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Jennie Dougherty, who taught English at a large urban public high school in Brockton, Massachusetts for three years, recently left to become the technology instructor at a school in East Palo Alto, a low-income Bay Area town. When she first encountered ClassDojo she thought it was just a virtual sticker star chart, a paper version of which she already used. ClassDojo met her basic need -- then she discovered it could \u003c!--more-->do more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Educators have a specific objective in mind when we select a tool and then we customize,” Dougherty said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dougherty also used the tool to get her students to model more mature, college-level behavior. And in higher-level classes she allowed students to award points to one another and found if she prepared them ahead of time, students took this task seriously. And the act of withholding points from one another opened up great discussions for students. For example, she remembers one student refusing to award a peer a point in a debate because the speaker had gotten too emotional. That started a larger discussion about when it’s appropriate to insert oneself into a debate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Dougherty was willing to take a risk, and had the support of the administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The classroom is a very high stakes environment,\" Doughtery said. \"You are getting evaluated. It’s a place where we expect teachers to always be on their A-game.” And that means they may not have time or freedom to try something new. They may even be at risk if they do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>VARYING EXPERIENCES\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Dougherty found ClassDojo useful, some of her colleagues didn't have the same positive reaction. “What I saw teachers struggle with is how to get the value out of a tool without changing the structure of what they were doing,” said Dougherty. ClassDojo fit her style because she was spending most of her class time on group activities, and less time up front lecturing. It was easy to move around the room awarding points as she checked in on each group’s progress. Teachers who focused on lecturing found it hard to juggle the points system with their usual style of delivering the lesson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Joan Young, another teacher at a San Francisco Bay Area school, found the service just didn't fit her class well. She tried the tool, but found that the point system brought out more challenges than benefits. She asked her class what they preferred and they voted for a non-tech strategy she had been using where they could earn “fascination time” at the end of the week by transitioning quickly and quietly between activities. She also felt the tool was too focused on the teacher's actions. She’d rather see students evaluate their own behavior, learn from mistakes and take ownership of their own learning progress. 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That's what led to the launch this year of \u003ca href=\"http://braincandy.wix.com/braincandy#!about/aboutPage\">Braincandy\u003c/a>, a tool to help students understand the underlying concepts behind their misperceptions.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\n\u003cp>\"Teachers are usually the last people to be consulted on many of these education technology companies.”\u003c/p>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>West and his co-founders wrote trick-questions on physics concepts that many kids get wrong. The answer choices are all the common misperceptions. The goal is for students to be completely sure that they're choosing the right answer, the obvious answer, only to find out that most got it wrong. “These aren’t test questions. 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Teachers are usually the last people to be consulted on many of these education technology companies,” Bellow said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The site has already drawn 25,000 users and he actually isn’t accepting more until he rolls out the next version of the site. Beyond just helping teachers, Bellow is most excited about features directed at students and meant to encourage them to create. He wants eduClipper “to have students inspire other students to make real things,” the way that the \u003ca href=\"http://makerfaire.com/\">Maker Faire events \u003c/a>have done. 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The time is ripe for teachers to use their natural inclination to innovate to help the kids that they are failing, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If I do more of the same and just do it better -- I’ve seen that trajectory, and I feel like I’ve gone as far as I can with that and I need to try something else,” West said. “Based on my experience and the luck of the draw, technology is my channel.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adam Bellow, another ed-tech entrepreneur, recently developed a Pinterest-like tool for teachers called \u003ca href=\"http://educlipper.net/\">eduClipper\u003c/a>. Bellow is based in New York and has spent much of his career helping teachers use technology in the classroom more effectively.