Questions tagged [online-learning]
Questions related to taking courses over the internet or other electronic distance-based coursework.
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In which cases does my employer get informed?
I was thinking of attending a Harvard Online Certificate, but I saw these:
https://online.hbs.edu/legal/ that it says about in which cases my employer gets informed.
So, what I want to ask is this:
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Carrying out tests which would give a degree [duplicate]
With the Internet having more and more data every day, a lot of which is science-related, a kind of test could be used to give a degree for someone who knows a lot.
The questions of the test would be ...
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What's the purpose of 1-week, 2-week, 10-week..."X-week"... (online) professional certificates?
What's the purpose of 1-week, 2-week, 10-week..."X-week"... (online) professional certificates? I mean, they cost money, right(?) Where do they find implementation? Where can they be used?
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How useful are professional certificates for graduate program applications?
I'm a third-year undergraduate student, preparing to apply for Ph.D. programs in physics (and aiming to do research in theoretical physics). I'm planning to graduate with a double major in mathematics ...
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Points to focus on while making a video of an online teaching demonstration for a university teaching position application
I've applied for a mathematics teaching position at a university, and as part of the application process, I'm supposed to submit a video of my teaching. The exact guideline says:
"Select a small ...
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Online Education in a Civilization of Scarce Energy [closed]
In the context of a transition to lower energy consumption, one considers, among other things, the energy consumption of the Internet. Among the various uses of the Internet, it seems that the ...
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Error in PDF conversion led to lower score on test
My daughter is a college student. During her test she was required to use their online system to log in and answer the questions, then convert the results to PDF and upload to the professor. She ...
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How to avoid getting lost in referring multiple reference texts at the same time?
I am a 2nd year PhD student working on a project which involves control systems and power systems. For the next stage of my work, I have to learn about a control systems technique which I am not ...
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Baffled by online professor's response to my weekly reflections journal [closed]
I'm attending university 100% online. I have the same professor for three classes, which are all structured the same way. Every week there is assigned reading, videos, and a discussion board post with ...
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How to network with professors when not attending a univeristy
My story is a long one to tell, so I will just say my current situation and leave out how I got here. I am interested in studying mathematics but I do not have the opportunity to attend a university ...
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What are some tips to get more out of long pre-recorded lectures?
I am seeing some online lectures and it seems so that my attention is decaying quite fast as time progresses in the lecture. Most lectures I find on the internet are 1hr yet the the time I can focus ...
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How to lead a succesful academic book club?
I have started an academic book club but I somewhat have a hard time with it. We are reading a slightly complicated text, so I decided to do a slow-paced reading; but up until now, only one person ...
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Is online education really free? [closed]
Hi i am from a developing country but for some reasons can't reach the university for now and i want to know if i really can have access to (let's say) a developed country grade education (solid bases)...
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Using Discord to support online teaching
This is a question I plan to self answer, but answers from others are very welcome too.
This term, I am teaching group and Galois theory. This is a heavily inquiry based learning (IBL) course, where ...
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Is a professor allowed to take off points for an assignment they messed up?
This is my final week in this class and our final project included an essay, presentation, and discussion board responses to the presentations. This is an online class so we depend on the availability ...
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What to do when a professor hasn't uploaded course content for an online class?
I'm a student in an online class at university, and we're now a few weeks into the course. So far, only two lectures have been uploaded—there should be six or seven. On the course discussion board, ...
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Is It Acceptable to Contact the Professor of a Publicly Uploaded Lecture?
A full graduate level course is publicly uploaded as a series of videos on Youtube. Within the housekeeping section at the beginning of the course, the professor provides an email address as a means ...
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Can someone enroll in an on-campus PhD program on the basis of a "distance learning" Master's degree?
What would be the status of a distance-learning Master's program in academia? Would it fulfill the requirement of an on-campus Ph.D. program?
What would be the status of a distantce-learning doctoral ...
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Online tool for receiving student files
I'm a TA in several modules and one thing I couldn't find yet is a system to help me manage student lab submissions. Most online collaborative tools I've seen do not allow me to, or make it quite ...
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How to get students to use the course forum?
Forums are common features of online courses. The software is usually provided by the institution. It is in everyone's interest to make a course forum useful, maybe even lively; generally we want more ...
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Is it inappropriate to use school-provided remote learning tools to pursue friendship or relationship with another student?
Note: I am currently not enrolled in any courses, whether remote or in-person. This question is based on a post I saw a couple days ago on Reddit where someone asked a similar question.
Now that ...
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Quality and effectiveness of remote/online vs traditional teaching?
Currently when a lot of traditionally taught courses are converted to online and remote education - what does science say about the effectiveness of that compared to the traditional classroom ...
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What strategies are there for defining learner profiles for an online course aimed at international students?
I am interested in developing a set of postgraduate level courses that will be taught entirely online aimed at a primarily international (non-UK) audience.
I am seeking strategies for defining a set ...
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Creating a StackExchange "Team" for an Academic class to replace the Canvas online discussion board [closed]
I am a community college math instructor. We use the Canvas learning management system for our online courses. Most of us use the built-in online discussion board in Canvas where students can share ...
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How can I deal with students who try to steer a course (in the online setting)?
I am not a course instructor, but I am a teaching assistant for a large course in STEM in the large US school. I have been soliciting advice from students to improve the course and tutorial for the ...
