Geoscience Online Education: Present and future On the Cutting Edge 2014 Jonathan Tomkin, University of Illinois
Total and Online Enrollment - USA (2002 – 2010) Allen and Seaman (2011)
Online Enrollment as % Total Enrollment ( ) Allen and Seaman (2011)
Does it work? Academic Leaders Opinion Allen and Seaman (2011)
Current growth in geoscience education is in online courses and programs. What about MOOCs?
We bundle research (generates prestige – signal!), campus experience, etc with the degree. Other bundlers? Newspapers (ads paid for reporting)…
On-campus credit 0.16 K
MOOC “credit” 5 K
On-campus credit 0.16 K MOOC “credit” 5 K MOOC enrollees70K
active 3985 enrolled MOOC Participation