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| How Will Online Courses Weather the Economic Downturn?
| | In the minds of most e-learning professionals, the University of Phoenix is closely tied to the concept of online courses, at least in part because the for-profit institution's pop-up advertisements for them are so ubiquitous. In fact, the university's students racked up a hefty $2.8 billion in federal loans and grants in fiscal year 2008, according to the government site Top 100 Recipients of Federal Assistance. How the economic downturn is going to affect general college enrollment in 2009 is not yet clear, but the emerging consensus is that community colleges will likely get a bump in enrollment while four-year institutions may struggle. Online enrollment, however, is expected to do well across most institutions.
| 2010-08-30 09:00pm | |
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| Accidental Homeschoolers
| | The media creates an image of homeschoolers as a backward-looking dogmatic group who are withdrawing from mainstream society, but this is far from the truth. Indeed, homeschoolers are often progressive, pragmatic, highly sociable, and enthusiastic e-learning families. This article describes the path many parents have taken after placing their children in traditional schools, becoming dissatisfied, and then shifting to homeschooling as an 'accidental' change in direction.
| 2010-08-30 08:00pm | |
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| Connecting with Students through Inventive Marketing
| | Lisa Neal Gualtieri interviewed Keith Bourne about marketing online programs. Given the current economic state, what are the primary advantages and disadvantages of a solely online marketing strategy?
| 2010-08-30 08:00pm | |
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| Five Questions ... For George Siemens
| | George Siemens is the author of Knowing Knowledge and the recently released Handbook of Emerging Technologies for Learning. He is also associate director of research and development with the Learning Technologies Centre at the University of Manitoba and is the founder and president of Complexive Systems Inc., a learning lab focused on helping organizations develop integrated learning structures to meet the needs of global strategy execution. Lisa Gualtieri interviewed him about educational systems.
| 2010-08-30 08:00pm | |
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| Five Questions ... for Ben Sawyer
| | Ben Sawyer, co-founder of Digitalmill, organizes the annual Games for Health Conference. The conference is produced by the Games for Health Project, which is sponsored by the Pioneer Portfolio of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Leading the project, Ben has single-handedly pulled together a diverse community of people working on video games used in therapeutic practices, to teach health professionals, and for increasing education and adherence in patients with the goal of improving health through games and their associated technologies.
| 2010-08-30 08:00pm | |
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| Paying Teachers for Performance
| | Basing teachers' raises, salary grade, bonuses, or commissions on their performance, or that of their students, is a topic that sparks energetic debate. Many argue merit pay has a long history of working in the private sector and there is no reason not to use similar metrics to pay for what you want in education. Those opposed say there is no clear-cut way to determine whether a teacher is performing well. But would offering teachers a bonus in the pay packet make for better student scores on these tests?
| 2010-08-30 08:00pm | |
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| Five Questions for Michelle Cardinal
| | Michelle Cardinal, director of conferences for IQPC, was interviewed on her use of social media, which she used heavily in planning and promoting the Corporate University Summit.
| 2010-08-30 08:00pm | |
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| Patterns in e-Learning Standards and Specifications
| | E-learning standards and specifications display common patterns in the ways they support various aspects of educational and meta-educational activities and processes. This article considers the nature of these design patterns, and it suggests how (once identified) they can enable better educational technology designs, and how they can be analyzed to better understand the philosophy and practice of contemporary technology-mediated education.
| 2010-08-30 07:00pm | |
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