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The biggest issue that we have as teachers is finding and sharing good stuff,” Bellow said. “You have teachers that are open to doing these things, that want to, but who don’t necessarily know where to go or don’t feel they have a time to find them.” He wants eduClipper to fill that void and for students and teachers to interact on the site, sharing the buckets of useful links, videos and infographics with one another. Students could even use the site as way to develop a digital portfolio, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bellow built the tool to serve a need he found distinctly lacking. “The reason I’m building this tool is that I’ve seen so many companies build websites that they think are cool, or that they think address a need, without consulting teachers. Teachers are usually the last people to be consulted on many of these education technology companies,” Bellow said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The site has already drawn 25,000 users and he actually isn’t accepting more until he rolls out the next version of the site. Beyond just helping teachers, Bellow is most excited about features directed at students and meant to encourage them to create. He wants eduClipper “to have students inspire other students to make real things,” the way that the \u003ca href=\"http://makerfaire.com/\">Maker Faire events \u003c/a>have done. 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"content": "\u003cp class=\"dropcap-serif\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2012/10/what-to-do-if-your-school-bans-a-useful-website/attachment/123208401/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-24159\">\u003cimg class=\"alignright size-large wp-image-24159\" title=\"123208401\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2012/10/123208401-620x351.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"351\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"dropcap-serif\">Today is \u003ca href=\"http://www.ala.org/aasl/advocacy/bwad\">Banned Website Awareness Day\u003c/a>, and all across the country, educators are doing their part to raise awareness of how overly restrictive blocking of educational websites affects student learning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The dialogue around filtering must also include\u003ca> bring-your-own-device\u003c/a> policies, appropriate \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2012/01/students-want-social-media-in-schools/\">use of social media in schools, \u003c/a>and \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2012/03/students-demand-the-right-to-use-technology-in-schools/\">overall responsible use of technology\u003c/a> in school. Each of these issues plays an important part in the equation that influences school policy around filtering websites. For example, do students and teachers use social media sites like Edmodo or even Facebook for class purposes? Are educational videos on YouTube part of teachers' curriculum? In large school districts, does it make sense to have individual school policies? Are students allowed to use their cell phones?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Part of the investigation into what filtering policies to put in place revolves around understanding current rules and regulations -- and that's the problem, according to \u003ca href=\"http://bibliotech.me/\">Michelle Luhtala, \u003c/a>a librarian at New Cannan High School and one of the primary organizers of Banned Websites Awareness Day.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\n\u003cp>\"People believe the rules are far more restrictive than they really are.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\"People believe the rules are far more restrictive than they really are,\" she said. \"Most people are working off of policies that predate 2003, and so much has happened since then, and continues to happen.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a recent survey of nearly 700 teachers, principals, and school librarians, conducted by MMS Education and co-sponsored by edWeb.net and MCH Strategic Data, 55% of respondents said they had somewhat restrictive policies of access to Web 2.0 tools (social media sites) for teachers, and 23% said they had very restrictive policies. And when it came to students, 44% said they had somewhat restrictive policies of access, and 47% said they had very restrictive policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of the blocked sites are either social media sites, or have some element of public sharing of information, and that's where school administrators need to be more flexible, Luhtala said. \"Administration more than teachers need to open their minds to the value and potential of social networking for \u003c!--more-->educational use,\" wrote a survey respondent. \"CIPA needs to be spelled out more specifically or made clearer to IT in education so that filters are not blocking sites unnecessarily.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, what should educators do when they try to access a site in school that's blocked by the school's filter? Luhtala offers the following advice.\u003c/p>\n\u003col>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>PRESENT FACTS. \u003c/strong>Direct people to the Department of Education's suggestions \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2011/04/straight-from-the-doe-facts-about-blocking-sites-in-schools/\">in this article\u003c/a> (posted below). \"This is a really valuable resource for tech directors who aren’t well informed about the details of legal aspects,\" Luhtala said. \"Sometimes IT directors tell other IT directors who say, 'Just do what the lawyers say,' and it becomes a giant case of the game Telephone. The DOE is the ultimate authority, so this article forces them to look at their agenda and policies.\"\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>CONSIDER SMART POLICIES. \u003c/strong>Study CoSN's \u003ca href=\"http://www.cosn.org/Initiatives/ParticipatoryLearning/Web20MobileAUPGuide/tabid/8139/Default.aspx\">Guide for Acceptable Use Policies \u003c/a>for filtering and other issues, and their recent report \u003ca href=\"http://www.cosn.org/Initiatives/ParticipatoryLearning/MakingProgress/tabid/12543/Default.aspx\">Making Progress: Rethinking State and School District Policies Concerning Mobile Technologies and Social Media\u003c/a>, which clearly states, \"Before steps are taken to impose limits on the use of social media and mobile technologies in schools, policymakers and educators need to consider the consequences for learning that such restrictions would produce... Such action should carefully consider the advantages of social media for learning and that these guidelines for responsible use bring media into mentored environments where they can be safely explored and shared.