Category Archives: Envisioning Online

Online Shorts: Summer 2012

Posted on August 16, 2012 by Bruce Rosenbloom

Note: With this post, I am starting a new format; namely, short summaries and commentary on a series of recently published reports and articles.  The sheer volume of newsworthy academic and press reporting about online learning makes this new format … 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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Giving Academia the Business

Posted on July 22, 2012 by Bruce Rosenbloom

An interesting commentary from William W. Keep in the Chronicle is entitled “The Worrisome Ascendance of Business in Higher Education” (June 21, 2012).  The article starts out illustrating the conflict between administrators with business experience and faculty’s worldview. In this … Continue reading →

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Instructional Technology: A Sea Too Wide

Posted on May 24, 2012 by Bruce Rosenbloom

I often refer to instructional technology (IT) as a large, deep ocean. Large because of the many technologies out there to potentially aid teaching and learning, deep in terms of the numbers of products, vendors and features that need to … Continue reading →

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CUNY Survey of Online Learning—Part 3

Posted on May 6, 2012 by Bruce Rosenbloom

It’s been a few months since I conducted the CUNY-wide survey for Online Learning, culminating in a panel discussion at CUNY’s 10th Annual Technology Conference at John Jay College on December 1-2, 2011.  Findings from the survey were presented in a panel discussion entitled … Continue reading →

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A Vision for Academic Technology at CUNY

Posted on March 30, 2012 by Bruce Rosenbloom

Note:  As CUNY is in the process of creating a 3-year master plan for the university, what follows is a modest proposal concerning the technology component of that plan, specifically, a vision for academic technology at CUNY.  In my view, a … 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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Cal State Online: Implications for CUNY

Posted on March 10, 2012 by Bruce Rosenbloom

This past week saw a major announcement from California State University (CSU) concerning online learning (link to story).  That university is moving forward with plans to create a “centralized online learning hub” or gateway portal for online courses at their … Continue reading →

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CUNY Survey of Online Learning-Part 1

Posted on February 25, 2012 by Bruce Rosenbloom

Note: For the sake of brevity, the term “online” used in this post and the survey described, includes hybrid or blended teaching in addition to fully online courses. The distinction between “hybrid” and “online” concerns the extent to which a … Continue reading →

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Institutional Process Toward Online: Part 3

Posted on February 12, 2012 by Bruce Rosenbloom

In previous posts I discussed the early phases of online development from traditional through online courses (Part 1) to the creation of hybrid/online programs and degrees (Part 2). In this post, I will address the critical juncture in the institutional … Continue reading →

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