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Online Learning Goes Hollywood

Online Learning Goes Hollywood

EducationText.org  By Michael B. Horn Using video storytelling to motivate learning Hollywood is coming to a university near you—as nearby as the closest computer screen. Educators are attempting to harness the power of the industry that commands our attention at the movies (and on our tablets, televisions, and phones) for students […]

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Reducing Transactional Distance: Engaging Online Students in Higher Education

Reducing Transactional Distance: Engaging Online Students in Higher Education

The Evolllution Reducing Transactional Distance: Engaging Online Students in Higher Education Amanda Major | Instructional Designer in the Center for Distributed Learning, University of Central FloridaJennifer Sumner | Director of the UCF Online Connect Center and Strategic Initiatives for UCF Connect, University of Central Florida       Reducing transactional distance is […]

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Online university picks pace over prestige on path to accreditation

Online university picks pace over prestige on path to accreditation

Inside Higher Ed The Accreditation Race Arkansas’s new public online university chooses national accreditor over its regional agency, raising questions about pace, prestige and the state of quality assurance. By Lindsay McKenzie September 8, 2017 When the University of Arkansas System envisioned creating the online-only institution eVersity in 2014, it planned […]

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Brown Orders Creation of Online Community College

Brown Orders Creation of Online Community College

techwire.net Brown Orders Creation of Online Community College BY KAYLA NICK-KEARNEY | JUNE 30, 2017     Gov. Jerry Brown has directed California Community Colleges Chancellor Eloy Ortiz Oakley to create a fully online-only community college. The memo directing Oakley to create the college included a deadline to submit a plan for […]

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