Distance Learning – Page 3

Online Teacher / On-Campus Students

May 21, 2021 Gary Natriello 0

Sometimes hybrids are awkward, ineffective, and out of place. At other times they combine the best of quite different breeds into something with unique capacity and impact. As educational institutions attempt to bridge the physical […]

Is Time Running Out for Industrial Era Education?

April 24, 2021 Gary Natriello 0

Writing in Fast Company, Candace Faktor suggests that TikTok may be one model for the future of education because it jettisons the trappings of industrial era education. With traditional education rooted in established institutions finding […]

World of EdCraft

March 21, 2021 Gary Natriello 0

Earlier I highlighted the innovative work of Sean Willems shared in a paper in which he described building his home teaching studio. Now Sean and his colleagues Andrew Lo and Brian Stevens have shared an […]

Surprise, Surprise – Not

February 21, 2021 Gary Natriello 0

Writing in The Guardian, John Naughton observes that the COVID19 pandemic may well accelerate the demise of the university as we know it, complete with its dominant mode of teaching and learning, the lecture. This […]

Courses of the Living Dead

January 23, 2021 Gary Natriello 0

BoingBoing is featuring a twitter thread in which a student discovers that the professor in the online course he has been taking died in 2019. Assuming the report is accurate in claiming that the university […]

The Distance Learning Gap

January 22, 2021 Gary Natriello 0

Writing in The Guardian, Sally Weale explains the wide gap in the distance learning experiences of rich and poor children in the UK as revealed by a study conducted by the Sutton Trust.. The COVID19 […]

Unbundling the University

December 3, 2020 Gary Natriello 0

There has been talk about unbundling the university for more than a decade, and a new research brief from CB Insights provide a comprehensive look at the wide variety of service providers interested in taking […]

Home Studio for Online Lectures

October 6, 2020 Gary Natriello 0

With many moving their face-to-face classes online it is a great time to consider ways to improve conditions for teaching from home and the impact of such conditions on students working at a distance. A […]

Google Makes a Move

September 25, 2020 Gary Natriello 0

Writing in Entrepreneur, Adrian Shepherd calls attention to Google’s recent move to enter the world of higher education by offering six month courses in areas in high demand from employers. In addition to targeting areas […]

Presence vs Privacy

September 8, 2020 Gary Natriello 0

With the transition to online classes due to the pandemic, there has been widespread adoption of Zoom and other platforms for synchronous video conferencing. Along with this has come the expectation that everyone participating in […]