Research and Insights: Succeeding in Online Education
As the global pandemic forced most higher education institutions around the world to move classes to all-online formats, colleges and universities began examining whether or not online education is effective for the long term.
Critics of online education say that it can be dry, not particularly engaging, and over-reliant on low stakes assessments, leaving students to wonder if they learned much at all. Critics also fear that there will be little to no student-faculty interaction in an online format. Because of this, University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications Advertising Professor Michael Weigold, the former director of the College’s distance learning program, described steps that the University of Florida has taken to provide excellent education to a fully online student body.
Posted: June 2, 2020
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