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November 5, 2007
NYT and online courses
Here's a nugget from this article in the New York Times:
Classroom of the Future Is Virtually Anywhere
"Welcome to the brave burgeoning world of online education. It’s a world most of us, whether we like it or not, will have to grapple with, as students, tuition-paying parents or employees. Nearly 3.5 million college or graduate students, one of every five, took at least one online course last fall, double the figures of five years earlier, according to a survey of 2,500 campuses published last week in a collaboration among the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the College Board and a Babson College research group"
I wonder how many academic libraries have a clear and successful strategy for reaching these students? What are the best practices? How are they given research success training? Are they easily identified and marketing to? How do they get their library cards, passwords, registrations, etc.?
Stephen
Posted by stephen at November 5, 2007 12:09 PM