Category Archives: Online Learning Policies, Procedures, Systems

Focus on Online: Opportunities to Publish

Posted on November 24, 2012 by Bruce Rosenbloom

Understandably, professors on the tenure track are quite concerned about finding journals to publish in.  The field of online learning presents many opportunities for those interested in adding to their CV’s. Given that online teaching and learning has been a … Continue reading →

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Faculty “Qualms” with Online, Not Technology

Posted on November 23, 2012 by Bruce Rosenbloom

I was going to title this post “Faculty Resistance to Online,” but I feel that is too strong. While it is certainly true that many faculty have resisted, downplayed, disparaged, and attacked online learning in principle and in practice, there … Continue reading →

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Adjuncts and Online: Intersecting Trends

Posted on November 15, 2012 by Bruce Rosenbloom

Reading this week’s Chronicle article entitled, “Adjuncts Build Strength in Numbers: A New Majority Generates a Shift in Academic Culture,” I had an epiphany. The rise of online learning, in all likelihood the major trend in higher education in the … Continue reading →

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Online Teaching: Instructor Concerns

Posted on November 4, 2012 by Bruce Rosenbloom

A three-year review of concerns about online teaching was conducted at Oklahoma State University.  The resulting article, “Exploring Online Teaching: A Three-Year Composite Journal of Concerns and Strategies from Online Instructors,” speaks eloquently to what faculty worry about when teaching online courses and how they address … Continue reading →

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CUNY Closed vs. Academic Continuity: An Institutional Choice

Posted on October 30, 2012 by Bruce Rosenbloom

The current weather-related closing of all CUNY campuses for several days this week offers a case study in emergency preparedness or lack thereof. In bold red letters, many campus websites proclaim: All (CUNY College of choice) Classes and Activities Cancelled … Continue reading →

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Is There a Cal State in CUNY’s Future?

Posted on September 18, 2012 by Bruce Rosenbloom

In the August 22nd issue of Inside Higher Ed, was an article highly relevant to CUNY’s online efforts entitled, “Cal State Rolls out the Next Stage of its Online Efforts.”  The article is noteworthy since Cal State, for the first … Continue reading →

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Where the Jobs Are—Online

Posted on August 15, 2012 by Bruce Rosenbloom

One bright spot in a dismal job market is work related to online learning.  For many years I have taught a course for the CUNY Online BA Program, entitled “Principles, Practices and Policies of Online Learning.” I have reminded my … Continue reading →

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Interactive Online Learning: Positive Results

Posted on July 29, 2012 by Bruce Rosenbloom

A significant study was published in May 2012 by Ithaca S + R which bills itself as a “strategic consulting and research service . . . dedicated to helping the academic community use digital technologies . . .”  The study, … Continue reading →

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An Online Policy Conundrum: Structure versus Freedom

Posted on March 15, 2012 by Bruce Rosenbloom

The current issue of the Online Journal of Distance Education Administration has a timely and important paper concerning institutional policies about online course structure. “An Analysis of Organizational Approaches to Online Course Structures” explores the sometimes conflicting territory of faculty … Continue reading →

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Online and Emergency Planning

Posted on February 28, 2012 by Bruce Rosenbloom

I came across a wonderful study published in the Journal of Distance Learning Administration (Volume IV, Number 1, Spring 2011) entitled, “The Role of Online Learning in the Emergency Plans of Flagship Institutions.” Authors Katrina Mayer and Jeffrey Wilson had … Continue reading →

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