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Faculty Development and the ID2ID Program

Instructional designers have a unique opportunity to dive into the intersection between their discipline and faculty development in order to make significant contributions to teaching and learning at their institutions. EDUCAUSE Review

To balance innovation with protecting students, focus on incentives

Online education is growing fast—but it’s hampered by clunky regulations and outdated definitions. Modernizing regulation is, in part, about stripping away burdensome regulation, but Congress also must focus on aligning institutional incentives with student outcomes eCampus News

Industry News: Adobe, Apple, Blackboard, D2L

Adobe: Simple But Powerful Creativity, Presentation, and Storytelling Tools FREE for Teachers and Students Apple: Apple brings Everyone Can Code to schools serving blind and deaf students nationwide Blackboard: Blackboard Launches New Website Accessibility Solution Desire2Learn: D2L Launches Emerald Release — the next Generation of Brightspace

D2L Launches Emerald Release — the next Generation of Brightspace

Today, D2L launches its Emerald Release — the newest version of its Brightspace LMS — which provides an intuitive social and mobile-friendly teaching and learning experience for people around the world. Social features that engage and delight users include the Activity Feed, which lets you embed social content like TedEx or YouTube videos and images […]

Rice to Work with 2U on Launch of Online Business ‘Short Courses’

Less than a year after Rice University in Houston announced plans to introduce a new online master of business administration with program management company 2U, the institution said it would work with the company to deliver master’s-level “online short courses” in business and management as well. Campus Technology 

Blackboard Launches New Website Accessibility Solution

WASHINGTON, May 17, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — Building on its longstanding commitment to accessibility, Blackboard Inc. today announced the launch of Blackboard Ally for Web, leveraging the company’s groundbreaking technology to support institutions and organizations looking to improve the accessibility of their public-facing websites. Currently being implemented by hundreds of institutions, Blackboard Ally first launched last year […]

Apple brings Everyone Can Code to schools serving blind and deaf students nationwide

Apple is teaming up with leading educators for blind and deaf communities across the US to bring accessible coding to their schools. Beginning this fall, schools supporting students with vision, hearing or other assistive needs will start teaching the Everyone Can Code curricula for Swift, Apple’s powerful and intuitive programming language. Apple

Simple But Powerful Creativity, Presentation, and Storytelling Tools FREE for Teachers and Students

If you’re looking to create narrated videos, printed materials, graphics, or writing assignments that students can quickly and easily turn in, you want Spark. Adobe Spark

With or without net neutrality, the internet will still thrive says Stanford scholar

Following the U.S. Senate vote to restore net neutrality regulations, Stanford scholar Gregory Rosston offers his perspective about the future of the internet. In December 2017, the FCC repealed “Title II” regulations that classified the internet as a public utility. Under these rules, internet service providers (ISPs) were required to treat all data equally and […]

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Evaluating theImpact of Engaged Philosophy in the Online Classroom: Lessons Learned As an Oregon State Ecampus Research Fellow, I designed and initiated a research study thDowat aimed to: 1) investigate tools and techniques for engaged, experiential online learning with undergraduate philosophy students and 2) propose discipline- specific criteria for evaluating the impact of these pedagogical […]