NYU's Steinhardt School To Launch Online Graduate Programs
New York University's Steinhardt
School of Culture, Education
and Human Development will launch its first three online graduate degree
programs in late 2016 and early 2017.
The NYU unit that focuses on the needs of children
and
families, particularly in urban areas, will begin its online graduate
program
by offering degrees in speech pathology, counseling and guidance and
occupational therapy.
While other schools in NYU already offer online
programs,
these will be firsts for Steinhardt, which will combine the program with
an
effort to use data and research to learn how effective online learning
can be.
"With technology providing so many new ways to
connect
students and educators, another question arises," said NYU Steinhardt
Dean
Dominic Brewer, "how to draw on our expertise to employ new technologies
while
preserving the qualities we most value in the classroom."
Once the courses receive approval from the
appropriate university
and accrediting bodies, 2U will manage the programs for the school,
supplying its software-as-a-service technology while Steinhardt will be
responsible for curriculum and course content, admissions and student
assessment.
Steinhardt officials said they expect to follow the
first
three online programs with more in teacher education and other
disciplines that
the school offers courses in, such as education, health, media and
performing
and visual arts.
"We see this partnership, which has had and will
continue to
have departmental and faculty involvement, as a model for embracing
digital
learning," Brewer added.
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