Distance and Online Learning
The demand for distance and online educational formats is rapidly growing, but this means more than simply changing the way education is delivered. With the growth of online learning, the entire student management infrastructure needs to evolve to ensure these students are being engaged properly.
Improving Access and Cutting Red Tape: How SARA Is Reducing Bureaucratic Hurdles to Distance Education
Marshall Hill | Executive Director, National Council for State Authorization Reciprocity Agreements (NC-SARA)In our country, both K-12 and postsecondary education are largely under the oversight and control of the states. And while states generally oversee education with similar broad goals, policies and…
Four Key Considerations to Guide a University’s OPM Partnership
Christina Trombley | Executive Director for Drake Online, Drake UniversityThe number of online program management (OPM) companies may have tripled in the past decade, according to Inside Higher Ed. As more and more higher education institutions face flat or…
How Student-Centricity and Substantive Interaction Take CBE to the Next Level
Margaret Moodian | Tutorial Assistant Professor of Humanities and Social Sciences, Brandman UniversityMany people often question whether online teaching in a competency-based education (CBE) program can have the same impact on students’ lives as face-to-face teaching or traditional online programs. My answer…
Maintaining the Faculty Voice in Asynchronous Online Courses
Dan Donaldson | Dean of the School of Professional Studies, National UniversityAnxiety about teaching used to be confined largely to staying up to date on the subject matter I was teaching and getting up to speed on new learning technologies (if…
The Science of Digital Growth: Exploring Best Practices in Online Programming and Innovation
Lou Pugliese | Senior Innovation Fellow and Managing Director of Technology at the Innovation Action Lab, Arizona State UniversityIn March 2018, the EdPlus Action Lab at Arizona State University released Making Digital Learning Work: Success Strategies from Six Leading Universities and Community Colleges. The comprehensive study, conducted in…
Partnering Internally to Grow Online: How to Support Online Expansion as a Service Provider
Kim Siegenthaler | Director of Mizzou Online, University of MissouriDemand for online education is on the rise and many colleges and universities are scrambling to meet it. After all, this modality allows for the expansion of access to institutional…
From First Steps to Next Steps: The Online First Year Experience (OFYE) (Part 2)
Jamie Holcomb | Associate Dean of Faculty and First-Year Experience, Southern New Hampshire UniversityThis is the second installment of a two-part series by Holcomb, Jackson, Korstange and Hall describing the factors that go into serving first-time online learners. In the first installment, the…