Questions tagged [online-learning]
Questions related to taking courses over the internet or other electronic distance-based coursework.
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How one legally can justify distance learning for on campus programs? [closed]
A few years ago we wanted to open a new program that will be based on distance learning, however, getting accredited for having a master degree program that is based on distance learning and not on ...
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Does auditing a course hold any value?
I was quite curious about doing neuroscience so I reached out to a prof in my institution (IIT-K), who suggested me an online course on the same (MCB80). I have audit the course and am following it ...
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My professor is not teaching his online course himself, but uses publicly available videos instead. Is this appropriate?
I'm taking a graduate course online this semester, and have noticed a few things:
Professor has assigned us a mid-term, a final, and a research paper as the coursework for the class. These are the ...
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Stance of universities on remote video proctoring of online exams
Due to coronavirus, many places have been forced to shift to remote online exams. Have any schools issued guidance about the acceptability of proctoring online exams by requiring students to use a ...
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risk of shifting to online learning permanently [closed]
My university, like many others, has recently moved to remote teaching in response to the corona virus situation. In my department, the faculty have taken the lead on finding and adopting solutions to ...
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Tips for transition to online classrooms given university shutdowns in response to COVID-19
Given the recent shutdowns of many universities across the world, there's an increased interest in online education techniques.
In my case, I am a TA for a quantum chemistry class, and I'm finding it ...
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How can I collect popular questions from my students?
This is a question about moving my courses online. I'm aware of the FAQ posted on this site to help these issues, but haven't seen my specific question addressed there. I also asked a version of this ...
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Are online bachelor's degrees offered on Coursera the exact same as offline degrees?
The University of London is offering a bachelor's degree in computer science. It costs over 10k GBP and only opens application twice a year to high school graduates and beyond. Does it have the exact ...
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How is a Coursera exam typically conducted?
Many Coursera online courses have an exam component. This raises the question:
How is a Coursera exam typically conducted?
It seems non-obvious to me how one would conduct an exam involving students ...
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Is it appropriate to have assignments due during spring break for an online course?
I am the author and teacher of an online introductory course at my community college. Each chapter in my class is designed to take one week to complete, where the assignments are due at the end of ...
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Software to live-stream presentations [closed]
I would like to be able to live-stream presentations online in case my school closes. My presentations are in power point. Ideally I would like to share my screen so I can use other software ...
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Is it possible that I can get a Duke University user account to access math videos? [closed]
I am an independent student of math and want to use many interesting video courses. Unfortunately the math video courses of Duke university are unavailable for others. So I want to know
Is there ...
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Professor does not provide feedback, grades, or lecture - Do I have the grounds to file a complaint? [closed]
I am in a graduate level (online) mathematics course. At the beginning of the course, the professor told us to post all of our homework solutions to the online learning forum which is open for ...
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Doing Bachelors degree in Maths as distant education for Phd in Mathematics after regular Master's in Optics
I finished my masters in Optics(5 years bachelors+masters together) recently. In the course I had to study subjects like Classical mechanics, Statistical Mechanics,Electrodynamics, Quantum physics and ...
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Moderating online education forums: delete, snip or leave rudeness?
I'm a moderator for an online forum for a particular module at a distance-learning University.
Part of the job is to answer questions regarding course materials, the other main part is to be on the ...
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Are management courses useless? [closed]
As a business students I have taken tons of management courses - from marketing theories to company strategies to human resources. But I feel I literally got nothing out of them. What we have done is ...
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Distance Learning vs Free Online Education
I'm currently enrolled as a first year student doing a computing related degree (my first) at the University of London (distance learning). Since I started, there has been a massive shifts in online ...
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Doctoral Advising: No Available, Appropriate Chairs
I work at a regional university in the United States. Several years ago (before I arrived) our department admitted five years of doctoral students (approximately 50 students) as general admits to a ...
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Digital media rights for online courses (US)
I've been trying to research how digital media can be lawfully utilized for online, distance-learning courses. The specific use case here would not be a MOOC or anything massive, but an online course ...
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Do MLA guidelines apply in the UK? [closed]
Not sure if this is the right place to put this but:
This week I started a six-week school project to write a research paper about diseases. As part of my preperation, I read a short paper on writing ...
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How to deal with math problems if there is no solution book and no helpful teachers?
Since a short time ago, I refuse to try solving math questions of which there is no solution available, unless I'm working on an own/open problem in my thesis. In subjects however, I refuse, because ...
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Course on Moodle - how to download all student interactions?
My institution uses Moodle as online learning platform. I am enthusiastic at Moodle capabilities, and suspect this had a positive effect on my class. Would like to prove it (or disprove it) by looking ...
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How troublesome is it for a professor to replace a document posted on D2L?
On many occasions I've had professors that will post assignment instruction documents on "Desire 2 Learn" or D2L, realize they made a mistake on those instructions, and tell us students either in ...
