Online Learning Update Ray Schroeder, editor, COLRS - Online@Illinois Springfield

Online Learning Update - a blog published daily since 2001 by Ray Schroeder, Professor Emeritus, University of Illinois at Springfield

Saturday, June 01, 2002

http://www.dartmouth.edu/~webteach/cases/losh.html

Ressources for Large--Enrollment Online Courses
Elizabeth Losh, University of California at Irvine

Many educators and administrators see instructional technology as a way to solve at least some of the challenges inherent in offering large-enrollment courses. When hundreds or even thousands of students are enrolled in a single course, the limitations of the traditional lecture/discussion model become all too evident. For instructors, the logistical challenges of coordinating a large course are daunting, and students often feel alienated in a course where their voice is only one in a thousand. Many institutions look to IT for solutions; indeed, much of the grant monies available in support of educational computing initiatives is earmarked for projects that attempt to overcome the pedagogical and fiscal shortcoming of high enrollments....

 



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