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

Thursday, June 29, 2006
U.S. Department of Education Commission on the Future of Higher Education Draft Report Released
Quality and Innovation

4. We recommend that America’s colleges and universities embrace a culture of continuous innovation and quality improvement by developing new pedagogies, curricula, and technologies to improve learning, particularly in the area of science and mathematical literacy.
* Establish a federal fund to provide incentives for effective teaching, and use of the latest research in the rapidly growing areas such as neuroscience, cognitive science, and organizational sciences.
* Do more to support and harness the power of distance learning to meet educational needs of rural students, adult learners and workforce development

 



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