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Sunday, February 15, 2009
Online Learning: The future of learning - Maggie Clark, Imprint the University of Waterloo
Some time after numerous recommendations pertaining to graduate studies were presented, and before the matter of PDEng becoming a mandatory math faculty co-op requirement was tabled for the next UW Senate meeting, a set of recommendations emerged, and were adopted, that could significantly impact the primary form of learning at UW. A report by the Task force on Online Learning, comprised of Associate VP Academic Geoff McBoyle, Dean of Arts Ken Coates, Renison College Principal John Crossley, and Institutional Analysis and Planning Director Bob Truman, highlights the dramatically increased role of new technology in university education to date, and from these trends recommends an action plan that fully embraces the move to online learning. According to the task force report, “for the past two Spring convocations ... 50 per cent of the graduation cohort has taken at least one course via [Distance education],” More notably, Spring 2008 saw “more than 80 per cent of these registrations coming from ‘on-campus students,’” a figure signifying that, far from being the choice of part-time and travelling students alone, online courses are actively selected over on-campus, in-class alternatives.
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