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Comparing Student Reflectiveness in Online Discussion Forums across Modes of Instruction and Levels of Courses

Fostering reflective deliberation in the online classroom ensures that students reach a high level of achievement in virtual courses. Student peer exchanges were evaluated on a collaborative web site structured around interactive weekly discussions offered across an online, face-to-face, and upper- and lower-division political science courses. Findings indicate that despite differences in mode and level […]

Strategic Tooling: Technology for Constructing a Community of Inquiry

The Community of Inquiry (CoI) framework describes online learning as a collaborative process supported by social presence, teaching presence, and cognitive presence, which work together to facilitate critical thinking and learning. The technology used in an online class can facilitate a CoI when its features support, rather than constrain, activities that promote these three elements. […]

Learning from decades of online distance education: MOOCs and the Community of Inquiry framework

Despite their growing popularity, there are many contradictory arguments between supporters and detractors of MOOCs. Nevertheless, the advent of mass-scale online courses is increasingly credited to have the potential to reshape higher education significantly over time, and recent research analyses how and in which ways such a potential can be leveraged. Aim of this conceptual […]

Teachers´ Acceptance of Educational Video Games: a Comprehensive Literature Review

Educational video games (EVGs) are receiving an increasing attention as an approach to teach new generations of learners, such as millennials, who make an intense use of video games, interactive technologies, and digital networks. Extant academic literature suggest several benefits of using EVGs including increasing students’ motivation towards learning and enhancing engagement in the learning […]

Q&A: Lake Area Technical Institute’s Dennis Heller Says Digital Divide Has Shrunk

Today’s community college students have access to more tech than before. Community colleges are proving to be a helpful puzzle piece in bridging the digital divide. EdTech spoke with Dennis Heller, the IT director of the Lake Area Technical Institute, which won the 2017 Aspen Prize for Community College Excellence and boasts one of the […]

Meet Ryan Roark: New Director of Distance Education and Outreach

Ryan Roark, the director of Distance Education and Outreach, began working at Eastern New Mexico University on July 10. “My main focus is on the quality of our distance education course offerings, specifically the Dual Enrollment program, Blackboard and our Mediasite classrooms,” Ryan said. Eastern New Mexico University

Research Highlights the Impact of Ghana’s Distance Learning Education Programme

New research to be published shows the extensive impact an innovative distance-learning programme is having on the educational attainment and life chances of marginalised girls and boys in Ghana. News Ghana

The New, New Education

Cathy Davidson’s new book is a manifesto on teaching students — and institutions — how to survive and thrive in the digital age. Inside Higher Ed

Acceleration: A Degree-Completion Strategy for Online Adult Students

According to the American Association of Community Colleges, adult students accounted for 63 percent of community college enrollments in 2016.1 Because adult students commonly juggle college against work and family obligations, community colleges strive to develop alternative strategies and technologies to meet their needs. One of the most universally employed technologies for adult student education […]

Download Report: Most Faculty Say Technology Has Made Their Jobs Easie

Our [Campus Technology] 2017 Teaching with Technology Survey found that faculty have a positive outlook about technology’s impact on their work, teaching effectiveness, student learning and more. Campus Technology