online education

College students shift to dorm learning
By Lauren Fabrizi
November 5, 2010 - 6:11pm
Many college students across the nation view their lectures online through streaming videos.

Many colleges throughout the country are shifting to online education, according to The New York Times.

In 2008, 4.6 million students took a college-level online course during their fall semester, according to the Sloan Survey of Online Learning. Jeff Seaman, the co-director of the survey, said that very few of the students enrolled in online courses attend private colleges.

Gaming class goes online through YouTube
By Matthew Nojiri
July 16, 2009 - 3:28pm
SU professor says he's moving online education in a new direction

Syracuse University professor Scott Nicholson is teaching a class of more than 300 people from the comfort of his own home..

There, Nicholson, an associate professor in SU’s School of Information Studies, or iSchool, records a daily video blog about how libraries can bring people together through gaming programs, whether it’s an older board game like Monopoly or a newer electronic game like Dance Dance Revolution.  What makes his course,“Gaming in Libraries,”  different from other online classes is that his is taught entirely through YouTube.