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What are the roles and responsibilities of the online instructor as compared to ground-based instructors.
One of the pertinent issues facing online faculty is to understand what our students; expectations are concerning our roles and responsibilities within the classroom setting. Although many faculty may understand the traditional face-to-face classroom paradigm, given that is what many faculty experienced in their studies, the online environment in many aspects present new challenges and new opportunities. The traditional face-to-face classroom-setting paradigm of teaching typically involves a…
Inside Higher Ed’s Carl Straumsheim writes about online educations implications for liberal arts institutions and how online education can drive down costs.
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E-mail verses Voice-to-voice
I recently complete a qualitative case study concerning the effective use of communication during periods of organizational change. One of the central themes that developed during my analysis was the use of different communication modality for conveying different type of information. The findings indicated voice-to-voice modality of communication was best for nuanced or complicated information that had long-term consequences. E-mail communications was preferred for information less nuance and…
What the controversy in the Atlanta Public Schools can tell us.
As many of you have heard, there may have been wide spread cheating committed by teachers and administers in the Atlanta Public School District according to reports. The scandal involves teachers and administration changing the incorrect answers students gave on standardized tests to the correct answers in an effort to improve the district's test scores. Although it may take months (perhaps years) for the particulars of the alleged scandal to become public, the situation brings up several…
The Benefits and Drawbacks of Social Media in the Online Classroom
How to use the "social media effect" to your advantage
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