Recent Reports: Online Learning & Students

Below are a few very recent reports pertaining to online learning and its student beneficiaries. Enjoy.

“The Five Faces of Online Education: What Students and Parents Want” by Allison Bailey, Christine Barton, and Katie Mullen (6/18/14)
From BCG Perspectives (Boston Consulting Group):
https://www.bcgperspectives.com/content/articles/education_consumer_insight_five_faces_online_education_what_students_parents_want/#chapter1

“Online College Students 2014: Comprehensive Data on Demands and Preferences” (6/14)
From Learning House:
http://www.learninghouse.com/ocs2014-report/

“Online Learning and Student Outcomes in California’s Community Colleges” by Hans Johnson and Marisol Cuellar Mejia (5/14)
From the Public Policy Institute of California:
http://www.ppic.org/main/publication.asp?i=1096

Online Learning: National Survey Results

Below is a link to the Sloan Consortium’s newly released annual survey; the study, now in its eleventh year, provides interesting statistics while being “aimed at answering fundamental questions about the nature and extent of online education”:

“Grade Change: Tracking Online Education in the United States, 2013”

Recent Surveys Regarding Online Ed & Campus Technology

Here, for your perusal, are a few pieces discussing relevant survey results:

“Survey of Faculty Attitudes on Technology” by Doug Lederman and Scott Jaschik (8/27/13)
From Inside Higher Ed:
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/survey/survey-faculty-attitudes-technology

 (The next two articles both report on the same Gallup survey)

“Traditional Education Beats Online in Key Areas, Opinion Poll Finds” by Scott Carlson (10/15/13)
From The Chronicle’s “Wired Campus” blog:
http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/traditional-education-beats-online-in-key-areas-many-say-in-gallup-survey/47363?cid=cc

“Americans’ View of Online Courses” by Doug Lederman (10/15/13)
From Inside Higher Ed:
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/10/15/american-adults-see-online-courses-least-equivalent-most-ways

“Helping Professors Use Technology Is Top Concern in Computing Survey” by Hannah Winston (10/17/13)
From The Chronicle:
http://chronicle.com/article/Helping-Faculty-Members-Use/142377/?cid=cc&utm_source=cc&utm_medium=en

Online Teaching & Learning Articles

This week, we offer a few recent articles pertinent to online teaching and learning; enjoy!

“Paying Attention in the Digital Age” by Nigel Thrift (5/16/13)
From The Chronicle’s “WorldWise” blog:
http://chronicle.com/blogs/worldwise/paying-attention-in-the-digital-age/32331

“Q&A: Howard Rheingold on Using Technology to Take Learning into Our Own Hands” by Heather Chaplin (5/14/13)
From the MacArthur Foundation’s Spotlight on Digital Media and Learning:
http://spotlight.macfound.org/featured-stories/entry/qa-howard-rheingold-on-using-technology-to-take-learning-into-our-own-hands/

“50 Education Technology Tools You Can Start Using Today” by Jeff Dunn (4/15/13)
From Edudemic:
http://edudemic.com/2013/04/50-education-technology-tools-you-can-start-using-today/

“The Skills Both Online Students and Teachers Must Have” by Todd A. Hitchcock (3/27/13)
From Edudemic:
http://edudemic.com/2013/03/the-skills-both-online-students-and-teachers-must-have/