Wednesday, October 26, 2011

Online Learning in the News

This week, FYI, we offer a few links for you to browse: recent news or commentary about Online Learning in general. Please feel free to comment, or share any such links you’ve bookmarked, in the CCCOnline Community.

“Myths of Online Education” by Steve Kolowich (10/21/11)
“Educational technologists defend online education” at recent Educause conference (Inside Higher Ed):
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2011/10/21/educational-technologists-defend-online-education

“QuickWire: Online-Learning Growth Is Confirmed by Education Dept. Report” by Josh Fischman (10/5/11)
From The Chronicle’s “Wired Campus” blog:
http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/quickwire-online-learning-growth-is-confirmed-by-education-dept-report/33537

“The Digital Revolution and Higher Education” by Kim Parker, Amanda Lenhart and Kathleen Moore (8/28/11)
From the Pew Research Center:
http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2011/08/28/the-digital-revolution-and-higher-education/1/

A series of posts from Frank Donoghue at The Chronicle’s “Innovations” blog:
“Online Learning: Good, Bad, Inevitable” (7/12/11)
http://chronicle.com/blogs/innovations/online-learning-good-bad-inevitable/29814
“The Strengths of Online Learning?” (7/18/11)
http://chronicle.com/blogs/innovations/the-strengths-of-online-learning/29849
“Another Look at the Weaknesses of Online Learning” (7/27/11)
http://chronicle.com/blogs/innovations/more-on-weaknesses-on-online-learning/29888
“Online Learning: Final Concerns” (8/1/11)
http://chronicle.com/blogs/innovations/online-learning-final-concerns/29947

Also from The Chronicle:
“Community-College Students Perform Worse Online Than Face to Face” by Ryan Brown (7/18/11)
http://chronicle.com/article/Community-College-Students/128281/

“Why Are So Many Students Still Failing Online?” by Rob Jenkins (5/22/11)
http://chronicle.com/article/Why-Are-So-Many-Students-Still/127584/?sid=gn

Links to The Sloan Consortium’s surveys. The most recent one is “Class Differences: Online Education in the United States, 2010.”
http://sloanconsortium.org/publications/survey/index.asp

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