Monthly Archives: May 2012
The Chronicle of Higher Education’s Wired Campus blog last week highlighted a new study that bolsters the notion that student learning outcomes are the same in hybrid courses as they are in a traditional classroom. The findings come from a study released last Tuesday by Ithaka S+R, a nonprofit dedicated to helping the academic community use technology to advance research and teaching in sustainable ways. Hybrid courses are taught partly online and partly face-to-face, and an increasing number of studies … Continue reading
ITHAKA, a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping the academic community use digital technologies to advance research and teaching in sustainable ways, this week released a study that examines the obstacles preventing higher education institutions in the United State from embracing online learning systems. Here is a quick overview of the study and its proposed solutions: The purpose of this study is to explore the key obstacles that stand in the way of widespread adoption of highly interactive, adaptive, online learning … Continue reading