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Victorian universities have indicated online learning will be part of their future strategy going and, while it has advantages for students wanting to live in the country, support services say face-to-face experiences are vital. 
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College professor Paola De Simone collapses during virtual class after battling coronavirus symptomsCurrent and former students, as well as one of De Simone’s college classmates, said they were not surprised to hear De Simone kept teaching after falling ill.
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The COVID-19 pandemic has thrown much of higher education into disarray, but amid this storm are opportunities to redesign teaching and learning in dy
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The first six months of semester one, 2020 has certainly been a memorable one for everyone. Almost overnight, COVID-19 transformed how we live, how we work, and how we learn. Consequently, we have all had to think differently about our operations and find new, more agile ways of working and delivering training.
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No one wants to pay $30,000 per semester for the current experience.
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Like the entertainment industry, colleges will need to embrace digital services in order to survive.
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eading the national press at the moment you might think that universities had just performed the last rites over centuries of in-person and on-campus teaching.
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Universities have been teaching remotely this term but can the online model work long-term?
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Nothing about what we are doing currently is as good as what we were doing a few weeks ago.
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The University of Florida has sent a memo to its professors telling them to move their classes online, effective immediately.
Peter Mellow's insight:
Watch out 'dyed in the wool' face to face lecturers...your LMS and TEL is coming to get you!
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Universities have put in place many measures to help international students. But online classes are not a simple solution, and the government could help with the extra money students have to spend.
Peter Mellow's insight:
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Online education in itself is a contested space. Previous research has shown online learning and flipped classrooms (where students do some online self-learning prior to later face-to-face classes) have mixed results both generally and in specific disciplines such as medicine. This is because designing online learning experiences is a complex exercise that requires resources, thought and time. Given the short period academics have to build additional resources, it is a challenge for even the best academics to create a productive and effective online learning environment.
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Degrees still matter, but online programs are playing a complementary role.
Peter Mellow's insight:
This photo is so similar to the Open Universities Australia TV adverts.
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Colleges generally still price their online programs similarly to their on-ground counterparts. A panel of experts explores whether that is starting to change.
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A learner’s digital education experience can be very different from the seamless user-friendly world of the social internet. Replicating the old classes online isn't good enough. A rethink is needed.
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While most community colleges are planning for virtual or remote learning this fall, on-campus health and safety needs persist, demanding attention an
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The university in the nation's capital follows others that have made similar moves because of the coronavirus pandemic.
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A sustainable return to remote learning must ensure schools and the government address social, emotional and equity issues of students, and increasing workloads for teachers.
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For many students, the Covid-19-driven online learning experiment has so far fallen flat, with seven out of ten rating their online courses as worse than the in-person classes in which they were initially enrolled. But, when it comes to learning, not everything online is created equal.
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In a Q&A session, Vice Provost for Advances in Learning Bharat Anand discusses how Harvard is planning for a fall semester largely online.
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The coronavirus forced a shift to virtual classes, but their continuation could be beneficial even after the pandemic ends.
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Our work as educators is not just to question ubiquitous practices, compulsory data collection, and algorithmic decision-making, but also to model what it looks like to think critically about the whens, whys, and hows of technology. The majority of ed-tech is driven by the bureaucratic traditions of education more than the pedagogical ones.
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There's no playground or lunch bell at this Beijing school, but some 8,000 kilometres from the city, Angela and Jaima are preparing for another day of class.
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China is battling a deadly coronavirus outbreak that has killed more than 2,700 in the country alone. In a bid to stop the spread of the disease, schools across the country are closed, leaving about 180 million school-aged children in China stuck at home.
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Here is my proposed 21st Century Education Bill of Rights for all K-12 students in our country:
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Will colleges and universities follow the same path as GM and VW?
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