Often, faculty who teach online courses know little about the students who enter their online classrooms. I know that my current students are practicing professionals enrolled in an online accelerated program in order to earn a Bachelor of Science degree, Read More >
Archives - March, 2015
We tell our students they should be spending so much time on preparing, discussing, and doing their assignments based on the Federal Definition of the work needed for a course credit but what do we tell the faculty? The first Read More >
Adult learning is an important topic for anyone engaged in the delivery of online higher education. Adults have unique learning needs and to be effective, instructors must take these needs into consideration. Adult learners have incredible resilience, zeal, and incentive Read More >
Of the many obstacles that online learning presents, combatting academic dishonesty is among the most challenging. It is hard to envision a scenario where a student completes an online quiz (or test) without using their phone, tablet, or other device Read More >
You know who loves change? Not most people. I’ve been hearing and seeing a lot about change lately, and it’s gotten me thinking. How do we manage change so that we don’t lose our strongest talent? Higher education is changing Read More >
Whether we engage a retrospective and look back 20 years or fast forward 20 years, either direction the higher education landscape changes. What will the higher education institution of the future look like? How will the learning experience morph? What Read More >
The summer schedules have come out at the Community College where I teach and students are starting to deliberate how bad they want their summer off. Their thought pattern is simple, as many of us had it when we were Read More >
Some may not realize that the first OLC Collaborate in Kansas City actually started with a potential disaster. Marshall Hill, the Executive Director of NC-SARA and the first keynote speaker of the day was stuck in Denver! As it turned Read More >