May 2006, Vol. 5, Issue 5
ON INTEROPERABILITY, OPEN SOURCE, DIGITAL REPOSITORIES, RICH
MEDIA, AND MORE
The backbone of almost every article published in
Educational Pathways is built around in-depth telephone
interviews with key administrators, faculty and staff who
work directly inside the field of online teaching and
learning in higher education. In similar fashion, a long
talk with Rob Abel, the new executive director of IMS Global
Learning Consortium (IMS/GLC), brought more important online
teaching and learning issues to light for publication here.
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DEALING EFFECTIVELY WITH CLASS SIZE ISSUES
By John Sener. Class size is a key component of course
design, delivery cost, learning effectiveness, faculty and
student satisfaction, and many other important factors in
fully online and blended courses. One widely held view is
that the “ideal” maximum class size is relatively small (10
to 25 students). Although plenty of opinion and anecdotal
experience support this view of class size, such
conventional wisdom is typically a reflexive application of
classroom design mores and principles that have been applied
to online and blended learning environments.
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"ENTERING THE AGE OF BRANDS"
The 3rd Annual Presidents’ Forum of Excelsior College, held
on March 28, brought together a strong group of experienced
educational leaders and stakeholders from the distance
learning community. Peter Stokes, executive vice president
of Eduventures, LLC, a Boston-based research and consulting
firm, gave a keynote presentation titled “Entering the Age
of Brands: Growing Online Higher Education Enrollments in a
Maturing Market.”
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