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Mixed Reality | Product Spotlight
It was a typical London bus shelter, except that where a typical digital six-sheet poster would have been, commuters instead looked out onto Oxford Street, with its red double-deckers and daily comings and goings. And then the unbelievable began to happen. Library Journal
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With many thanks for your interest in Distance-Educator.com, and with this issue we conclude our eNewsletter publication for 2017. We will continue to update our website with noteworthy news and information, and we hope you visit Distance-Educator.com frequently. We will resume the publication of the eNewsletter in the second week of 2018. With Best Wishes for a […]
Download Report: Public Comments to the Federal Communications Commission About Net Neutrality Contain Many Inaccuracies and Duplicates
Public Comments to the Federal Communications Commission About Net Neutrality Contain Many Inaccuracies and Duplicates For the second time in less than four years, the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is considering regulations regarding net neutrality – the principle that internet service providers must treat all data the same, regardless of the origin or purpose […]
The ecology of the open practitioner: a conceptual framework for open research
Open Educational Practices (OEP) have gained traction internationally over the last fifteen years, with individuals, institutions, and governments increasingly interested in the affordances of openness. Whilst initiatives, policies, and support mechanisms are evident, there is an ever-present danger of localised contexts being unintentionally unrecognised, which has a negative effect on mainstreaming the practice sustainably. This […]
Fractal: an educational model for the convergence of formal and non-formal education
For the last two decades, different authors have mentioned the need to have new pedagogies that respond better to current times, which are surrounded by a complex set of issues such as mobility, interculturality, curricular flexibility, accreditation and academic coverage. Fractal is an educational model proposal for online learning that is formed by four basic […]
Continuous Improvement in Online Education: Documenting Teaching Effectiveness in the Online Environment Through Observations
Teaching observations are commonly used among educators to document and improve teaching effectiveness. Unfortunately, the necessary protocols and supporting infrastructure are not consistently available for faculty who teach online. This paper presents a brief literature review and reflective narratives of educators representing online education at multiple organization levels within a comprehensive university. Each vignette presents […]
Care, Communication, Support: Core for Designing Meaningful Online Collaborative Learning
The purpose of this study was to identify emergent themes regarding higher education instructors’ perceptions concerning the provision of collaborative learning activities and opportunities in their online classroom. Through semi-structured interviews, instructors voiced their teaching experiences and reported specifically about the online collaborative opportunities offered in their online classrooms. A multi-phase coding process was used […]
Online collaborative learning activities: The perspectives of minority graduate students
This exploratory study examined the perspectives of minority graduate students toward online collaborative learning activities. The participants were twenty graduate minority students (15 African Americans, five Hispanics, and five international students from Africa) in online graduate programs in instructional technology education in in the Northeastern United States. A qualitative study was conducted semi-structured interviews, focus […]
How the net neutrality vote could impact colleges, students
Education leaders, librarians closely watching upcoming FCC vote on net neutrality and how it could impact learning. eCampus News