Problem Based Learning (PBL)

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Online Learning

• Trends and Implications

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Enrollments in Online Learning
Taken from Staying the Course - Online Education
in the United States, 2008, a survey of more
than 2,500 universities and colleges sponsored by
the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
(http//sloanconsortium.org/publications/survey/pd
f/staying_the_course.pdf)
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Sloan Survey Summary

• Online enrollments continue to grow at rates far
  in excess of the total higher education student
  population, with no signs of slowing.
• Over twenty percent of all U.S. higher education
  students were taking at least one online course
  in the fall of 2007.
• 58 of the sampled institutions state that online
  learning is critical to their institutional
  strategy.
• Taken from Staying the Course - Online
  Education in the United States, 2008, an annual
  survey of more than 2,500 universities and
  colleges sponsored by the Sloan Consortium.
  http//sloanconsortium.org/publications/survey/pdf
  /staying_the_course.pdf

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Why Online Learning?

• Flexibility, Convenience, Economy, Efficiency.

From Student Success and Retention in Online
Courses, Bellevue Community College, November
2006, http//www.sbctc.ctc.edu/docs/data/stdt_succ
ess_retention_in_online_courses_bcc.pdf
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Less Important Reasons
From Student Success and Retention in Online
Courses, Bellevue Community College, November
2006, http//www.sbctc.ctc.edu/docs/data/stdt_succ
ess_retention_in_online_courses_bcc.pdf
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Why NOT Online Learning?
From Student Success and Retention in Online
Courses, Bellevue Community College, November
2006, http//www.sbctc.ctc.edu/docs/data/stdt_succ
ess_retention_in_online_courses_bcc.pdf
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Whats Changed Out There?

• Social Trends
• Technology goes Main Street
• Moore's Law processor speed doubles every 18
  months
• Cell Phones, GPS, MP3 players, smart cars
• Use of Internet for everyday (leisure) tasks
• shopping, reading, movies, TV, radio, etc.
• GenNet - the Internet has always been there.
• Instant Messenger, email, music files, INTERNET!
• MySpace, FaceBook, You-Tube, INTERNET!
• Social networking, entertainment, INTERNET!
• The nature of education is changing. Recommended
• Portal to Information Literacy (http//www.youtube
  .com/watch?vJ4yApagnr0s)
• New Answers for E-Learning Wikis and avatars
  are improving the educational experience
  (http//www.usnews.com/articles/education/e-learni
  ng/2008/01/10/new-answers-for-e-learning.html,
  2008)

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Its Quiz Time !
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Q A
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Third Floor Contains large-scale structures that
support new educational concepts such as
Distributed Learning and Online Learning
Second Floor Contains enhancements to 1st floor
practices Requires the use of instructional
technologies
First Floor

Real-Time Interactions -Seminars Office Hours
Time-Delayed Interactions -Homework
Learning By Doing-Labs -Writing -Libraries
Directed Lecture-Lecture Hall-Textbooks
Basement Contains traditional technologies
textbooks, audiovisual materials, etc. Contains
infrastructure to use these technologies
libraries, labs, etc.
Stephen C. Ehrmann (1998) Technology in Higher
Education
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Technology Adoption Lifecycle
From Crossing the Chasm, Geoffery A. Moore, 1998
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Moores Chasm
From Crossing the Chasm, Geoffery A. Moore, 1998