Questions tagged [online-learning]
Questions related to taking courses over the internet or other electronic distance-based coursework.
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Am I experiencing discrimination from my professor, and if so, how can I safely go about this? [closed]
Edited for privacy reasons, my apologies. This has been resolved and I am getting good grades now. No longer e-mailing her/not asking for advice helped my situation. The issue, I’m pretty sure, was ...
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Do online students deserve video content? [closed]
I teach different courses online and in person and expect all my students to read textbooks and web pages. The online students get an extra explanatory text every week that is meant to replace the ...
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Are online exam proctoring services efficient and trustworthy?
Several universities are providing online degrees using a service "Online Exam Proctoring". Have these online proctoring services reached to a level of efficiency and trustworthy that even a complete ...
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Is a professor allowed to take off points for an assignment they messed up?
In the final week of a class, our final project included an essay, presentation, and discussion board responses to the presentations. This is an online class so we depend on the availability of ...
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What indicates instructors' experience in online technology? [closed]
My research is qualitative; it aims to explore the experience of EFL instructors about online teaching. What potential semi-structured interview questions about experience towards online technology ...
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In which cases does my employer get informed?
I was thinking of attending a Harvard Online Certificate, but I saw these:
https://online.hbs.edu/legal/ that it says about in which cases my employer gets informed.
So, what I want to ask is this:
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Carrying out tests which would give a degree [duplicate]
With the Internet having more and more data every day, a lot of which is science-related, a kind of test could be used to give a degree for someone who knows a lot.
The questions of the test would be ...
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What's the purpose of 1-week, 2-week, 10-week..."X-week"... (online) professional certificates?
What's the purpose of 1-week, 2-week, 10-week..."X-week"... (online) professional certificates? I mean, they cost money, right(?) Where do they find implementation? Where can they be used?
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How useful are professional certificates for graduate program applications?
I'm a third-year undergraduate student, preparing to apply for Ph.D. programs in physics (and aiming to do research in theoretical physics). I'm planning to graduate with a double major in mathematics ...
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Points to focus on while making a video of an online teaching demonstration for a university teaching position application
I've applied for a mathematics teaching position at a university, and as part of the application process, I'm supposed to submit a video of my teaching. The exact guideline says:
"Select a small ...
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Online Education in a Civilization of Scarce Energy [closed]
In the context of a transition to lower energy consumption, one considers, among other things, the energy consumption of the Internet. Among the various uses of the Internet, it seems that the ...
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Error in PDF conversion led to lower score on test
My daughter is a college student. During her test she was required to use their online system to log in and answer the questions, then convert the results to PDF and upload to the professor. She ...
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How to avoid getting lost in referring multiple reference texts at the same time?
I am a 2nd year PhD student working on a project which involves control systems and power systems. For the next stage of my work, I have to learn about a control systems technique which I am not ...
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Baffled by online professor's response to my weekly reflections journal [closed]
I'm attending university 100% online. I have the same professor for three classes, which are all structured the same way. Every week there is assigned reading, videos, and a discussion board post with ...
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How to network with professors when not attending a univeristy
My story is a long one to tell, so I will just say my current situation and leave out how I got here. I am interested in studying mathematics but I do not have the opportunity to attend a university ...
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