Doug Ward

The rush to create large, free online classes has generated anxiety at universities around the country. With finances already tight and with a surge of movement toward online learning, universities are being forced to move quickly to change centuries-old models of learning. Terms like historic, seismic and revolutionary now pop up in descriptions of the challenges that higher education faces in the coming years.

Many institutions have been preparing for these changes for years, building infrastructure and expertise, experimenting and recruiting, and integrating online learning into long-term strategies. 

Written by Doug Ward, an associate professor of journalism and the Budig Professor of Writing at the University of Kansas, here is an article about his students’ experience with a iPad over a semester.  From The Chronicle of Higher Education: I had high hopes when I handed out iPads to students in my graduate seminar [...]