Cons of Outsourcing Online Education
Locked into long-term contracts (7-10 years)
Giving away of profits (50-80% typically to partner)
Less opportunity for sharing learning across continuum of fully online, blended and on-campus models
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"Changes in society, student expectations, and technology are motivating university and college faculty and instructors to rethink pedagogy and teaching methods." This is long overdue.
After exploring several excellent CC online course quality standards and rubrics, I've selected CSU's Quality Learning and Teaching instrument for our Teaching Online Workshop.
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Actually, Academe Never Was All That Great https://t.co/1EpDIeGObS
Time to make it great for all, not just a small segment of society. "Rather than trying to recreate an idealized past, we should be trying to create a more equitable future."
Help determine the top themes in #TeachingandLearning. Take the 2019 ELI Key Issues in Teaching & Learning survey: https://t.co/8eEVIJKoru #ELIKeyIssues#ELI2019
“Priorities and jobs are changing more quickly, so we need an agile learning environment that anticipates what learning needs will be, and where we can quickly access them.” (2017) https://t.co/wLLT3RMey9 #highered#onlineed
To Get Buy In for New Ideas at Colleges, Don’t Call It ‘Disruption’ https://t.co/lbZw9Mrkdf #edtech via @HigherEdSurge Hmm, some faculty don't like techie jargon like “disruptive” and “innovate.” Why not?
California Lawmakers Include $100 Million in State Budget to Create an Online Community College https://t.co/DDH8GS16Eg via @ktla New online CC is targeting “stranded workers,” people in jobs that will eventually be eliminated because of automation. Will other states follow?
"Institutions of #highered are notoriously bad at collaborating with one another and scaling the impact of what we do for all of our students." (2017) https://t.co/uSl84mByxJ
For a discussion of 21st century skills and their development, see my review of 'Humans Wanted' at https://t.co/RcNqs06iX5. What 21st century skills are you teaching - and how?
Why don’t college faculty need to know anything about teaching and learning before they start teaching our students? Why isn't teaching valued in higher education? These are the issues HEDisrupted will be tweeting about.