Online Course Design Rubrics, Part 2: So what?
Big Picture
The "Big Picture" category covers larger trends and topics that influence both the problems that technology can help address in education as well as the barriers to implementing high-quality technology-supported education. This includes research-based topics such as learning science and program effectiveness studies, philosophical discussions such as outcomes definitions, and macro-forces such as government policy, markets, and business models.
Online Course Design Rubrics, Part 1: What are they?
Online Course Design Rubrics, Part 1: What are they?
Flawed AEI Report on Online Education: The good, the bad, and the ugly
At what point does a theme become a schtick? These ‘deeply flawed’ reports on online education are pushing towards the latter.
EEP News: Carnegie Mellon and Duke Lower Barriers to Conducting Educational Research
I’m thrilled to announce our first Empirical Educator Project contribution. From the press release: Carnegie Mellon University and Duke University have shared newly available free tools that will significantly lower the barriers to conducting ethical educational research. The two universities contributed the tools through e-Literate’s Empirical Educator Project (EEP), an effort to promote broader adoption […]
Insight into Community College Students and Challenges of Online Education
New survey on community colleges and perceived barriers provides insights into the nature of some pushback of online education
Deeply Flawed GMU Report on Online Education Asks Good Questions But Provides Misguided Analysis
Unlike Hoxby report, new GMU study of online education asks good questions and describes research accurately (for the most part), but like past report this one is also deeply flawed and causes more harm than good.
OER Survey and Adoption Growth: It pays to check source material
Chronicle coverage of BSRG OER survey confuses key data on OER adoption. #informationliteracy