{"id":642,"date":"2013-04-09T10:31:49","date_gmt":"2013-04-09T14:31:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/ohcd\/?page_id=642"},"modified":"2017-06-16T13:27:09","modified_gmt":"2017-06-16T17:27:09","slug":"online-courses","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/ohcd\/course-development-process\/definitions\/online-courses\/","title":{"rendered":"Online Course"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">The Sloan Consortium defines online courses as \u201c<b>All course activity is done online; there are no required face-to-face sessions within the course.\u201d<\/b>\u00a0 However, this does not mean that students progress at their own pace without the guidance of faculty. Faculty play a tremendous role in facilitating and guiding students to achieve mastery of the course goals through timely feedback and \u2018presence\u2019. \u00a0In the past, online courses were generally taken by the non-traditional student. However, 90% of current high-school students are entering college with some online course experience. Online courses break down geographical barriers and time\/day restraints because there is no set meeting day\/time.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Sloan Consortium defines online courses as \u201cAll course activity is done online; there are no required face-to-face sessions within the course.\u201d\u00a0 However, this does not mean that students progress at their own pace without the guidance of faculty. Faculty play a tremendous role in facilitating and guiding students to achieve mastery of the course &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/ohcd\/course-development-process\/definitions\/online-courses\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"parent":617,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-onecolumn.php","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-642","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","nodate","item-wrap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/ohcd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/ohcd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/ohcd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/ohcd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/ohcd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=642"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/ohcd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":714,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/ohcd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/642\/revisions\/714"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/ohcd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/ohcd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}