In my first post on this topic, I raised the question of how we might assess student learning in the online environment — at least in history education. Today I want to raise the question of the possible economic impact of the online course tsunami on the traditional institutions of higher education. This topic is not…
Tag: Distance Education
It’s Nice to Be #2
While I was out of town and off the grid for a few days I got about 200 emails — par for the course in this world of email, email, and more email. One that I was glad to receive came from a colleague who pointed me to this story on people described as among…
The Online Course Tsunami
Higher education has been all aflutter the past year or so about the transformative potential of online and/or distance education mediated through digital media. While the buzz on this topic has waxed and waned since the late 1990s (Web 0.1 for those old enough to remember), now there is some big money behind some of…