At what point does a theme become a schtick? These ‘deeply flawed’ reports on online education are pushing towards the latter.
Research
"Research" examines academic studies of technology-enabled education initiatives, including the quality of the research and of its coverage in the press.
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
MOOCs in Decline: Insights into multi-year data from MIT and Harvard
It turns out MOOC activity declines year-over-year in similar fashion to course participation per week, based on new research from MIT and Harvard.
Fate of EDU For-Profits: A look into recent enrollment changes and shut downs
Continuing transformation of former large for-profit systems, with eye-squinting graphics