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Wednesday, October 24, 2007

More Online Enrollments by Andy Guess


Some 20 percent of all students took at least one such course last year, but rate of increase is slowing.

More students than ever are taking courses online, but that doesn’t mean the growth will continue indefinitely. That’s the takeaway from the Sloan Foundation’s latest survey, conducted with the Babson Survey Research Group, of colleges’ online course offerings.
With results from nearly 4,500 institutions of all types, the report, “Online Nation: Five Years of Growth in Online Learning”, found that in fall 2006, nearly 3.5 million students — or 19.8 percent of total postsecondary enrollments — took at least one course online. That’s a 9.7-percent increase over the previous year, but growth has been slowing significantly: last year, the jump was 36.5 percent
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Online Nation: Five Years of Growth in Online Learning by I. Elaine Allen and Jeff Seaman represents the fifth annual report on the state of online learning in U.S. higher education. This year’s study, like those for the previous four years, is aimed at answering some of the fundamental questions about the nature and extent of online education. Supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and based on responses from more than 2,500 colleges and universities, the study addresses the following key questions:
How Many Students are Learning Online?
Online Nation: Five Years of Growth in Online Learning
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More Online Enrollments by Andy Guess


Some 20 percent of all students took at least one such course last year, but rate of increase is slowing.

More students than ever are taking courses online, but that doesn’t mean the growth will continue indefinitely. That’s the takeaway from the Sloan Foundation’s latest survey, conducted with the Babson Survey Research Group, of colleges’ online course offerings.
With results from nearly 4,500 institutions of all types, the report, “Online Nation: Five Years of Growth in Online Learning”, found that in fall 2006, nearly 3.5 million students — or 19.8 percent of total postsecondary enrollments — took at least one course online. That’s a 9.7-percent increase over the previous year, but growth has been slowing significantly: last year, the jump was 36.5 percent
Read more...

Related link
Online Nation: Five Years of Growth in Online Learning by I. Elaine Allen and Jeff Seaman represents the fifth annual report on the state of online learning in U.S. higher education. This year’s study, like those for the previous four years, is aimed at answering some of the fundamental questions about the nature and extent of online education. Supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and based on responses from more than 2,500 colleges and universities, the study addresses the following key questions:
How Many Students are Learning Online?
Online Nation: Five Years of Growth in Online Learning
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See 2007's Best Online Courses from the Brandon Hall Research


Be sure to check out this new report containing 19 case studies and 17 excerpt recordings of the best custom content entries.


The case studies contained in this report feature:
  • A screen capture of the winning course
  • A link to view an online video recording of the entry
  • A description of the problem the course was designed to address
  • A description of the intended audience
  • The software tools that were used to create the course
  • The staffing, effort, and budget required to create the course
  • Judges' candid comments
  • Contact information for the entrant

This report can help take your custom built online courseware to a new level.


  • Find out what content development applications leading developers use to create their high-impact courses.
  • Plan your budget and staff accordingly by seeing how professional custom content providers manage a course development project.
  • Implement the best practices of professional developers to improve the training you provide.
  • If you're considering outsourcing a course development project, this report will provide a glimpse into the styles of the best courseware creators.
Find out about this report now:


Published October 2007
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See 2007's Best Online Courses from the Brandon Hall Research


Be sure to check out this new report containing 19 case studies and 17 excerpt recordings of the best custom content entries.


The case studies contained in this report feature:
  • A screen capture of the winning course
  • A link to view an online video recording of the entry
  • A description of the problem the course was designed to address
  • A description of the intended audience
  • The software tools that were used to create the course
  • The staffing, effort, and budget required to create the course
  • Judges' candid comments
  • Contact information for the entrant

This report can help take your custom built online courseware to a new level.


  • Find out what content development applications leading developers use to create their high-impact courses.
  • Plan your budget and staff accordingly by seeing how professional custom content providers manage a course development project.
  • Implement the best practices of professional developers to improve the training you provide.
  • If you're considering outsourcing a course development project, this report will provide a glimpse into the styles of the best courseware creators.
Find out about this report now:


Published October 2007
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Tuesday, October 23, 2007

Editor's Hand Picked Headline News


Homework: A Math Dilemma and What To Do About It
By Patricia Deubel, Ph.D.
The issue of assigning homework is controversial in terms of its purpose, what to assign, the amount of time needed to complete it, parental involvement, its actual affect on learning and achievement, and impact on family life and other valuable activities that occur outside of school hours. I have encountered all of those controversies in my years of teaching mathematics. Math homework is usually a daily event. Unfortunately, many teachers assign most homework from problem sets following the section of the text that was addressed that day. There is little differentiation. For the most part the entire class gets the same assignment. (In fairness, teachers do take into consideration the nature of those problems, which are often grouped by difficulty, deciding which to assign based on the general ability level of students in the class: below average, average, above average, or mixed.)


