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In Episode 40, “globetrotters.edu,” Sandy Strick and Karen Edwards at the University of South Carolina, described how they created virtual study abroad trips for their Hospitality and Marketing students. Initially, they needed an alternative when the pandemic stopped international travel, but they discovered they had created a valuable format to use for learners who couldn’t

By now, practically everyone who has a connection to academia has heard that the traditional audience for higher education is headed for a demographic cliff. In response, colleges and universities are exploring ways to attract an older audience of degree completers and life-long learners to bridge the gap. But who counts as an adult learner, and how do we retain them once we have t

It’s especially appropriate that we’re taking a deeper dive into the topic of virtual field experiences on this Wired Ivy Footnotes episode because as I’m speaking, early in May 2022, Dan is in Europe having just completed a study abroad experience with a group of our students in Finland and Estonia, and he’s just started to working with a second group of students in Switze

As the world reopens, in fits and starts, higher ed is attempting to speed away from the pandemic as quickly as possible. But the end of the academic year is now on the horizon and, for academics, that means it’s time for an assessment. A glance in the rear-view mirror, a review of the virtual content and activities created to address a specific, limited-term situation, and consi

Educators who are engaged in online teaching are, at some point, going to hear the words "quality matters." At first mentioned, this seems self-evident. As educators, we understand that the quality of our course design content and delivery is important for learners to have a productive and hopefully optimal learning experience. No one would argue with that. But that is sm

It’s time for Wired Ivy Office Hours! A quick but deep dive into an online higher ed term or concept to cultivate effective communication and weed out confusion. Prior to 2014, academic institutions in couldn’t legally give non-resident students access to their online courses without going through a costly and lengthy case-by-case approval process for their classes and degree p

Listeners who’ve followed Wired Ivy for a while now will know Dan and Kieran are firm believers that course design needs to begin with the learning objectives, regardless of academic level and mode of delivery. And yet, when we listened to the previous episode, Made to Measure, we couldn't help but notice it doesn't include any guidance on how to develop those all-impor

High-stakes academic assessments create conditions that motivate students to cheat. At the same time everyone wants a laudable level of academic integrity in higher learning. Fair or not, for many years there has been a dismissive accusation that online learning was particularly vulnerable to massive cheating. Then, when universities made the wholesale emergency pivot from in-perso

A popular perception, especially in the Age of Covid, is that online instruction consists solely of delivering lectures via Zoom to a Hollywood Squares screen of boxed faces and, therefore, doesn’t allow for personal connections to form between instructor and instructed or between learners. Tell that to students who have taken online classes from Wired Ivy co-host Dan Marcucci! A

In Episode 30 - Ocean Onliners, our guest Elizabeth Sanli offered perspectives from both sides of the virtual podium – she teaches online courses for Memorial University - Newfoundland and Labrador's University and she's currently an online student, pursuing a Bachelor of Education to go along with her PhD in Kinesiology. Returning to class as a student has raised Eliza