\"\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>CREATE A DIALOGUE. \u003c/strong>Start a conversation with people who manage the filtering system. \"A lot of policies have been in place for 10 years or more,\" Luhtala said. \"Sometimes they assume products are inherently bad, but if they understand that they can be tools for learning, they can see constructive purposes.\"\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>GET AN EARLY ADOPTER ON BOARD AND TAKE BABY STEPS. \u003c/strong>Collaborate with an innovator, and see if you can work on a project that includes a site you want unblocked. Get parent and school authorization to try out the pilot project and document the process along the way in order to share best practices. Try it out for five weeks and see how it goes.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>USE AND SHARE RESOURCES. \u003c/strong>Read the \u003ca href=\"http://aasl.ala.org/essentiallinks/index.php?title=Main_Page\">American Association of School Librarian's Essential Resources site \u003c/a>and add your own resources to help others spread the message and educate other educators.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>WADE INTO SOCIAL MEDIA. \u003c/strong>For those who have yet to start using social media with students, Luhtala suggests \"take steps to try to understand what all the fuss is about.\" But that will take time and training, as one survey respondent pointed out. \"I believe it offers us potential opportunities to further engage our students. However, in order to maximize this potential we must provide teachers and students with additional trainings,\" the anonymous respondent wrote in the survey.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ol>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When you're ready to take action, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2011/09/dispelling-myths-about-blocked-websites-in-schools/\">here are the list of myths dispelled \u003c/a>directly by the Department of Education's Technology Director Karen Cator:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Accessing YouTube is not violating CIPA rules.\u003c/strong> “Absolutely it’s not circumventing the rules,” Cator says. “The rule is to block inappropriate sites. All sorts of YouTube videos are helpful in explaining complex concepts or telling a story, or for hearing an expert or an authentic voice — they present learning opportunities that are really helpful.”\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Websites don’t have to be blocked for teachers\u003c/strong>. “Some of the comments I saw online had to do with teachers wondering why they can’t access these sites,” she says. “They absolutely can. There’s nothing that says that sites have to be blocked for adults.”\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Broad filters are not helpful\u003c/strong>. “What we have had is what I consider brute force technologies that shut down wide swaths of the Internet, like all of YouTube, for example. Or they may shut down anything that has anything to do with social media, or anything that is a game,” she said. “These broad filters aren’t actually very helpful, because we need much more nuanced filtering.”\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Schools will not lose \u003ca href=\"http://www.fcc.gov/learnnet/\">E-rate\u003c/a> funding by unblocking appropriate sites. \u003c/strong>Cator said she’s never heard of a school losing E-rate funding due to allowing appropriate sites blocked by filters. 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"content": "\u003ch5>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2012/09/where-is-technology-leading-higher-education/attachment/78365380/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-23984\">\u003cimg class=\"alignright size-large wp-image-23984\" title=\"78365380\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2012/09/78365380-620x413.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"413\">\u003c/a>\u003c/h5>\n\u003ch5>By \u003ca href=\"http://www.pbs.org/mediashift/doug-ward/\">Doug Ward\u003c/a>\u003c/h5>\n\u003cp class=\"dropcap-serif\">The rush to create large, free online classes has generated anxiety at universities around the country. With finances already tight and with a surge of movement toward online learning, universities are being forced to move quickly to change centuries-old models of learning. Terms like \u003ca href=\"http://thejournal.com/articles/2012/06/07/the-end-of-liberal-arts-education.aspx?sc_lang=en\">\u003cem>historic\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/17/education/consortium-of-colleges-takes-online-education-to-new-level.html?pagewanted=all\">\u003cem>seismic\u003c/em>\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304019404577416631206583286.html?mod=WSJ%20Opinion%20LEADTop\">\u003cem>revolutionary\u003c/em>\u003c/a> now pop up in descriptions of the challenges that higher education faces in the coming years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many institutions have been preparing for these changes for years, building infrastructure and expertise, experimenting and recruiting, and integrating online learning into long-term strategies. Many others, especially traditional research universities, have been caught flat-footed as education has transformed around them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This point of dramatic -- and traumatic -- change didn't swoop in unannounced. Rather, it crept in like a series of streams meeting in a roiling confluence. Only by stepping back and looking in panoramic fashion can we truly understand how we've arrived at a point of transformation and how we might deal with it.