Over the years we have witnessed an ever-growing migration of students from brick-and-mortar universities, schools and colleges, to virtual institutions of learning online. In fact, entrepreneurship scholars Elaine Allen and Jeff Seaman noted (PDF) that “online enrollments have been growing substantially faster than overall higher education enrollments” and that “[o]nline enrollments have continued to grow [...]
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Learning online vs. face-to-face instruction
Posted: by Rudy Nadler-Nir in NarrativesTags: a-synchronicity, asynchronicity, asynchronous, available on demand, brick-and-mortar universities, collaborative environment, computer-mediated collaborative learning, constructionism, constructionist, disconnectedness, dropout, elaine allen, higher education enrollments, higher education enrolments, isolation, jeff seaman, karen frankola, martin dougiamas, moodle, non-traditional students, one-to-many, one-to-one, online enrollments, online enrolments, online instruction, sloan-c, virtual institutions of learning online
We’re Here to Bury Comments, Not to Praise Them
Posted: by Rudy Nadler-Nir in NarrativesTags: born digital, Chris Saad, collective intelligence, commenting engine, content and gestures, CrunchUp 2009, Digital Natives, digital technologies, Electric and synaptic technologies, Eric Blantz, Implicit information, information flows, internet evolution, James W. Carey, JS-Kit, Khris Loux, localised dialogue synatpticweb.org, Marshall McLuhan, moodle, nervous system, parallel channels, ReadWriteWeb, social constructionism, social graph, split and parallel dialogues, TechCrunch, the electrical network, The Synaptic Web, unified field of experience
In the beginning was Marshall McLuhan, who would have celebrated his 98th birthday these days, but more about him later. When I launched this blog almost two years ago, I decided not to accept comments: I observed how other blogs got inundated with horrific verbiage, often unrelated to the piece the comment was supposed to [...]