As of 2009, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) reports 28,756 students enrolled. Just over 10,000 of those students are listed as part time students (under 9 credit hours). IUPUI is made up of a total minority student population of close to 5,000. Just over 16,000 students are classified as 24 years of age or younger while over 12,500 students are 25 years of age or older.
Nearly 700 students are enrolled in the Informatics degree program at IUPUI with 540 at the undergraduate level and 157 at the graduate level. Of the nearly 700 students, over half (365) are enrolled in the Media Arts and Science program, with 340 at the undergraduate level and 25 at the graduate level. Almost 70% of the students enrolled in the Media Arts and Science Program are full time students, with 35% of those students in the Media Arts and Science Program at 25 years of age or older. Of the 340 undergraduate students in the Media Arts and Science program at IUPUI, 93 are part time students, 71 are a minority race and 113 are 25 years of age or older.
To summarize, the undergraduate student population at IUPUI is comprised of a heterogeneous group of learners: commuting students, older adult students, online students, on-campus students, and first-generation college students. These students come from a range of diverse backgrounds. Therefore, the average IUPUI student experience can vary greatly when compared to campus life at a traditional, four-year residency college or university.
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The course in which the research was conducted is N100, and it is an introductory course in the Media Arts and Science program under the Indiana University School of Informatics at IUPUI. It is a large lecture course that is held in...
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...ut it is suggested so that students are able to put names to faces during live lecture. The social network is divided into two types of forums: the course forum and the casual forum. In the course forum, the students discuss the lectures and the reading material. In the casual forum, the students connect to classmates just as in Facebook. The course is split into three sections. In each section of the course, you are required to start at least 1 new forum thread on a reading or lecture issue, and respond to another person’s forum thread on a reading or lecture issue. You can also fully participate in the casual forum to get to know your classmates and discover similar interests and share ideas, but you are only going to be evaluated on the postings in the course forum. Course forum threads, posted in each section of the course, are cumulatively worth 100 points.
Hearst, Patricia. (2014). Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia. Retrieved January 27, 2014, from Grolier Online http://gme.grolier.com/article?assetid=0134445-0. (n.d.).
The particulars surrounding the relatively new cyber space attendance have been left vague, and there lacks clarification and guidelines. Clear boundaries and expectations have been omitted deliberately. The author uses this device to infuse a sense of individualism into the policy. For example, he does require his students to "fully participate in this class by making connections with other instructors and students through e-mail and threaded discussions on the Internet," [3, Course Description], but he does not stipulate the extent to which these connections be made. Some form of communication is considered valuable, but the amount has been left to student discretion.
The media play an indispensable role in modern life, and are considered amongst the most powerful and inaccurate sources of social information, education and entertainment. Our mass media is an electronic (TV, film, video, videogames, internet) visually dominated media with print (newspaper, magazine)...
Joseph STRAUBHAAR and Robert LaROSE (2002). Media Now. Communication Media in the Information Age. 3rd Edition. Belmont, Wadworth/Tompson Learning.
...think that non-traditional students are not a big part of the melting pot of college life, however according to the National Center for Education Statistics non-traditional students now comprise 73% of the student body in the US. Students are now in need of becoming more financially independent by getting part time jobs and this gives them a separate role from just being a standard college student. They acquire the rapid adaptation that other mature students possess.
