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Distance Education

Distance Education. Approaches to distance teaching and the prevalence of distance education. Classifications. (Allen & Seaman, 2013) . Higher Ed Distance Education. NCM Horizon Report: Higher Ed.

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Distance Education

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  1. Distance Education Approaches to distance teaching and the prevalence of distance education.

  2. Classifications (Allen & Seaman, 2013)

  3. Higher Ed Distance Education

  4. NCM Horizon Report: Higher Ed • Report designed to help education leaders, policy makers, and faculty understand new and emerging technologies, and their potential impact on teaching, learning, and research • To create the report, an international body of experts in education, technology, and other fields convened as an advisory board. Near-term Horizon-> Mid-term Horizon-> Far-term Horizon

  5. Near-Term Horizon for Higher Ed:#1 Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) • Typically free to students • One of the fastest technology uptakes ever seen in higher education • Expected to keep growing • Critics warn again quality and lecture style • “Only 2.6 percent of higher education institutions currently have a MOOC, another 9.4 percent report MOOCs are in the planning stages.” (Allen & Seaman, 2013)

  6. 300+ courses in over 20 categories created by 62 Universities from 16 countries • Free to participants, Universities pay Coursera • 3 million Courserians in 2013 • Low completion rates (Wikipedia, 2013)

  7. (Wikipedia, 2013)

  8. MOOC Business Models (Wikipedia, 2013)

  9. Non-MOOC Distance Education: Higher Ed

  10. Model: Fully online program • University of Phoenix peak enrollment was 600,000 students • The University of Phoenix closed 115 of its campuses in 2013, previously having over 200

  11. http://www.hawaii.edu/dl/psprograms • “Over 600 course sections across more than 80 different subjects are being offered through distance learning at the University of Hawai’i this fall.”

  12. K-12 Distance Education

  13. 4,000 micro lectures • Khan Academy has delivered over 240 million lessons

  14. A school in the cloud

  15. Countless models • cybercharter • cyberschool • distance education • distance learning • elearning • mlearning • online school • open learning • open school • schoolnet • telelearning • virtual charter • virtual school

  16. Distance Ed K-12 in Hawaii Full programs: • Laupahoehoe- 200 students • Hawai’i Tech Academy – 1091 students • Myron B Thompson – 454 students Supplementary: • E-school • E2020 Partnered schools sharing a teacher virtually

  17. References • Allen, I. E., & Seaman, J. (2013). Changing Course: Ten Years of Tracking Online Education in the United States. ERIC. Retrieved from http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/recordDetail?accno=ED541571 • Catropa, D. (February 24, 2013). "Big (MOOC) Data". Inside Higher Ed. Retrieved March 27, 2013. • Johnson, L., Adams Becker, S., Cummins, M., Estrada, V., Freeman, A., and Ludgate, H. (2013). NMC Horizon Report: 2013 Higher Education Edition. Austin, Texas: The New Media Consortium. • Johnson, L., Adams Becker, S., Cummins, M., Estrada, V., Freeman, A., and Ludgate, H. (2013). NMC Horizon Report: 2013 K-12Edition. Austin, Texas: The New Media Consortium. • Massive open online course. (2013, June 19). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 00:19, June 21, 2013, from http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Massive_open_online_course&oldid=560667410

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