Microsoft Corporation in Redmond have just released the latest in a series of E'learning courses and clinics developed exclusively for them by UK Technical Communications company Content Master.
Content Master, with offices in the UK and USA, are already a major supplier of learning materials to Microsoft. In recent years they have extended the range of media formats supported to provide Microsoft and other clients with a range of services including the latest animation technologies, virtual computer hands-on labs and a full range of multimedia collateral, all based on the in depth technical knowledge of the Company's expanding team of technical experts.

Echelon brings centralised e-publishing of distance learning to Online Info 2007
A model for the central design and publishing of online qualification-based university and professional learning materials within the UK Government's 'Pathway to Professions' initiative is one of the learning design themes of Echelon Learning's stand (662) at December's Online Information exhibition and conference. Web-based 'Urban Design Skills' (UDS) learning has been commissioned from Echelon by the Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI) to act as a central resource for universities and institutes participating in the government sponsored Pathway to Professions initiative.

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Editor's Hand Picked Headline News


Homework: A Math Dilemma and What To Do About It
By Patricia Deubel, Ph.D.
The issue of assigning homework is controversial in terms of its purpose, what to assign, the amount of time needed to complete it, parental involvement, its actual affect on learning and achievement, and impact on family life and other valuable activities that occur outside of school hours. I have encountered all of those controversies in my years of teaching mathematics. Math homework is usually a daily event. Unfortunately, many teachers assign most homework from problem sets following the section of the text that was addressed that day. There is little differentiation. For the most part the entire class gets the same assignment. (In fairness, teachers do take into consideration the nature of those problems, which are often grouped by difficulty, deciding which to assign based on the general ability level of students in the class: below average, average, above average, or mixed.)


Microsoft Corporation in Redmond have just released the latest in a series of E'learning courses and clinics developed exclusively for them by UK Technical Communications company Content Master.
Content Master, with offices in the UK and USA, are already a major supplier of learning materials to Microsoft. In recent years they have extended the range of media formats supported to provide Microsoft and other clients with a range of services including the latest animation technologies, virtual computer hands-on labs and a full range of multimedia collateral, all based on the in depth technical knowledge of the Company's expanding team of technical experts.

Echelon brings centralised e-publishing of distance learning to Online Info 2007
A model for the central design and publishing of online qualification-based university and professional learning materials within the UK Government's 'Pathway to Professions' initiative is one of the learning design themes of Echelon Learning's stand (662) at December's Online Information exhibition and conference. Web-based 'Urban Design Skills' (UDS) learning has been commissioned from Echelon by the Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI) to act as a central resource for universities and institutes participating in the government sponsored Pathway to Professions initiative.

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Monday, October 22, 2007

Udutu: Online Course Authoring Tools


Udutu offers ground-breaking technology and easy to use online course authoring tools from the award winning team that pioneered the concept of reusable learning objects at Royal Roads University.
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Source: Distance-Educator.com
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Udutu: Online Course Authoring Tools


Udutu offers ground-breaking technology and easy to use online course authoring tools from the award winning team that pioneered the concept of reusable learning objects at Royal Roads University.
Read more...

Source: Distance-Educator.com
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Lecturers' attitudes about the use of learning management systems in engineering education: A Swedish case study


Just look at this interesting article, appears in the Australasian Journal of Educational Technology (AJET) 2007, 23(3), 327-349.

Lecturers' attitudes about the use of learning management systems in engineering education: A Swedish case study
By Ramon Garrote and Tomas Pettersson

The purpose of this study was to examine lecturers' attitudes towards learning management systems (LMS), with particular reference to identifying obstacles to increased use. At the University College of Borås, Sweden, 22 lecturers who had used WebCT during the previous 9 months were interviewed. The answers show that most of the lecturers, including those who only used minor parts of the LMS, believed that they could benefit from using a LMS in the future. The study did not support the hypothesis that fear of the complexity of the system or unwanted effects on education are important reasons for lecturers not to use the LMS. When lecturers decide individually to use tools in the LMS, the major concern is the initial amount of work compared with the expected benefits. Due to the benefits of a fully implemented LMS and the results of this study, it is recommended that institutions in higher education take actions to establish LMS as a standard tool, and support development of the lecturers' professional competence.

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Lecturers' attitudes about the use of learning management systems in engineering education: A Swedish case study


Just look at this interesting article, appears in the Australasian Journal of Educational Technology (AJET) 2007, 23(3), 327-349.

Lecturers' attitudes about the use of learning management systems in engineering education: A Swedish case study
By Ramon Garrote and Tomas Pettersson

The purpose of this study was to examine lecturers' attitudes towards learning management systems (LMS), with particular reference to identifying obstacles to increased use. At the University College of Borås, Sweden, 22 lecturers who had used WebCT during the previous 9 months were interviewed. The answers show that most of the lecturers, including those who only used minor parts of the LMS, believed that they could benefit from using a LMS in the future. The study did not support the hypothesis that fear of the complexity of the system or unwanted effects on education are important reasons for lecturers not to use the LMS. When lecturers decide individually to use tools in the LMS, the major concern is the initial amount of work compared with the expected benefits. Due to the benefits of a fully implemented LMS and the results of this study, it is recommended that institutions in higher education take actions to establish LMS as a standard tool, and support development of the lecturers' professional competence.

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