At yesterday’s Horizon Forum meeting, Chris Dede delivered a presentation via Skype on using multiple-user virtual environments in educational contexts. These environments, he argues, allows students to co-design and co-instruct their own educational experiences, allowing for guided social constructivism and learning that goes beyond what traditional schools try to accomplish through test-based assessments. Scott McLeod [...]
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Virtual teachers and virtual ecophagy
11/21/2006
Two articles surfaced recently regarding Second Life. First, CNN reports that over 60 educational organizations are using Second Life to explore how to promote learning in the virtual world. Whereas there is a concern that mainstay online education providers do not provide a sense of community or social interaction, virtual, three-dimensional online communities may fill [...]
E-learning continues to grow
11/10/2006
The Sloan Consortium of online education institutions released its fourth annual report on the state of online learning in the United States. The report series asks key questions in regard to the extent of adoption and acceptance of online education. Among the findings: Online enrollment continues to grow, climbing to 3.2 million learners in 2006 [...]
LA Times: Colleges see the future in technology
9/14/2006
The Los Angeles Times recently ran a story on the adoption of technology in California’s higher education institutions. Gaming and simulation technologies are being explored to provide “more individualized instruction” that cater to both emotional and learning needs of students. Carol Twigg at the National Center for Academic Transformation is looking at online education. Writes [...]
Dissertation: A New Paradigm
6/21/2006
John Moravec‘s doctoral dissertation, A New Paradigm of Knowledge Production in Minnesota Higher Education: A Delphi Study, is available for order from ProQuest. A B S T R A C T The convergence of globalization, emergence of the knowledge society and accelerating change contribute to what might be best termed a New Paradigm of [...]
A boost to online universities
3/4/2006
The US Congres recently opened the flow of student financial aid to online universities. Since 1992, the government required that, to be eligible for financial aid, higher education institutions must provide at least half of their classes in person. This change brings new competitive challenges to “traditional” universities. The influence of for-profit institutions is growing. [...]
Sloan-C: Mainstreaming of online education
1/16/2006
The Sloan Consortium, an online education group, finds that 2.35 million people took an online course in 2004. Furthermore: The overall percent of schools identifying online education as a critical long-term strategy grew from 49% in 2003 to 56% in 2005. The largest increases were seen in Associates degree institutions where 72% now agree that [...]
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