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Hybrids Rule

By Ann York

Yes, I do truly love my Prius, but here I am discussing another kind of hybrid: a course that involves both online and classroom learning. An Inside Higher Ed report of new research from South Texas College indicates that 82 percent of students in hybrid courses were successful (that is, that got an A,... »

Back to the Future

By Ann York

Following up on a theme discussed in a recent PowerProfs post on the evolution of educators from a stand and deliver classroom teachers to a supercharged E-mentors using a variety of online tools, I read this article in the NY Times with interest: “SINCE the 16th century, the ideal of education has been the tutorial... »

Will this be on the test?

By Ann York

An Inside Higher Ed blog Demand and Supply By Joshua Kim asks questions we here at PowerProfs have pondered: “Why do students seem content with a lecture based class system? Why aren’t students asking for creative course projects that use media and multiple intelligences, rather than the traditional end-of-term paper?” In our research on best practices... »

Educators of the Future

By Ann York

Inside Higher Ed ran an interview with Curtis J. Bonk, a professor of instructional systems technology at Indiana University, and author of the book The World Is Open: How Web Technology is Revolutionizing Education. After discussing the open education movement, and outlining some factors or “openers” that are facilitating this transition in education, Bonk... »

Student Expectations Seen as Causing Grade Disputes – NYTimes.com

By Ann York

Student Expectations Seen as Causing Grade Disputes – NYTimes.com. This article discusses a phenomenon many of us have experienced: “Many students come in with the conviction that they’ve worked hard and deserve a higher mark,” Professor Grossman said. He attributes those complaints to his students’ sense of entitlement. A recent study by researchers at the University of... »

The Screen is Flat

By Ann York

We are here at the MERLOT International Conference 2008 in Minneapolis, preparing for the presentation Becky Hines, Fritz Nordengren and I will give tomorrow in the Reinventing Libraries track. The title of the talk is “The Screen is Flat” (hat tip to Becky for this creative take on the popular book). We have ... »

What is work?

By Ann York

This was an agenda item of one of our recent faculty meetings. As online course enrollment continues to grow, no doubt fueled by the recent spike in gas prices, we online teaching faculty are finding the lines of work blurring more often into evenings and weekends since that is when many of our graduate... »