Retention and Intention in MOOCs
Retention and Intention in Massive Open Online Courses: In Depth (EDUCAUSE Review) | EDUCAUSE.edu.
Online Courses or MOOCs: A Faculty Perspective
Faculty are teaching more on-campus courses with online components. They’re exploring new ways of packaging online content for different audiences with varied needs. And they’re asking the big questions about where online is going and what it means for education itself. “MOOCs are just the tip of the iceberg,” said John Mitchell, professor of computer…
Has education come full circle?
Education started with the Socratic process then morphed into the standard lectures and in the last decade migrated from “student based learning: to “active learning”. In this decade higher education is migrating from closed learning environments to applied learning and open learning environments (provides a link to a timeline on MOOCs that I created with Timeline JS). Within…
Tips for Increasing Student-Faculty Interaction Outside of Class
Student-faculty interaction outside of class can take many forms: office hours either in-person or on-line, e-mail exchanges, serving as an adviser for a club, volunteer opportunities, and small group gatherings are just a few examples. For many, particularly those in large lecture courses, these more individualized interactions offer the deepest kind of learning experiences by…