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

Wednesday, August 26, 2009
Online learning takes more than a webcam in the classroom - Jennifer Imsande, Minnesota Public Radio
Two-thirds of colleges and universities in the United States now have online courses. Yet most professors write their lectures and discussions as if for a live class, upload lecture notes or video to the Internet and call it a day. Because we want to reproduce on the Web what happens in the classroom. But the Internet does for students what the transportation revolution did for travelers: It changes their expectations for the speed of travel, the range of destinations and their control over movement.

 



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