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Download Report: Making Digital Learning Work

With digital education on the rise, the Action Lab at Arizona State University and the Boston Consulting Group worked with six leading universities and community colleges that have a strong track record of delivering digital learning to large socioeconomically diverse student populations. Supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the resulting Making Digital Learning […]

Social Media Use in 2018

A majority of Americans use Facebook and YouTube, but young adults are especially heavy users of Snapchat and Instagram Pew Research Center

Will AI be a bane or boon for education?

K-12 and higher ed need to rethink their structures to prepare for the arrival of artificial intelligence in education, experts say. edscoop  

NetDragon Got a Deal on Edmondo. Christopher Nyren Saw It Coming.

Last week, Edmondo was acquired by the Chinese gaming company NetDragon for $137.5 million. The deal to acquire the K-12 student and teacher social platform prompted a good deal of speculation. But the biggest, takeaway considering Edmondo’s past rounds of investment, is that NetDragon got a deal. ELEARNING INSIDE NEWS  

Consider an Interdisciplinary Online Bachelor’s Degree

Online degrees like integrated studies, liberal arts and interdisciplinary social sciences can be good options for working adults. U. S. News & World Report

Download Report: Projections of Education Statistics to 2026

Projections of Education Statistics to 2026 is the 45th in a series of publications initiated in 1964. This publication provides national-level data on enrollment, teachers, high school graduates, and expenditures at the elementary and secondary level, and enrollment and degrees at the postsecondary level for the past 15 years and projections to the year 2026. […]

Download Report: Student Access to Digital Learning Resources Outside of the Classroom

Student Access to Digital Learning Resources Outside of the Classroom Student Access to Digital Learning Resources Outside of the Classroom draws upon nationally representative data sources, existing research, and relevant state and local intervention efforts to examine the five research areas designated in the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) and to provide a comprehensive picture […]

Engagement Matters: Student Perceptions on the Importance of Engagement Strategies in the Online Learning

Student engagement increases student satisfaction, enhances student motivation to learn, reduces the sense of isolation, and improves student performance in online courses. This survey-based research study examines student perception on various engagement strategies used in online courses based on Moore’s interaction framework. One hundred and fifty five students completed a 38-item survey on learner-to-learner, learner-to-instructor, […]

An Online Engagement Framework for Higher Education

Student engagement is understood to be an important benchmark and indicator of the quality of the student experience for higher education; yet the term engagement continues to be elusive to define and it is interpreted in different ways in the literature. This paper firstly presents a short review of the literature regarding online engagement in […]

Creating Successful Professional Development Activities for Online Faculty: A Reorganized Framework

In the online environment, faculty engagement in the form of professional development takes on a new significance. Online programs hold strategic importance and growth opportunities for institutions, and therefore universities need faculty members who are engaged and effectively teaching in the online environment (Allen & Seaman, 2013, 2016; Dennis, 2013).  Faculty professional development provides a […]