them to essential services like tutoring or mental-health support.
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More on the pandemic in this blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=covid
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Oct
2021
Oct
2021
Online students engagement
Online students engage more in lectures than physical attendees
https://phys.org/news/2021-09-online-students-engage-physical-attendees.html
how, in practice, did HyFlex instruction for large lectures work out? One University of Copenhagen researcher studied exactly that in a study just published in the Danish journal, Læring og Medier (Learning and Media).