Re-Inspiring Experienced Faculty
Often, as colleges and universities decide to implement cutting-edge technologies into their educational repertoire, teachers and faculty feel overwhelmed by the increasing demands of the ever-changing online academic environment. As a result, colleges that strive for success take firm steps to keep experienced faculty members energized so they can feel inspired by the new educational opportunities at hand.
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Overcoming Student Apathy
For decades, America has been placed high in worldwide rankings of educational spending. As a result, performance charts should continually reflect American students at the top. Unfortunately, that is not always the case. While exasperated experts believe several factors affect student performance, one of the most pervasive and recurrent reasons for lower test scores on-campus and online is student apathy.
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Setting Standards and Policies
Setting and communicating standards and policies related to offering, managing and teaching online courses represents one of the most important, yet often overlooked, aspects of implementing an online program.
Successful online programs have specific and rigorous policies that program coordinators lay out and instructors adopt, and both clearly communicate these policies to students and other stakeholders on a consistent basis.
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Top Tools for Success in the Online Classroom
The rise in popularity of online education has led to a complete educational overhaul for many traditional colleges and universities, thus blurring the line between virtual and physical classrooms. While this change has been a boon for both students and enrollment officials, schools must ensure that their instructors remain on top of the new advancements and not become lost in the technological shuffle.
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How to Reduce or Prevent Cheating Online
As the advantage of online learning breaks location and time barriers, educational institutions still face the challenge of student authentication. It is considered highly unethical for someone else besides the enrolled online student to answer exam questions or write a final paper, especially since it hinders the student from attaining a quality education.
It has been a perennial challenge to prevent students from using the textbook, consulting with friends, or otherwise cheating on a quiz or exam, so professors, administrators and accreditors alike are always trying to find new and better solutions to tackle this problem. According to the American Council on Education of Higher Education Act Reauthorization, under the Higher Education Act of 2008, “Accreditors must require institutions that offer distance education to establish that a student registered for a distance education course is the same student who completes and receives credit for it.”
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