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch5>TECHNOLOGY LEADS THE WAY\u003c/h5>\n\u003cp>Internet connections, computers and cellphones have become faster and cheaper, providing easier access to online material and creating the potential to speak with, work with, and learn from nearly anyone in the world. Information, once something people had to seek out, now flows relentlessly to them. In education, lecture capture and lesson creation have become easier and cheaper, and online storage has made retrieval cheap and easy. Free tools like \u003ca href=\"http://moodle.com/\">Moodle\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.techsmith.com/jing.html\">Jing\u003c/a>, YouTube, and Twitter have provided new means of information sharing and collaboration. Smartphones and the iPad have provided portable means of accessing and creating information, making learning more portable than ever.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In their book \u003ca href=\"http://www.amazon.com/Liberating-Learning-Technology-Politics-Education/dp/047044214X\">\u003cem>Liberating Learning\u003c/em>,\u003c/a> Terry Moe and John Chubb say that this technological transformation is \"reshaping the fundamentals of how human beings from every corner of the globe communicate, interact, conduct their business, and simply live their lives from day to day.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's also changing the way they learn.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch5>COLLEGE COSTS HAVE SKYROCKETED\u003c/h5>\n\u003cp>The expense of higher education \u003ca href=\"http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/forum/story/2012-05-15/online-classes-college-education-tuition/54979794/1\">has risen more than 550 percent\u003c/a> since 1985, pricing many students out of the market even as a college degree becomes more important than ever for reaching the middle class. At the same time, the cost of technology has dropped, allowing more people easier access to the Internet and to resources for learning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Colleges and universities have come under increased scrutiny because of rising costs, mediocre rates of degree completion, and lack of willingness to change from a centuries-old model of \u003c!--more-->education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the education magazine \u003ca href=\"http://www.changemag.org/\">Change\u003c/a>, John Daniel, Asha Kanwar, and Stamenka Uvalic-Trumbic have criticized what they call higher education's \"iron triangle\": \"the assumption that quality, exclusivity, and expense necessarily go together.\" Critics like Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa, authors of \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://www.amazon.com/Academically-Adrift-Limited-Learning-Campuses/dp/0226028569\">Academically Adrift\u003c/a>,\u003c/em> point to evidence that higher education has become more associated with socializing than with learning. State legislators have also demanded proof that public colleges and universities are using money wisely, even tying additional financing to economic development.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch5>CONVENIENCE ATTRACTS STUDENTS ONLINE\u003c/h5>\n\u003cp>Online and \u003ca href=\"http://edudemic.com/2012/05/6-pros-and-cons-of-a-hybrid-education/\">hybrid\u003c/a> education offers students freedom to work through course material when and where they want, and at their own pace, repeating material if needed, and reducing the amount of time they sit passively in large lectures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a \u003ca href=\"http://www.educause.edu/library/resources/ecar-national-study-undergraduate-students-and-information-technology-2011-report\">survey last year\u003c/a> by the \u003ca href=\"http://www.educause.edu/ecar\">Educause Center for Applied Research\u003c/a>, nearly 60 percent of undergraduates said they learned more in classes that had online components, and 9 percent said they learned best when classes were totally online.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch5>TEACHERS CONNECT WITH DIGITAL GENERATION\u003c/h5>\n\u003cp>Educators have been experimenting with technology, sharing ideas and collaborating as they try to find ways to reach a generation of students that has grown up with computers, cell phones, XBox, Nintendo and other electronics. K-12 schools, especially, have shown increased interest in using games, phones, iPads and other unconventional means to engage students in the classroom. Social media have accelerated the spread of ideas, spurring even more innovation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Online and hybrid education offers new means of engaging students through interactive lessons, videos, animations, games, discussion boards and chats. These are all familiar and comfortable technologies for a generation of students that has grown up with ubiquitous technology.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch5>\u003c/h5>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\n\u003ch5>RELATED READING:\u003c/h5>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2012/06/can-free-high-quality-education-get-you-a-job/\">Can Free, High-Quality Education Get You a Job?\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://wp.me/p2io8W-5yJ\">Guide to MOOCs: Massive Open Online Courses\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2012/02/whats-on-the-horizon-in-higher-education/\">What's on the Horizon in Higher Education\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>In the book \u003ca href=\"http://www.understandingthedigitalgeneration.com/\">\u003cem>Understanding the Digital Generation\u003c/em>,\u003c/a> Ian Jukes, Ted McCain, and Lee Crockett argue that members of this digital generation \"think and communicate in fundamentally different ways than any previous generation,\" even though most adults still view the world and the classroom through a 20th-century lens. Technology-aided learning helps break through these barriers and meets students on familiar ground. It isn't as panacea, though, as \u003ca href=\"http://www.jisc.ac.uk/publications/reports/2012/researchers-of-tomorrow#menu\">many students lack the skills\u003c/a> to create material in the online world, beyond texting and Facebook. Still, it meets students where they are.