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How do I regain interest in a class if I’ve lost confidence in the instructor’s depth of knowledge?
I have joined a 3-4 months technical, online course related to my profession. I know the basics of this subject, yet wanted to get in-depth content about it and hence opted for this one. The course is ...
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Mailing list or websites for remote teaching positions in universities [closed]
I'm currently a part time math lecturer in an engineering college in France, but I'm very much willing to teach undergraduate level math courses outside France. However, despite searching on usual ...
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Does an institution commit misconduct if it gives a low-quality online course to its graduate students?
I'm a graduate student in Physics. The past semester was online due to the current situation. We had a particular course named "Workshop course" which is about the metal shop where usually ...
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Is Wiley Plus able to detect when students are cheating?
I am supposed to start teaching on Wiley Plus for the first time this coming summer semester, and as someone who is already not the most tech-savvy, I have concerns regarding students cheating on ...
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How should faculty implement STEM classes that require hands-on lab experience in online learning platforms given COVID-19 pandemic?
I am a STEM teaching assistant. I know some professors were using physical class materials in engineering classes. How do you think they should respond to COVID-19-forced online education and still ...
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How do I email other students in my online classes, to make friends, without appearing creepy?
I have been studying remotely at my university since September 2021. Each of my weekly classes on Zoom has around ten people. I always turn on my camera. But I still do not know any my classmates. ...
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Problem with online class
I am a student at my local community college taking pre-nursing classes. My professor for A&P II requires a 360 camera while taking all the tests online on response. I have two small kids who I ...
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What questions could I ask students in an online questionnaire to improve my online teaching?
Like many of us, I imagine, I have been giving online lectures, tutorials, Q&A sessions, exams, etc. for almost a year (and I just realized that it has, indeed, been almost a year...).
I have been ...
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Accused of cheating on online exams
This week I was accused of cheating on two online exams in two separate classes.
Both professors are claiming the lockdown browser recordings show "evidence" of me cheating. When I asked ...
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How can I prove that I didn't plagiarize?
This year I have decided to take a Computer Science course on FLVS, an online learning institution.
Throughout the whole year, I worked well, and I had a lot of fun with the course. I was close to ...
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Are university internal, password protected ANONYMOUS discussion forums truly anonymous? [closed]
Here I ask just about a university's internal password protected discussion boards. They are for university students and instructors.
Because you must log in with your university details and password, ...
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What are good habits in learning mathematics well?
Please bear with me while I provide some background and then ask my question, which I hope you will be able to answer and thus aid my capacity to learn mathematics more efficiently and thoroughly.
I ...
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Can the terms Alpha/Beta release be applied to an online course?
Alpha and Beta releases are stages in software release life cycle. Could these terms be used to denote the stages of ripeness of an online course?
The background for this question is that I have ...
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Why are online lecture notes usually not accessible to non-students?
When looking for online lecture notes, I notice that most of the time you have to be a student and login in using your institution information to get access.
Why would a professor not show the lecture ...
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Finding a classmate to achieve access to academic learning process and connection for non-registered learning enthusiasts [closed]
I will probably not be accepted to the Master of Cognitive Sciences program this year at a university in my country, but I don't want to lose my passion for learning and waste my time. So, I made an ...
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Is there an analogue to the Open University in Italy?
Is there an analogue to the Open University in Italy? By that, I mean a respected public distance-learning university with few/no access barriers. Another institution of this type would be the "...
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How to cope with studying on online platforms [closed]
I would like to know about any suggestions that the community can give about coping with online school. I have both school and my coaching classes. Hence the screen time is too high and I also require ...
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Should I not ask my students about their hometown?
Recently, I taught a class of five students. I asked for their native place and all said that their hometown is X, but I didn't tell them my reason for asking.
I asked them because I can communicate ...
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Can I study remotely in a USA university as a foreigner (Covid-19)? What are the prerequisites? [closed]
I thought because of COVID-19 and remote education plans, maybe some universities are providing a remote plan for international students. My goal is a PhD in machine learning, maybe I can start as a ...
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Is the ability to follow online presentations now a must-have academic skill?
I was never a big fan of live online (research and technical) presentations, lectures or seminars. I'd use pre-recorded online materials when looking into a topic myself, but I was never able to ...
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Can I include the completion of Udacity and Coursera classes I have attended in an academic CV?
Can I include in my academic CV that I have attended and completed the Coursera and Udacity classes I have been taking? I understand that these are not anything major, but the courses definitely gives ...
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How do the completion of online courses impact a Master's application?
I see places like Coursera, Udacity and EdX offer certificates upon successful completion of course work. Also most of the people doing recorded teaching at these places are famous and well known ...
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I am unable to submit online quizzes on time due to technical difficulties, and it is negatively affecting my mental health. Can I get extra time? [closed]
I am an undergrad student taking a chemistry class. We have a 50 minutes quiz every week during the discussion section. The TA usually emails this quiz to us, and while my class is at 1:00 pm, the TA ...
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What value does self-learning a course (or several) have in graduate admissions?
I am an undergraduate student who hopes to switch my major from engineering to Physics. Although this switch is possible, I lack several crucial foundation courses in Physics such as electrodynamics ...
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Tracking reading progress of documentations or ebooks [closed]
Challenge: I need to read a lot of documentations and websites, but often in random order. I need to track which articles of a website, or which pages of a documentation I already read. I want to mark ...
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