CHAPEL HILL â UNC System officials know many students werenât happy with the makeshift courses they abruptly shifted to take online this spring due to the coronavirus pandemic. So, not knowing when the state might face a second wave of the virus, theyâre working to improve online offerings for if and when thereâs a next… READ MORE
Susan Cates: COVID-19 crisis offers an education opportunity
By Susan Cates When thoughtfully planned, technology-enhanced learning can improve the educational experience for students and faculty and lower total costs across the system. Although this springâs emergency response left no room for the luxury of thoughtful planning, COVID-19 may provide an opportunity for North Carolina to consider transformation of its higher education system to… READ MORE
Pandemic Pedagogy!
GREENSBORO â When it became clear in early March that the UNC System and colleges across the country would shift classes online in response to the coronavirus, Roy Schwartzman knew his fellow professors might need help. So Schwartzman â a professor of Communication Studies at UNC Greensboro and veteran online instructor â created a Facebook… READ MORE
50,000 classes online
CHAPEL HILL â âDisruptiveâ can be a loaded term. But if anythingâs been disruptive to higher education â in North Carolina and around the world â itâs the coronavirus. Jim Ptaszynski, Vice President for Digital Learning for the University of North Carolina System, put the enormity of UNC institutionsâ abrupt shift to remote learning into… READ MORE
Virtual class and a 3-foot cheeseburger
CHAPEL HILL â When word came that UNC-Chapel Hill would move all classes online due to the coronavirus, Associate Professor Steven King didnât hesitate. King shipped virtual-reality headsets to the 28 students in his class on emerging technologies in journalism. They now meet in a virtual classroom where everyone appears as an avatar with their… READ MORE
An Act of God â All of Higher Ed Goes Online
By Buck Goldstein If youâd asked me a month ago what it would take to get all faculty on my campus teaching an online course, I would have glibly answered, âAn act of God.â I imagine a lot of administrators across the country would have felt the same. But an epic disruption in the form… READ MORE
Find flexibility with UNCG Online
GREENSBORO â Whether theyâre juggling the demands of a job, caring for children or caring for parents, nontraditional students can find it hard to make it to a university campus. So â because about 80% of its students work full- or part-time â UNC Greensboro has vastly expanded online course offerings both for nontraditional students… READ MORE
UNCG Online: Immediate ROI in the workplace
GREENSBORO â Students in at least one online program at UNC Greensboro donât have to wait for their degree to put their new skills to work. They can do it right now. In the accompanying video, Dr. Karen Bull, Dean of UNCG Online, highlights UNCGâs Bachelor of Science in Integrated Professional Studies, an online program… READ MORE
Harry Smith: The No. 1 online platform
CHAPEL HILL â The new Chair of the University of North Carolina Board of Governors pictures big things from the UNC System online, not unlike the massive offerings of Arizona State and Liberty Universities. âIâm very pro-developing a robust System online platform. Â Right now we compete (with each other), and weâve never harnessed the power… READ MORE
[email protected] takes Chapel Hill to you
CHAPEL HILL â [email protected], the online MBA offered by the University of North Carolina Kenan-Flagler Business School, has been ranked among the best in the nation by various publications. But its students certainly arenât limited to this nation. UNC Kenan-Flagler has had students attend class from aircraft carriers, while fighting pirates in Africa, on deployment… READ MORE