Nearly 30 percent of all college and university students now take at least one course online. As adoption of online learning continues to increase, issues related to scale — such as quality, access and acceptance — become paramount.
In the latest issue of the Sloan Consortium’s (Sloan-C) scholarly periodical, Journal of Asynchronous Learning Networks, experts describe the practice and potential of online education. For instance, John Sener reasons that online education “will soon become a routine, commonplace and integral part of the educational experience.”
Meanwhile, Anthony Picciano, Jeff Seaman and Elaine Allen use six years of data on K-20 online learning to explore transformation as it relates to the growth of online learning, institutional mission, student access, faculty acceptance, instructional quality and student satisfaction.
–More info: http://sloanconsortium.org/publications/jaln_main
Nearly 30 percent of all college and university students now take at least one course online. As adoption of online learning continues to increase, issues related to scale — such as quality, access and acceptance — become paramount.
In the latest issue of the Sloan Consortium’s (Sloan-C) scholarly periodical, Journal of Asynchronous Learning Networks, experts describe the practice and potential of online education. For instance, John Sener reasons that online education “will soon become a routine, commonplace and integral part of the educational experience.”
Meanwhile, Anthony Picciano, Jeff Seaman and Elaine Allen use six years of data on K-20 online learning to explore transformation as it relates to the growth of online learning, institutional mission, student access, faculty acceptance, instructional quality and student satisfaction.
–More info: http://sloanconsortium.org/publications/jaln_main
