Kevin Kelly –
Author of Advancing Online Teaching: Creating Equity-Based Digital Learning Environments.
Higher education has made an astonishing national transition to online learning. Traditional classrooms may be closed across campuses, but class is still in session, as faculty have gone above and beyond to ensure that their students keep learning.
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Online Learning: Where did we come from, where are we going?
As online and hybrid education enters its third decade, there are significant efforts to move beyond the virtualization of traditional face-to-face classroom and to also move beyond earlier business models.
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Increasing Equity for Online Learners: Course and Campus Level Strategies
First, the good news: Overall retention and success rates for online learners have almost reached parity with those for on-ground learners. However, there’s still work to do: Large, equity-based achievement gaps still exist for a number of student sub-populations, such as Black/African-American and Latinx students, first generation students, and foster youth.
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Navigating the OPM Marketplace: Picking the Right Partners While Avoiding Market Chaos
Online Program Management (OPM) companies have been around for two decades, helping colleges and universities create scalable online programs, in a growing and important market. The OPM market is a chaotic one, however, and it would be a mistake for a school to evaluate the market without understanding the changing vendor landscape and underlying trends.
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Online Student Community: What do students need from us?
The effective practice of encouraging community in our online classes has been with us a long time. However, the imminent addition of a requirement for student-to-student interaction to our DE regulations should cause us to reimagine how we make it a priority.
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