{"id":4718,"date":"2012-11-09T14:11:56","date_gmt":"2012-11-09T21:11:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stage.headlessnauedu-b6hgdzckfdgxgzhe.westus-01.azurewebsites.net\/?p=4718"},"modified":"2016-02-20T12:11:19","modified_gmt":"2016-02-20T19:11:19","slug":"online-free-and-here-to-stay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/online-free-and-here-to-stay\/","title":{"rendered":"Online, free and here to stay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><em>By Laura Huenneke, Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>As NAU wrestles with technological transformations ranging from the use of BbLearn to the President\u2019s Technology Innovation fund to <a href=\"http:\/\/stage.headlessnauedu-b6hgdzckfdgxgzhe.westus-01.azurewebsites.net\/innovative-personalized-learning-pushes-boundaries-to-better-serve-students\/\">Personalized Learning<\/a>, the national conversation about innovation in higher education is racing ahead.<\/p>\n<p>More institutions are jumping on the bandwagon of providing courses to Udacity, Coursera and the like. Access to these massive open online courses\u2014or MOOCs\u2014free of charge, increases daily, it seems, along with discussions about them. Curious? Visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mooc.ca\/courses.htm\">this easy portal<\/a> that\u2019s definitely worth checking out. Anyone with an Internet connection can find an intriguing offering, from computer science to cosmology, software design to sociology.<\/p>\n<p>In recent days a new market has been established for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.antioch.edu\/antioch-announcement\/antioch-university-becomes-first-us-institution-to-offer-credit-for-mooc-learning-through-coursera\/\">providing credit or credentials<\/a> to students completing MOOCs. And for the latest proof that the phenomenon is here to stay: the start of discussions about whether, and how, to <a href=\"http:\/\/chea.org\/ia\/IA_2012.10.31.html\">assess quality through an accreditation system<\/a> similar to institutional accreditation.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve heard from one of our faculty members, who has tremendous experience teaching online, about having an interest in creating a MOOC. Undoubtedly, others at NAU with strong online capabilities share this interest.<\/p>\n<p>My own prejudice springs up here. Why should we give such expertise away for free? But I have to admit we can\u2019t hide from this brave (if unsettling) new world. President Haeger\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/stage.headlessnauedu-b6hgdzckfdgxgzhe.westus-01.azurewebsites.net\/president-haeger-schedules-nov-26-campus-forum\/\">campus forum<\/a> on Nov. 26 will focus on how these technological developments are reshaping the higher education landscape and how we might best harness them to serve our students. Plan on participating!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4727\" title=\"tech\" src=\"http:\/\/stage.headlessnauedu-b6hgdzckfdgxgzhe.westus-01.azurewebsites.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/tech.jpg\" alt=\"technology\" width=\"650\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/402\/2012\/11\/tech.jpg 650w, https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/402\/2012\/11\/tech-300x69.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"search-results-excerpt-link\" href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/online-free-and-here-to-stay\/\">By Laura Huenneke, Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs As NAU wrestles with technological transformations ranging from the use of BbLearn to the President\u2019s Technology Innovation fund to Personalized Learning, the national conversation about innovation in higher education is racing ahead. More institutions are jumping on the bandwagon of providing courses to Udacity, Coursera&hellip;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":2219,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-views-from-nau"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4718\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}