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch5>DIGITAL EDUCATION OFFERS BROAD REACH\u003c/h5>\n\u003cp>Online education allows universities to reach students who can't or don't want to move to a physical campus, eliminating physical boundaries for recruitment and making nearly anyone anywhere a potential student.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Distance education is nothing new. It has existed for more than a century in the form of \u003ca href=\"http://researchreportsedu.wordpress.com/2012/06/13/the-history-of-distance-education/\">correspondence courses\u003c/a> taken by mail. Radio and television allowed educational material, often lectures, to be broadcast, and educational shows such as \"\u003ca href=\"http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1868862,00.html\">Sesame Street\u003c/a>\" combined education and entertainment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CDs and CD-ROMS allowed multimedia lessons to be shared easily, and as the commercial Internet took hold in the 1990s, schools began experimenting with new ways to reach out to students in remote locations. This has accelerated with faster and cheaper technology.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Non-traditional students, those with families and jobs, and those who started but never finished degrees have sought out online education. Many are seeking new job skills to help them through tough economic times, and others are seeking advanced degrees after being laid off or in hopes of finding better jobs. The common bond among all is the inability to return full time to college campuses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>States such as \u003ca href=\"http://www.oregonlive.com/politics/index.ssf/2012/07/new_oregon_state_laws_take_eff.html\">Oregon\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.jsonline.com/news/education/walker-unveils-new-online-degree-program-985r0ro-159567555.html\">Wisconsin\u003c/a> are exploring new ways to help students to finish degrees, in some cases allowing them to turn job skills into college credit or to learn from the many free online courses and then test out of college courses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Related, \u003ca href=\"http://www.oecdobserver.org/news/fullstory.php/aid/3681/An_emerging_middle_class.html\">living standards for millions of people in countries such as India and China have improved\u003c/a>, allowing them to purchase new technology and seek out education as a means to a better life.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch5>FOR-PROFIT COLLEGES COMPETE FOR STUDENTS\u003c/h5>\n\u003cp>The University of Phoenix and other for-profit colleges have attracted millions of students and millions of dollars in tuition with online courses. This has caught the attention of traditional colleges and universities, which see many potential students slipping away. Some \u003ca href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lisa-nielsen/the-college-myth-why-coll_b_827633.html\">critics of traditional education\u003c/a> have even indicated that a degree matters less than tangible skills, and have suggested using certificates, badges and other means as a way to authenticate those skills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Research has cast doubt on the traditional college education. In \"What's the Use of Lectures?\" for instance, Donald Bligh says that a lecture \"cannot be used effectively on its own to promote thought or to change and develop attitudes.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hybrid courses, especially, offer the promise of improved learning, though results have been mixed. In a \u003ca href=\"http://www.sr.ithaka.org/research-publications/interactive-learning-online-public-universities-evidence-randomized-trials\">recent analysis\u003c/a> by the not-for-profit organization \u003ca href=\"http://www.ithaka.org/\">Ithaka S+R\u003c/a>, William Bowen and his colleagues warn against the inflated expectations of online and hybrid courses, saying that \"there is no compelling evidence that online learning systems available today ... can in fact deliver improved educational outcomes across the board.\" They see great potential in hybrid and online education, though, and urge educators to explore these options vigorously.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch5>BIG ONLINE COURSES GAIN NOTORIETY\u003c/h5>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2012/09/colleges2.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-23871\" title=\"colleges2\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2012/09/colleges2-300x166.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"166\">\u003c/a>New organizations such as \u003ca href=\"https://www.coursera.org/\">Coursera\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.edx.org/\">edX\u003c/a> have made headlines by attracting large numbers of students, large investments of capital, and commitments from big-name universities. That has increased the buzz about online and hybrid education, especially as new deals have been struck and new money has flowed to the organizations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The success of large online courses, or \u003ca href=\"http://chronicle.com/article/What-You-Need-to-Know-About/133475/\">MOOCs\u003c/a> (for massive open online courses), at attracting students and capital, and the success of for-profit colleges have sent many colleges and universities scrambling to avoid the perception that they lack vision or the ability to change in an era of digital learning. No university wants to look like an also-ran.