Posts Tagged ‘colleges and universities’
Growth of Online Education
Wednesday, December 7th, 2011
Online education is now expanding beyond the boutique and into the realm of mainstream. A recent article in Reuters noted that some 6.1 million students have now enrolled in some type of online program in the US alone. By far it seems that the most popular online degree programs are MBA programs and companies such as 2tor are leading the way in allowing traditional colleges and universities to hit the ground running as it were. These companies such as 2tor and competitors such as Bisk and Princeton simply allow colleges and university to purchase their services and then rebrand the online programs as their own. Simple. The efficiency of these online programs is that they facilitate the ease at which students can complete the work by contracting with online writing services and this allows the students to focus on their own lives and families while still obtaining training or a degree.
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College & Twitter
Sunday, February 7th, 2010
Some professors are finally beginning to see the light. While most colleges and universities and certainly most professors and faculty view technology as a threat, a brave few are promoting it as a means to improve the educational process and make the college or university experience more relevant for students today. An adjunct professor has just begun to incorporate Twitter into his class format by encouraging students in class to tweet notes back and forth which essentially creates another level of dialogue in the classroom. This method also encourages those who would not normally participate to begin to interact with their peers. However, there were of course some objections from the dinosaurs within the educational establishment who consider this strategy to be another opportunity for distraction. Of course, this possibility exists but just because the methodology needs to be improved does not mean that this is not an effective method to adapt, innovate and make more relevant the 21st century classroom.
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