Monthly Archives: July 2012
[A message from Dave King, associate provost of Oregon State University Outreach and Engagement; and Lisa L. Templeton, executive director of Oregon State University Extended Campus] No doubt you’ve seen several stories lately in the news about what some people are calling MOOCs – Massive Open Online Classes – with 160,000 or so students in online open courseware classes. (See below.) The increased profile of these classes and the new enterprises involved in their development raise questions about what it … Continue reading
Simply adding a video component to an online course does not automatically improve its quality, but a recent study seems to show pretty conclusively that learners respond well to video lectures as a way of receiving course content. The study was conducted by Debbie Morrison, an online course developer at The Master’s College near Los Angeles, and as she noted in her blog post, the pool of students surveyed was relatively small. However, 90 percent of the learners who took … Continue reading