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those fears have provided opportunities to outside companies that provide consulting, technology, outsourcing and other services for online courses. These companies typically provide capital upfront to help develop online courses and student services systems, and then take a portion of tuition (often about 50 percent) from new online students.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch5>COLLEGE BUDGETS KEEP SHRINKING\u003c/h5>\n\u003cp>Administrators are looking to online education and technology in general as a means to save money. Budgets have been squeezed, especially at public institutions, even as fixed costs remain high.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bowen and his colleagues at Ithaka S+R offer \u003ca href=\"http://www.sr.ithaka.org/research-publications/interactive-learning-online-public-universities-evidence-randomized-trials\">one of the more persuasive arguments\u003c/a> about potential cost savings through more efficient use of technology, personnel, and facilities. Upfront costs are higher as courses are developed, they say, but once a hybrid course is created by a faculty member, additional sections can be added using less-expensive adjuncts and teaching assistants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their conclusions assume that a hybrid course meets for fewer hours than a traditional lecture (one hour instead of three or four). Savings grow as enrollment grows, with the same class material used for more students. They see additional potential savings in reduced demand for large lecture spaces, allowing institutions to increase overall student population without building additional classrooms. The same reasoning applies to fully online courses, which allow universities to increase the number of students without increasing the number of physical classrooms.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch5>WHERE IS THIS HEADED?\u003c/h5>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.convergemag.com/reports/q3yb-2011/Center-for-Digital-Educations-Converge-Yearbook-Technology-Innovation-in-Education.html\">move toward technology-aided learning\u003c/a> will only accelerate in coming years. Many K-12 schools have been \u003ca href=\"http://thenextweb.com/apple/2012/07/24/ipad-2-sales-strong-in-k-12-market-sold-2x-as-many-ipads-to-schools-as-macs/\">investing heavily in tablets\u003c/a> and other technology in hopes of reducing costs on textbooks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Others have embraced a \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.technet.com/b/security/archive/2012/07/18/beginner-s-guide-to-byod-bring-your-own-device.aspx\">bring-your-own-device model\u003c/a>, which draws on students' growing ownership and use of cell phones, laptop computers and tablets. Many schools are also investing in tools such as lecture capture, high-speed wireless networks, cloud computing, and social networking, and combining technology-aided education with classroom work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite these many changes, online education is unlikely to push aside a traditional four-year on-campus degree in the near future. That \"college experience\" allows students to make connections with faculty members, to work closely with peers and teachers, to improve their critical thinking, and, perhaps most importantly, to mature as they live away from home for the first time. With technology changing the way younger students learn, though, and with more new options for learning popping up constantly, universities have no choice but to adapt and make it clear to students what they offer over the myriad online alternatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Doug Ward is an associate professor of journalism and the Budig Professor of Writing at the University of Kansas. He is the author of \"A New Brand of Business: Charles Coolidge Parlin, Curtis Publishing Company, and the Origins of Market Research\" and a former editor at The New York Times. You can find him online at \u003ca href=\"http://www.kuediting.com\">www.kuediting.com\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.journalismtech.com\">www.journalismtech.com\u003c/a>, and follow him on Twitter \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/#%21/kuediting\">@kuediting\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This \u003c/em>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2012/09/where-is-technology-leading-higher-education/pbs-mediashift-logo-final-19/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-23981\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-23981 alignleft\" title=\"pbs-mediashift-logo-final\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2012/09/pbs-mediashift-logo-final-140x140.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"69\" height=\"69\">\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003cem>post originally appeared on \u003ca href=\"http://www.pbs.org/mediashift/2012/06/as-e-book-demand-rises-libraries-struggle-with-publishers-budgets-to-deliver178.html\">MediaShift\u003c/a>, which covers the intersection of media and technology. 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At the same time, the cost of technology has dropped, allowing more people easier access to the Internet and to resources for learning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Colleges and universities have come under increased scrutiny because of rising costs, mediocre rates of degree completion, and lack of willingness to change from a centuries-old model of \u003c!--more-->education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the education magazine \u003ca href=\"http://www.changemag.org/\">Change\u003c/a>, John Daniel, Asha Kanwar, and Stamenka Uvalic-Trumbic have criticized what they call higher education's \"iron triangle\": \"the assumption that quality, exclusivity, and expense necessarily go together.