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Is it possible to do a cheap or free online or distance Ph.D. program? [closed]
Is it possible do to an online or distance Ph.D. program at all?
If so, are there ones that are cheap or free?
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Violated academic integrity on an online coursework. What do I do?
basically I was working on the answers with my friend and didn’t realize the questions were slightly different and therefore I used the answers we got that were based off of hers to mine. I am scared, ...
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What to do if my professor won't give me a grade for a test?
So I took this online class and the professor didn't grade our exams till the end of the semester and I was surprised to learn that I got a 0 on the first one. Now I remember taking this test and ...
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University learning over online learning [duplicate]
What are some advantages of learning on-campus that one does not get from learning online?
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Software that skips pauses in lecture recordings [closed]
I enjoy listening to lectures at 1.5x speed because I retain the same amount of information while saving time. I find that 2x speed is usually too fast except when the speaker pauses. I'm curious if ...
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Is it possible to pursue a PhD while working full time and living in another country?
I work full time as a Chief Operating Officer for a company and would like to pursue a PhD and study the population I am working with (women workers in fisheries).
I have been researching different ...
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Recommended course weight for online quizzes outside of class
In many of my classes (mainly with undergraduate students), I begin every class session with a reading quiz, that is, a short, simple multiple-choice quiz on their assigned reading, to make sure that ...
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Are online exam proctoring services efficient and trustworthy?
Several universities are providing online degrees using a service "Online Exam Proctoring". Have these online proctoring services reached to a level of efficiency and trustworthy that even a complete ...
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Why don't typical US colleges offer more online courses? [closed]
Why don't typical US colleges offer more online courses so that all of the classes could be taken online?
Online courses are cheaper, more profitable and more efficient to produce quantity of student(...
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What is the more efficient way of self-teaching, when the return is diminishing?
What is the more efficient way of self-teaching, when the return is diminishing? Keep on trying? or study more basic stuffs?
I am currently teaching myself a few subjects, but I have noticed that the ...
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Will "academic expert" for study website hurt me on the academic job market?
I've been offered a side job working to answer submitted student questions (at my own discretion) related to my field of expertise for a study website. Seems pretty harmless as a way to earn very ...
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Teacher has done nothing all semester - should I say something?
My Teacher for a required course has been completely unreliable for any amount of actual teaching. He is honestly the worst teacher myself or pretty much any of the other students have ever had.
It'...
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Online vs hard copy, which texts are students more likely to read?
I am wondering if anyone knows of any studies that indicate whether students read online texts more or less than hard copy texts.
I am in the midst of trying to "reboot" the intro stats class I teach ...
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How do you send personalized information to each student in Moodle?
My institution uses Moodle as our learning management system. I want to send some information to each student that is personalized to each student but without any other students seeing it. This is a ...
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How can I get back on track after falling behind on my online courses? [closed]
I need some advice on how to catch up on my online courses. I have gotten really far behind on my work and lack the motivation to keep going. This my second year taking online courses and it seems ...
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What is the value of a Coursera certificate?
I took up an introductory course to forensic science in Coursera, because it was actually the only forensics course I could find that was accessible, however I do wonder if it is worth anything in my ...
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Can e-learning self assesment tools be incorporated in engineering education?
Grading homeworks and continuous inventing of new homework problems is time consuming work. Based on positive homework we run pretest elimination. Eg. students who solve homework can attend semestral ...
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How can I organise my own proctor in South America for a foreign university exam? [closed]
I am taking an online accredited course at Illinois and I need to have someone in South America proctor a test (preferably Bolivia, Argentina, or Chile).
Anyone have any suggestions for how to ...
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Do online students deserve video content?
I teach different courses online and in person and expect all my students to read textbooks and web pages. The online students get an extra explanatory text every week that is meant to replace the ...
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Does self-study leads to fast but shallow knowledge acquisition [closed]
On another SE site i have read that
Self-study often leads to rapid but shallow knowledge acquisition.
I'm a software engineer and i spend a lot of time taking math and physics courses on ...
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How does one go about starting a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC)?
Currently my university does not offer any MOOCs. I am interested in creating one. How should I go about it? Does my university need to sign an agreement with one of the providers such as Coursera or ...
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Is it possible to write PhD thesis (or PhD level article) in Computer Science without (real) advisor?
Is it possible to write PhD thesis (or PhD thesis level scientific articles) in Computer Science without real advisor (of course there always be formal one)? E.g. there are (almost) no books how to ...
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Would summarizing peer-reviewed articles on a blog be frowned upon?
Lately I've been reading a lot of the influential papers in my field (computer science, but specifically, machine learning). What's about to happen if I decide to publish my detailed notes (along with ...
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What are differences between various indexing service: SCI, SSCI, SCOPUS and others? [closed]
I wanted to submit a paper to "Computer & Education (IF: 3.819 and indexed in many other indexing system)" journal by Elsevier, but unfortunately submitted a paper to "The Internet and Higher ...
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