Edsurge

AUGUST 9, 2022

It’s the seventh edition of the Changing Landscape of Online Education (CHLOE) report. In the survey, chief online officers predicted that by 2025, programs and courses that mix on-campus and online learning experiences will become the norm for undergraduate students, graduate students and adult learners.

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Edsurge

MARCH 19, 2020

In this interview with EdSurge, Maurer explains her goals for the project and emphasizes the importance of comptent online course design. Some are available 20 hours or more; some are retired online learning professionals who are coming on and volunteering to help. EdSurge: How and why did you start this effort?

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Edsurge

APRIL 8, 2020

Department of Education. It was really in the ‘80s and the ‘90s that the first satellite distance learning programs came up,” she adds, meaning students could sit in classrooms connected via interactive satellite TV. In a 2010 meta-analysis of online-learning research compiled by the U.S.

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Edsurge

MAY 6, 2020

It’s a complicated question, even in the best of times—one that has been at the forefront of our daily online teaching practice and our research into the online behaviors and interactions that can have the greatest impact on successful learner outcomes. There isn’t one solution for increasing learner engagement and motivation.

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Motivation Education Learning Feedback 218

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

The emerging field of Learner Experience Design or LX design is about balancing the need for quality course design with the central role of human interaction in online learning. It’s a collaborative process that engages faculty in the design and improvement of online courses.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 21, 2021

The pandemic affected every school district in the nation, yet many of the university programs still lack the technology component in their programs three years later. Exposed now are deficiencies of utilizing online learning management systems that school districts face. There should be a concerted effort to focus on this area.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 27, 2023

While many of them have learned collaboratively in full or half-day training sessions for their entire careers, many struggle to carve out time for online learning during the school day because they have a heavy load of regular classroom obligations. The adjustment has been difficult for our teachers too.

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Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 27, 2024

Sally Baldwin, EdD, researches online course quality, online course design, and course evaluation instruments. Her research is motivated and informed by her work as an instructor and instructional designer within the California community college system. Louis’ Olin Business School.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

He has also been named a Master Educator by Course Hero , an education technology company that produced a short film about him. He engineers every aspect of his courses, down to which students he’ll shoot the breeze with before class. Source: Course Hero. Source: Course Hero. What Is Course Hero?

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Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 27, 2024

Sally Baldwin, EdD, researches online course quality, online course design, and course evaluation instruments. Her research is motivated and informed by her work as an instructor and instructional designer within the California community college system. Louis’ Olin Business School.

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Instructors Students Minute Papers Course Design 104

Edsurge

MAY 13, 2021

It was 2012, and online learning was suddenly booming. Courses at Stanford and at MIT were opened for free online to the masses, and the masses signed up—with some courses attracting more than 160,000 each. Go to edX and look at the platform for creating courses there—it is cumbersome and difficult,” he adds.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Learn more about the Six Red Marbles' Learning Experience Design team , and how they moved Boston College's courses online. The difference between good and great course designers is the ability to serve as the eyes of the students,” says Evenchik.

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Learning Gamification Course Design Textbooks 141

Edsurge

MARCH 3, 2018

I also teach remotely and write content for an app-based English language-learning product. So, I’m an ed-tech enthusiast and a classroom teacher, enthralled by how online learning is reshaping education, but also apt to turn down a tablet when a piece of chalk will do. I’ve worked in K-12 contexts in Armenia and Spain.

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Edsurge

APRIL 12, 2018

“Digital learning can help institutions reduce costs and pass along savings to students through three primary mechanisms: raising student-to-instructor ratios, drawing on a broader network of adjunct faculty, and avoiding additional operations costs.”

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

Online education has been touted as a way to increase access to education. But it’s increasingly unclear if online learning is living up to its promise for students, even as digital learning makes its way into more institutions’ offerings. This has all left us asking: Who does online education really serve?

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Edsurge

MARCH 29, 2017

Educational media is at an inflection point. As online learning companies compete for the attention and wallets of learners, players like MasterClass , Linked Learning , Cognotion and Harvard are investing in producing videos that are so beautiful they could be National Geographic documentaries or sitcom pilots.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 13, 2017

I have spoken to a few of our current clients and potential clients, and when I mention blended or online learning, they are like ‘Yes!’” Petrillo, who was previously the chief learning officer at EDUCAUSE, is more reserved. says Piloto. They get excited and tell me more we need that.” We have done a lot, too.” .

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Lecturing Course Design Group work Reading 83

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Before the invasion of the internet, the university comprised a secure, single identity; now—with about a third of college students online —the American college is bifurcated. Surprisingly, just over twenty years later, things didn’t turn out that way in practice.

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Fairness Lecturing Course Design Internet 128

Edsurge

MAY 7, 2018

Michelle Pacansky-Brock, from California Community Colleges Online Education Initiative, introduced the theme of “Humanizing Online Learning.” Learners come from all backgrounds with different needs so accessibility and equity must be at the core of designing learning experiences.

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Participation Course Design Instructors Discussions 121

Edsurge

MARCH 24, 2017

First the numbers: In the past year, we have published more than 300 articles about the shifting trends in higher ed, education technology and digital learning. Nearly half of you told us that we’re your top source for higher education news (thank you!) So, what have we gleaned? now subscribe to our newsletter, Next.

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Textbooks Learning Feedback Course Design 81

Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2018

The #DLNchat community also concurred that feedback is an important part of the learning process. Barjas-Murphy said, “Feedback may be one of the most critical elements of a course that motivates students and maintains engagement - so the course design needs to have SOMETHING that demonstrates the degree of progress - think game theory.”

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Assignments Exams Instructors Learning 92

Edsurge

MAY 7, 2020

Or maybe you’re actually kind of intrigued by this whole online learning thing. Either way, if you think it’s time to improve your online teaching game, you’ve come to the right place. Welcome to your summer crash course in online education. Remember there are humans on the other side of the screen.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 6, 2017

I became a Strava user in 2013, around the same time I became an online course designer. Quickly I found that even as I logged runs on Strava daily, I struggled to find the time to log into platforms like Coursera, Udemy or Udacity to finish courses produced by my fellow instructional designers. What was happening?

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Course Design Online Learning Teaching Feedback 147

Dangerously Irrelevant

APRIL 1, 2021

Transforming education in Australia and beyond. Blended and online learning with Catlin Tucker. MOOCs and open education in Southeast Asia. HyFlex course design: Conditions, controversy & craftsmanship. Innovative sustainable forest management education in the Asia-Pacific region. Student voices.

Fairness 130

Fairness Learning Course Design Discussions 130

Edsurge

APRIL 2, 2020

Some approaches to these problems may be policy-related, like funding or charter schools versus public schools, but it sounds like some of them are related to course design, or are technology-related? But another technology that we are very excited about is a virtual experimentation researcher system.

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Mental Models Education Ethics Learning 180

Edsurge

JANUARY 1, 2018

A Starter Kit For Instructional Designers When EdSurge columnist Amy Ahearn graduated from college in 2008, she had never heard of instructional design—let alone anticipate that she would soon have a career in it. Here’s a sneak peek at lesson one: Start with a deep understanding of your learners.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

This idea of the bundled set of services, including a financial risk sharing service in the form of a revenue sharing agreement, predates online learning by almost 20 years. In fact, Sperling and Murphy went on to found the University of Phoenix, which offered its first online course over the Prodigy network in 1989.

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