\" Critics like Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa, authors of \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://www.amazon.com/Academically-Adrift-Limited-Learning-Campuses/dp/0226028569\">Academically Adrift\u003c/a>,\u003c/em> point to evidence that higher education has become more associated with socializing than with learning. State legislators have also demanded proof that public colleges and universities are using money wisely, even tying additional financing to economic development.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch5>CONVENIENCE ATTRACTS STUDENTS ONLINE\u003c/h5>\n\u003cp>Online and \u003ca href=\"http://edudemic.com/2012/05/6-pros-and-cons-of-a-hybrid-education/\">hybrid\u003c/a> education offers students freedom to work through course material when and where they want, and at their own pace, repeating material if needed, and reducing the amount of time they sit passively in large lectures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a \u003ca href=\"http://www.educause.edu/library/resources/ecar-national-study-undergraduate-students-and-information-technology-2011-report\">survey last year\u003c/a> by the \u003ca href=\"http://www.educause.edu/ecar\">Educause Center for Applied Research\u003c/a>, nearly 60 percent of undergraduates said they learned more in classes that had online components, and 9 percent said they learned best when classes were totally online.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch5>TEACHERS CONNECT WITH DIGITAL GENERATION\u003c/h5>\n\u003cp>Educators have been experimenting with technology, sharing ideas and collaborating as they try to find ways to reach a generation of students that has grown up with computers, cell phones, XBox, Nintendo and other electronics. K-12 schools, especially, have shown increased interest in using games, phones, iPads and other unconventional means to engage students in the classroom. Social media have accelerated the spread of ideas, spurring even more innovation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Online and hybrid education offers new means of engaging students through interactive lessons, videos, animations, games, discussion boards and chats. These are all familiar and comfortable technologies for a generation of students that has grown up with ubiquitous technology.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch5>\u003c/h5>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\n\u003ch5>RELATED READING:\u003c/h5>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2012/06/can-free-high-quality-education-get-you-a-job/\">Can Free, High-Quality Education Get You a Job?\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://wp.me/p2io8W-5yJ\">Guide to MOOCs: Massive Open Online Courses\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2012/02/whats-on-the-horizon-in-higher-education/\">What's on the Horizon in Higher Education\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>In the book \u003ca href=\"http://www.understandingthedigitalgeneration.com/\">\u003cem>Understanding the Digital Generation\u003c/em>,\u003c/a> Ian Jukes, Ted McCain, and Lee Crockett argue that members of this digital generation \"think and communicate in fundamentally different ways than any previous generation,\" even though most adults still view the world and the classroom through a 20th-century lens. Technology-aided learning helps break through these barriers and meets students on familiar ground. It isn't as panacea, though, as \u003ca href=\"http://www.jisc.ac.uk/publications/reports/2012/researchers-of-tomorrow#menu\">many students lack the skills\u003c/a> to create material in the online world, beyond texting and Facebook. Still, it meets students where they are.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch5>DIGITAL EDUCATION OFFERS BROAD REACH\u003c/h5>\n\u003cp>Online education allows universities to reach students who can't or don't want to move to a physical campus, eliminating physical boundaries for recruitment and making nearly anyone anywhere a potential student.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Distance education is nothing new. It has existed for more than a century in the form of \u003ca href=\"http://researchreportsedu.wordpress.com/2012/06/13/the-history-of-distance-education/\">correspondence courses\u003c/a> taken by mail. Radio and television allowed educational material, often lectures, to be broadcast, and educational shows such as \"\u003ca href=\"http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1868862,00.html\">Sesame Street\u003c/a>\" combined education and entertainment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CDs and CD-ROMS allowed multimedia lessons to be shared easily, and as the commercial Internet took hold in the 1990s, schools began experimenting with new ways to reach out to students in remote locations. This has accelerated with faster and cheaper technology.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Non-traditional students, those with families and jobs, and those who started but never finished degrees have sought out online education. Many are seeking new job skills to help them through tough economic times, and others are seeking advanced degrees after being laid off or in hopes of finding better jobs. The common bond among all is the inability to return full time to college campuses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>States such as \u003ca href=\"http://www.oregonlive.com/politics/index.ssf/2012/07/new_oregon_state_laws_take_eff.html\">Oregon\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.jsonline.com/news/education/walker-unveils-new-online-degree-program-985r0ro-159567555.html\">Wisconsin\u003c/a> are exploring new ways to help students to finish degrees, in some cases allowing them to turn job skills into college credit or to learn from the many free online courses and then test out of college courses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Related, \u003ca href=\"http://www.oecdobserver.org/news/fullstory.php/aid/3681/An_emerging_middle_class.html\">living standards for millions of people in countries such as India and China have improved\u003c/a>, allowing them to purchase new technology and seek out education as a means to a better life.