Online Colleges Drawing Foreign Students
Great potential avenue for revenue generation in Korea. Take a country with more MA's and PhDs than academic work and deploy them in international distance education. The amount of training to transition to online teaching would be significant, but this is an area of potential growth.
Start with areas unique or, at least central to, Korea such as Korean language and culture, (East) Asian studies, and so forth and then add other programs in technology, sciences, and even humanities. I know many of you with experience in the Korean Academy will scoff, but this does have huge potential if done right.
Saturday, March 21, 2009
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
These Lectures Are Gone in 60 Seconds - Chronicle.com
These Lectures Are Gone in 60 Seconds - Chronicle.com
I originally thought that this concept of "micro-lectures" was just a rebranding of mini-lectures. In other words, short, pointed, lectures that focus a single topic quickly. This isn't the case. It is about boiling down a long class lecture into a couple minutes.
I'd say that's a great idea. If you can do something as well in less time, then do it. The problem is, I doubt this is the case. What people are going to do is boil down the lecture into keywords and give some links for students to follow. I don't necessarily think that this is bad, if done well, but seeing how elearning has developed over the years I don't see this being done well by most teachers.
I will say, though, that this is aimed on online/blended classes. For these, I think it is a great idea. I know that I can't watch an online lecture for 20 minutes without checking my email, getting a snack, and maybe even watching a little TV. Short, focused lectures paired with relevant resources and guided discussion seems like a darn good class format to me.
I'll agree, though, that there are limitations, but I think that they are fewer than suggested in the article. The only exception for me is in situations when a good narrative is required and/or when I can get the information quicker from a lecture than from the resources.
That being said, I think that I am going to experiment with my own version next fall in my writing classes. Having a library of lectures could really come in handy when trying to individualize instruction for mixed-ability classes as I always have.
I originally thought that this concept of "micro-lectures" was just a rebranding of mini-lectures. In other words, short, pointed, lectures that focus a single topic quickly. This isn't the case. It is about boiling down a long class lecture into a couple minutes.
I'd say that's a great idea. If you can do something as well in less time, then do it. The problem is, I doubt this is the case. What people are going to do is boil down the lecture into keywords and give some links for students to follow. I don't necessarily think that this is bad, if done well, but seeing how elearning has developed over the years I don't see this being done well by most teachers.
I will say, though, that this is aimed on online/blended classes. For these, I think it is a great idea. I know that I can't watch an online lecture for 20 minutes without checking my email, getting a snack, and maybe even watching a little TV. Short, focused lectures paired with relevant resources and guided discussion seems like a darn good class format to me.
I'll agree, though, that there are limitations, but I think that they are fewer than suggested in the article. The only exception for me is in situations when a good narrative is required and/or when I can get the information quicker from a lecture than from the resources.
That being said, I think that I am going to experiment with my own version next fall in my writing classes. Having a library of lectures could really come in handy when trying to individualize instruction for mixed-ability classes as I always have.
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