[Okgrantsmanship] News Digest: Measuring the success of online education

Fri Jan 25 10:18:53 CST 2013

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January 24, 2013
Vol. 1, Issue 66

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"One of the dirty secrets about MOOCs - massive open online courses, is that they are not very effective, at least if you measure effectiveness in terms of completion rates. If as few as 20 percent of students finishing an online course is considered a wild success and 10 percent and lower is standard, then it would appear that MOOCs are still more of a hobby than a viable alternative to traditional classroom education."
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"Community colleges are doing more with less, writes Walter Bumphus, president and CEO of the American Association of Community Colleges, in Community College Week. But there are limits to what the hard-pressed system can do well. The fundamental question in analyzing the ever-evolving mission of the community college is, 'where do we draw the line?' Prepare students for transfer? Check. Deliver a skilled workforce? Check. Provide lifelong learning and community service? Count on the community’s college. Now some states are making our colleges the linchpin in plans to deliver more baccalaureate completers — the $10,000 proposition that governors in Texas and Florida are making political hay by promoting."
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"The needs of 'post-traditional learners' are being neglected amid all the attention being paid to MOOCs and other technological innovations in higher education, according to a new paper commissioned by the American Council on Education and written by Louis Soares, a special policy adviser to Molly Corbett Broad, the ACE’s president. In the paper, 'Post-traditional Learners and the Transformation of Postsecondary Education: A Manifesto for College Leaders,' Mr. Soares concludes that such adult learners, ages 25 to 64 and lacking a college credential, are being underserved by current higher-education institutions even as their share of enrollments grows—a trend that represents a much more significant shift than the advent of new technologies for distance education."
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