It also created different category of students which he called Read-only participants. Prior to that discovery, “Beaudoin discovered that online students sometimes engage and learn more when not participating in online discussions. But sometimes poor communication hinders them from learning at all. Because of that they conducted a study in university of Pretoria on online master’s degree in computer integrated education program. Using “mixed methodology approach to investigate how online activity and discussion postings relate to learning and course completion. By investigating how student collaborative behavior and integration into the community relates to their academic success” Nigel, 2009). In lure to that he further discovered that there are different groups of students, who their attitude contributes to the downfall of online learning, inclusive; read only students group, non – discussion participant group. Out of point participant group, and internet blamers of wrong doing”, (Nigel, 2009). By analyzing these groups, Nigel was able to come up with an idea, on how to create communication trend between student and their instructors especially, the Read-only-participants. This he did to encourage the whole online students group to communicate the required number of online classroom postings, and submit high quality, thoughtful postings. He also created grade discussions and
Johnson, T. (2011). S.P.I.D.E.R. A strategy for evaluating websites. Library Media Connection, 29(6), 58-59. Retrieved from http://web.b.ebscohost.com.proxy.devry.edu/ehost/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?sid=a1fe208a-6fb8-4e68-8191-7ef041e2d483%40sessionmgr111&vid=25&hid=113
Forum- this is where the questions for the required posts for the class and the teacher are done
...ion and success. While much has been researched, the journey has only just begun. Very briefly I have highlighted a topic that has been and still could be researched with hundreds of different auxiliary issues stemming from it. Delving further into what student life departments do for student retention and success and their role in this process is a very important piece of this ever expanding puzzle. There is not a lot of literature or research on the topic right now and while this specific question is still a very broad topic, it can easily be narrowed down and sectioned off for more specific goals and research. What we need but do not have a whole lot of yet is a body of research that delves into the nature of institutional practices when it comes to student life departments, their theories and practices and the impact they have on student success and retention.
Much has changed in the years since the Colleges were established. Student demographics alone show a very different student profile today than that of yesteryear. A typical student is anything but typical - presenting with diverse and complex needs. This is confirmed by information contained in the 2009 Applicant Survey conducted by Academica Group and the MTCU Student Satisfaction Survey “60% of college students have high school or less, 17% report neither French nor English as their first language and 12% use “Special Needs/Disability Services” (Summers, 2012).
IUPUI is located in Indianapolis, Indiana, so it’s in-state, so it’s cheaper than the out of state schools, and it’s a public school so it will be cheaper than a private school like Notre Dame. With everything that’s required,and without scholarships it costs about $22,387 to go here for in state students, and around $43,937 to go here for out of state students. The housing there is usually around 2,500-3,000 dollars, unless you’re renting a room at an apartment near the school, then it might be around 4,000 a year. The place I would like to stay at IUPUI would be at the old hotel that they turned into housing for university students. It’s also a pretty decent sized school with about 22,525 undergraduate students and about 8,165 graduate students, so a total of around 30,690 students. This school really isn’t that old, in 1968 mayor Richard Lugar called for “a great university in Indianapolis”, so then they Established IUPUI in 1969. When the people created this school it merged Indiana University and Purdue University’s many programs and degrees into this one school. The first things merged into the school were, IU school of medicine, IU Robert H. McKinney School of law, IU school of dentistry, IU Herron school of art, IU Indianapolis extension, Purdue
Croteau, D., Hoynes, W., & Milan, S. (2012). Media/society (4th ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Of the undergraduate students who enrolled at Purdue, 67% of those received financial aid (College Navigator). In comparison, 71% of undergraduate students who had enrolled to IU Bloomington received financial aid (College Navigator). Another form of financial aid that were accepted by both colleges were loans and grants, these slightly differ in the percent of students who were shown using these. At Purdue, 3% of students met all of their needs using financial aid and loans (Big Future). However, at IU Bloomington 56% of students had grants and student loans (Indiana University). Overall, in this category, IU Bloomington is the best college choice because of the percentage of students who received financial
Any individual who has never taken an online course before can experience online learning through OpenLearn. There is a discussion board, tutoring assistant, journals, and other learning tools in each of the topic the person selects. Before any learner can access some of the contents such as the discussion board, the person must register for a login account. The authors note that one important aspect of OpenLearn is students get to learn while communicating and sharing ideas with others. This process allows them to be part of the learning communities. As Santos, McAndrew, and Godwin (2008) explains, “the idea behind the provision of a forum, attached to each unit, is to give the users the opportunity for social learning. They are able to start learning communities, if they wish,...
The Internet’s influence on our lives has spread throughout. According a 2009 US Census survey 74% of Americans use the internet and have access within their household.A number that has increased every year since 1990 and will sure grow in the future. In this survey they relieved that they did various activities on the internet including social media, (Facebook and Twitter) researching and reading news articles, watching YouTube videos, shopping and so much more all can be done with a computer or Internet enabled phone. With this ease of use and convenience it casts a shadow upon the future of printed and broadcast information. The Web’s instant and vast knowledge bank has changed ...