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Geoscience Online Education: Present and future On the Cutting Edge 2014 Jonathan Tomkin, University of Illinois

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Geoscience Online Education: Present and future

On the Cutting Edge 2014Jonathan Tomkin, University of Illinois

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Total and Online Enrollment - USA (2002 – 2010)

Allen and Seaman (2011)

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Online Enrollment as % Total Enrollment (2002 - 2010)

Allen and Seaman (2011)

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Does it work? Academic Leaders Opinion

Allen and Seaman (2011)

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Current growth in geoscience education is in online courses and programs.

What about MOOCs?

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https://www.coursera.com/https://www.udacity.com/https://www.edx.org/

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We bundle research (generates prestige – signal!), campus experience, etc with the degree. Other bundlers? Newspapers (ads paid for reporting)…

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On-campus credit 0.16 K

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On-campus credit 0.16 KMOOC “credit” 5 K

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On-campus credit 0.16 KMOOC “credit” 5 KMOOC enrollees 70K

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