{"id":11143,"date":"2010-11-02T18:42:43","date_gmt":"2010-11-02T22:42:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=11143"},"modified":"2010-11-02T18:43:52","modified_gmt":"2010-11-02T22:43:52","slug":"tomorrows-college","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2010\/11\/02\/tomorrows-college\/","title":{"rendered":"Tomorrow’s college"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tomorrow’s college<\/a> <\/strong>— from The Chronicle by Marc Parry
\nThe classroom of the future features face-to-face, online, and hybrid learning. And the future is here.<\/p>\n

Jennifer Black isn’t a fan of technology. Until college, she didn’t know much about online classes. If the stereotypical online student is a career-minded adult working full time, she’s the opposite\u2014a dorm-dwelling, ballet-dancing, sorority-joining 20-year-old who throws herself into campus life here at the University of Central Florida.<\/p>\n

Yet in the past year, the junior hospitality major has taken classes online, face to face, and in a blended format featuring elements of both. This isn’t unusual: More than half of the university’s 56,000 students will take an online or blended class this year, and nearly 2,700 are taking all three modes at once.<\/p>\n

As online education goes mainstream, it’s no longer just about access for distant learners who never set foot in the student union. Web courses are rewiring what it means to be a “traditional” student at places like Central Florida, one of the country’s largest public universities. And UCF’s story raises a question for other colleges: Will this mash-up of online and offline learning become the new normal elsewhere, too?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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