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Market-leading LMS and World’s Leading Learning Companies Bring Seamless Transition Between Pearson’s MyLab & Mastering and Blackboard Learn to Global Markets Nov 29, 2012 WASHINGTON, Nov. 29, 2012 /PRNewswire/ — Blackboard Inc. and Pearson have expanded the availability of an integration for Pearson’s leading learning solution – MyLab & Mastering – with Blackboard Learn™, the market-leading […]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 29, 2012 Contact: Timothy Willard (202) 955-6126 Email: Willard@chea.org (Washington, DC) –The Council for Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA) has issued the CHEA Initiative Final Report, drawn from the CHEA Initiative’s four-year national conversation on the future of accreditation. “The CHEA Initiative was launched in 2008, commencing an unprecedented national discussion of […]
Pearson is the world’s largest book publisher. Now it wants to be a one-stop shop for digital education. MIT Technology Review Full Article
How can we use digital media so that they help us become empowered participants rather than passive consumers? In his book Net Smart, Howard Rheingold shows how to use social media intelligently, humanely, and, above all, mindfully. Download the table of contents (PDF) here. Mindful use of digital media means thinking about what we are […]
This study stemmed from a concern of the perceived decline in students’ reading motivation after the early years of schooling. This research investigated the effectiveness of online eBooks on eight grade 1 students’ reading motivation. Eight students were given ten 25-minute sessions with the software programs over 15 weeks. Qualitative data were collected from students, […]
This research reports a two-phase descriptive study of young children’s engagement with ebooks conducted in Head Start classrooms. Phase 1 focused on the development of a typology as an analytic framework for observing engagement with ebooks in different formats (shared book; independent book browsing) and across devices (stationary touch screen; handhelds). Converging extant research categories […]
By Dr. Farhad (Fred) Saba Founder and Editor, Distance-Educator.com Education at all levels and institutions, including the training functions of most corporations and government agencies, are facing unprecedented challenges in huge proportions as the 21st century unfolds. At the turn of the century, Houghton, and Sheehan (2000) posited and major international organizations, such as World […]
Pearson is the world’s largest book publisher. Now it wants to be a one-stop shop for digital education. MIT Technology Review Full Article
Sanjay Sarma, the Fred Fort Flowers and Daniel Fort Flowers Professor of Mechanical Engineering, has been appointed MIT’s first director of digital learning, effective immediately. President L. Rafael Reif announced Sarma’s appointment today in an e-mail message to the MIT community. MIT Press Release
(Washington, DC) –The Council for Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA) and the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) have released an advisory statement on Accreditation and Academic Freedom. The Council for Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA) Press Release