Upload
meghan-scott
View
215
Download
0
Tags:
Embed Size (px)
Citation preview
Taken from “Staying the Course - Online Education in the United States, 2008,” a survey of Taken from “Staying the Course - Online Education in the United States, 2008,” a survey of more than 2,500 universities and colleges sponsored by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. more than 2,500 universities and colleges sponsored by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. (http://sloanconsortium.org/publications/survey/pdf/staying_the_course.pdf)(http://sloanconsortium.org/publications/survey/pdf/staying_the_course.pdf)
Enrollments in Online Learning
Sloan Survey Summary– Online enrollments continue to grow at rates far in
excess of the total higher education student population, with no signs of slowing.
– Over twenty percent of all U.S. higher education students were taking at least one online course in the fall of 2007.
– 58% of the sampled institutions state that online learning is critical to their institutional strategy.
Taken from “Staying the Course - Online Education in the United States, 2008,” an annual survey of more than 2,500 universities and colleges sponsored by the Sloan Consortium. http://sloanconsortium.org/publications/survey/pdf/staying_the_course.pdf
Why Online Learning?Flexibility, Convenience, Economy, Efficiency.
From Student Success and Retention in Online Courses, Bellevue Community College, November 2006, http://www.sbctc.ctc.edu/docs/data/stdt_success_retention_in_online_courses_bcc.pdf
Less Important Reasons
From Student Success and Retention in Online Courses, Bellevue Community College, November 2006, http://www.sbctc.ctc.edu/docs/data/stdt_success_retention_in_online_courses_bcc.pdf
Why NOT Online Learning?
From Student Success and Retention in Online Courses, Bellevue Community College, November 2006, http://www.sbctc.ctc.edu/docs/data/stdt_success_retention_in_online_courses_bcc.pdf
What’s Changed Out There?• Social Trends
– Technology goes “Main Street”• Moore's Law: processor speed doubles every 18 months • Cell Phones, GPS, MP3 players, smart cars• Use of Internet for everyday (leisure) tasks:
shopping, reading, movies, TV, radio, etc.
– GenNet - the Internet has always “been there.”• Instant Messenger, email, music files, INTERNET!• MySpace, FaceBook, You-Tube, INTERNET!• Social networking, entertainment, INTERNET!
– The nature of education is changing. Recommended:• Portal to Information Literacy (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4yApagnr0s)
• New Answers for E-Learning – Wikis and avatars are improving the educational experience (http://www.usnews.com/articles/education/e-learning/2008/01/10/new-answers-for-e-learning.html, 2008)
The End
Download this PowerPoint presentation from:
http://my-accounting-tutor.com/Elluminate/Presentation.ppt
Play this recorded Elluminate session from:http://elluminate.highland.edu
(Search for our meeting under today’s date)
BasementContains traditional technologies: textbooks, audiovisual materials, etc.Contains infrastructure to use these technologies: libraries, labs, etc.
First Floor
Real-Time Interactions-SeminarsOffice Hours
Time-DelayedInteractions-Homework
Learning By Doing-Labs-Writing-Libraries
Directed Lecture-Lecture Hall-Textbooks
Second FloorContains enhancements to 1st floor practicesRequires the use of instructional technologies
Third FloorContains large-scale structures that support
new educational concepts such as Distributed Learning and Online Learning
Stephen C. Ehrmann (1998) “Technology in Higher Education”