After reading The Future of Thinking: Learning Institutions in a Digital Age and “The Future of Learning Institutions in a Digital Age,” I was left feeling extremely optimistic and extremely frustrated. There were so many things to like about these reports, yet I found myself raging against many of the points the authors made. The [...]
Practical Experience
I am feeling better…finally. I’ve mentioned before that I do contract work for a company in Tampa. I mentioned it in this post. In any case, I thought my job was over, and then they called and offered me a new contract to help them implement asynchronous elearning in addition to the synchronous stuff I [...]
Does Online Education Work?
An article published yesterday by Inside Higher Ed. cited a survey that indicated many universities do not know if their online education programs are profitable or as effective as face-to-face classes. Well, no doubt! Rhetoric about online education has incited a panic at Universities and created a flurry of new distance programs and online course [...]
Taxing Education
An article this morning on Inside Higher Ed discusses a new policy suggested by New York that would require tax be paid on a particular distance education course. Their contention is that there is limited instructor-student interaction, and therefore the product is actually more like a piece of software than an educational experience, even though [...]
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