Online Education

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In the last 10-15 years, there has been a dramatic shift from traditional physical classroom post-secondary education toward the asynchronous online educational model. Today, most every state university and college delivers education using online and classroom approaches. It appears though that this shift has not impressed the talent recruiters. Traditional universities offering classroom education are still their preferred recruiting sources. This book … More >>

The Effect of Education on Job Productivity: A Comparison of Online Education versus Classroom Education

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In Online Education: Global Questions, Local Answers, 24 college educators focus on the most important questions to be addressed by all scholar-teachers and administrators committed to developing high-quality online education programs. We describe these questions as “global” because they transcend the particular situations of individual institutions. They are questions that everyone involved in online education needs to address: What are the issues to consider when … More >>

Online Education: Global Questions, Local Answers

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In 1996 the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign began an Internet-based teaching program, allowing students across the United States-and the world-to earn a Master’s degree from a distance. The program, known as LEEP (Library Education Experimental Project), has been an outstanding success, and as an early innovation in Internet use, provides important lessons on how to flourish in an online environmen… More >>

Learning, Culture and Community in Online Education: Research And Practice