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Vaccinate Against Cheating With Authentic Assessment
University faculty members are discovering that students are using the internet to cheat on exams. Online sites sell test questions, answer keys, term papers and other assessments to students. There is a cure for this.
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Time for Reinvention, Not Just Replication or Revision
With enrollments falling, college budgets under strain and employers dissatisfied with the relevance of graduates' learning, now is a time for more than replication or revision -- it is time for reinvention.
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Zoom Fatigue: What We Have Learned
Zoom (and other videoconferencing) fatigue was recognized early in the remote learning efforts of 2020. It is real. We have learned much about the cause and some about how to avoid the symptoms that impair communication and learning.
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Online Learning to the Rescue: Again
Online learning has helped rescue higher education from the pandemic and from natural disasters, wars and untold disasters. Will it now inject higher ed into the fourth industrial revolution?
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Mental Health Epidemic: Dark Shadow of the COVID Pandemic
As we prepare to launch another semester mostly online, we are facing what may be the most severe mental health crisis in the history of American education. The next three months promise to bring the most dangerous and stressful period in American medicine.
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Teaching Online in the COVID Crisis: What We Have Learned
As we prepare to launch another semester mostly online, we are better informed than we were in the spring and fall semesters. From experiences with rapidly applied pedagogies to better understanding of how our students’ radically altered lives impact their learning, we must adapt.
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The Speedy Future of Delivering Online Learning: 5G-10G Confusion and Potential
As we continue to advance online services to distant students, bandwidth becomes ever more important. Virtual laboratories are beginning to take advantage of virtual reality, augmented reality and an assortment of associated technologies that rely on highly sophisticated networking.
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Will 2022 Bring a Return to 'Normal' After Mostly Online 2021 Semesters?
Many colleges are closing their campuses after Thanksgiving and moving online. Spring terms will be delayed, break canceled, and online strategies remain at the forefront of delivery modes for the rest of 2021. What lies ahead?