Allison Rossett

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Sue describes her online learning as excruciating

Allison Rossett

She did it for the usual reasons associated with online education: access on demand, novelty, and location, location, location. Sue’s online lessons offer up lessons for those involved with e-learning. Please describe what happened when you went online. Unmotivated to learn online. She paid up. ” This is good.

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How We Helped Faculty Move Courses Online

Allison Rossett

It was a sustainable effort that grew into an ecosystem that enabled the university, in difficult budget circumstances, to develop online courses cost effectively. From forty faculty applicants, a dozen are chosen by academic leadership with the charge to move one course online for the summer session. ITS is a place. But there’s more.

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How We Helped Faculty Move Their Courses Online

Allison Rossett

It was a sustainable effort that grew into an ecosystem that enabled the university, in difficult budget circumstances, to develop online courses cost effectively. From forty faculty applicants, a dozen are chosen by academic leadership with the charge to move one course online for the summer session. ITS is a place. But there’s more.

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Cal State Online Plays Small Ball

Allison Rossett

Tweet The California State University (CSU), the largest state university system in the United States, has at long last settled on an online learning strategy for its 23 campuses. Many faculty extend their doubts about CSU leadership to online education, an easy target for professorial skepticism. What about quality? Baby steps.

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My first MOOC

Allison Rossett

This is what she had to say: My first Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) experience – from late-January to early-March, 2013 – was both positive and negative. Participating in my first MOOC was akin to my early experiences exploring Second Life and other virtual worlds – something new and compelliong under the online-learning sun.

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Reflections on Two Decades and Three Degrees

Allison Rossett

Check out the class website, download the syllabus, access the online readings, post an introduction, and contribute to the blog. Fall 2011: University of Minnesota Online. Online courses are as different as the professors who teach them. I found an oasis and I drink up. Grad school is awesome! Jolie today. It’s a video bonanza!

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Compliance Training: Doing Something About the Least Popular Training on Earth

Allison Rossett

Hammock also lamented the “NEXT, NEXT” syndrome, which is online compliance training characterized by extended mindless pressing of the NEXT button. These are important and debatable distinctions, especially when compared with requirements for attendance at an event or time served online.