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Attitude Is Everything

by JAZELLE HUNT , March 20, 2009

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Her preference for the flexibility of online courses is the primary reason surveyed faculty like this method. In the benchmarking survey’s preliminary findings, 70 percent of respondents found meeting students’ needs for flexible access to be an “important” or “very important” motivation to teach online. Sixty percent of respondents also felt that online learning’s ability to reach particular students was an important motivation.

The findings also show that most instructors feel online courses take more effort to develop and teach. They also show concern about the lack of interaction with students and a need to put more effort into connecting with them. Despite this, enrollment in online education programs has gone from about 1.5 million students in 2002 to 3.5 million in 2006, according to the aforementioned “Key Factors” study.

NASULGC and Sloan- C hope the benchmarking study and similar endeavors will create a wealth of information to benefit all institutions. “People still have so many questions,” says Dr. Sally McCarthy, one of the research consultants on the project. “This survey is so huge — it’s unprecedented. It’s given us a lot of information, and we’re just beginning to crack the surface.”



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