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch5>FOR-PROFIT COLLEGES COMPETE FOR STUDENTS\u003c/h5>\n\u003cp>The University of Phoenix and other for-profit colleges have attracted millions of students and millions of dollars in tuition with online courses. This has caught the attention of traditional colleges and universities, which see many potential students slipping away. Some \u003ca href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lisa-nielsen/the-college-myth-why-coll_b_827633.html\">critics of traditional education\u003c/a> have even indicated that a degree matters less than tangible skills, and have suggested using certificates, badges and other means as a way to authenticate those skills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Research has cast doubt on the traditional college education. In \"What's the Use of Lectures?\" for instance, Donald Bligh says that a lecture \"cannot be used effectively on its own to promote thought or to change and develop attitudes.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hybrid courses, especially, offer the promise of improved learning, though results have been mixed. In a \u003ca href=\"http://www.sr.ithaka.org/research-publications/interactive-learning-online-public-universities-evidence-randomized-trials\">recent analysis\u003c/a> by the not-for-profit organization \u003ca href=\"http://www.ithaka.org/\">Ithaka S+R\u003c/a>, William Bowen and his colleagues warn against the inflated expectations of online and hybrid courses, saying that \"there is no compelling evidence that online learning systems available today ... can in fact deliver improved educational outcomes across the board.\" They see great potential in hybrid and online education, though, and urge educators to explore these options vigorously.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch5>BIG ONLINE COURSES GAIN NOTORIETY\u003c/h5>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2012/09/colleges2.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-23871\" title=\"colleges2\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2012/09/colleges2-300x166.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"166\">\u003c/a>New organizations such as \u003ca href=\"https://www.coursera.org/\">Coursera\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.edx.org/\">edX\u003c/a> have made headlines by attracting large numbers of students, large investments of capital, and commitments from big-name universities. That has increased the buzz about online and hybrid education, especially as new deals have been struck and new money has flowed to the organizations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The success of large online courses, or \u003ca href=\"http://chronicle.com/article/What-You-Need-to-Know-About/133475/\">MOOCs\u003c/a> (for massive open online courses), at attracting students and capital, and the success of for-profit colleges have sent many colleges and universities scrambling to avoid the perception that they lack vision or the ability to change in an era of digital learning. No university wants to look like an also-ran.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those fears have provided opportunities to outside companies that provide consulting, technology, outsourcing and other services for online courses. These companies typically provide capital upfront to help develop online courses and student services systems, and then take a portion of tuition (often about 50 percent) from new online students.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch5>COLLEGE BUDGETS KEEP SHRINKING\u003c/h5>\n\u003cp>Administrators are looking to online education and technology in general as a means to save money. Budgets have been squeezed, especially at public institutions, even as fixed costs remain high.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bowen and his colleagues at Ithaka S+R offer \u003ca href=\"http://www.sr.ithaka.org/research-publications/interactive-learning-online-public-universities-evidence-randomized-trials\">one of the more persuasive arguments\u003c/a> about potential cost savings through more efficient use of technology, personnel, and facilities. Upfront costs are higher as courses are developed, they say, but once a hybrid course is created by a faculty member, additional sections can be added using less-expensive adjuncts and teaching assistants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their conclusions assume that a hybrid course meets for fewer hours than a traditional lecture (one hour instead of three or four). Savings grow as enrollment grows, with the same class material used for more students. They see additional potential savings in reduced demand for large lecture spaces, allowing institutions to increase overall student population without building additional classrooms. 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Many K-12 schools have been \u003ca href=\"http://thenextweb.com/apple/2012/07/24/ipad-2-sales-strong-in-k-12-market-sold-2x-as-many-ipads-to-schools-as-macs/\">investing heavily in tablets\u003c/a> and other technology in hopes of reducing costs on textbooks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Others have embraced a \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.technet.com/b/security/archive/2012/07/18/beginner-s-guide-to-byod-bring-your-own-device.aspx\">bring-your-own-device model\u003c/a>, which draws on students' growing ownership and use of cell phones, laptop computers and tablets. Many schools are also investing in tools such as lecture capture, high-speed wireless networks, cloud computing, and social networking, and combining technology-aided education with classroom work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite these many changes, online education is unlikely to push aside a traditional four-year on-campus degree in the near future. 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