Scaling Up With Adaptive Learning
Two universities share how they are using adaptive courseware to increase retention and graduation rates — and the challenges they have run into along the way. Campus Technology
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The Web as a Creative Thinking Partner
The web forever changes how and when information is accessed and mobilized for use. Ubiquitous mobile devices provide a near infinite database of both hard and soft resources for consumption in schools, at work, and beyond. Anyone with basic search skills can find the same information as their fellow students and workplace colleagues. eLearn Magazine
Exploring the Relationship Between Student Engagement, Twitter, and a Learning Management System: A Study of Undergraduate Marketing Students
Because student engagement is believed to be a predictor of academic achievement, there is significant interest in discovering methods that will improve and increase student engagement at all levels of education. This study investigated the relationship between digital and social media usage and student engagement. In particular, this study sought to investigate how adding (1) […]
3 Benefits of Online Learning for Military Spouses
If you are a military spouse, you probably know what it feels like to leave behind the family you love, friends you cherish and familiar places you used to call home. A military spouse’s role may be overlooked, but the military lifestyle doesn’t have to be an obstacle to some of the same opportunities civilians […]
14 hot higher ed trends for 2017
Educators and tech leaders look back on 2016; predict where higher ed trends in teaching and learning will head this new year. eCampus News
DOWNLOD CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS: Forging new pathways of research and innovation in open and distance learning Reaching from the roots
Distance education is the fastest-growing mode of both formal and informal teaching, training, and learning. It is multi-faceted in nature, encompassing e-learning and mobile learning, as well as immersive learning environments. Research questions should be posed within a theoretical framework and, most commonly, quality research is embedded within a holistic structure of research areas within […]
Collaborative Online Inquiry: Exploring Students’ Skills in Locating, Reading, and Communicating Information
This study examines third, fourth, and fifth grade students’ reasoning that was captured as they engaged collaboratively in a teacher designed inquiry task. This task focused on choosing eco-friendly toys for a fictitious local toy store. Results indicated that students were more expressive with reasoning when they shared their ideas orally, but were less apt […]
Giving Back: Exploring Service-Learning in an Online Learning Environment
Service-Learning (SL) as an instructional method is growing in popularity for giving back to the community while connecting the experience to course content. However, little has been published on using SL for online business students. This study highlights an exploratory mixed-methods, multiple case study of an online business leadership and ethics course utilizing SL as […]
Evaluation of Virtual Objects: Contributions for the Learning Process
The constant technological development in education, and the potentiality of the resources offered by Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs), are challenges faced by teaching institutions in Brazil, especially by those institutions, which by the very nature of their services intend to provide distance education courses. In such a scene, one sees the use of technology […]
Faculty Members’ Instructional Priorities for Adopting OER
This study aimed to investigate and classify faculty members’ instructional priorities for adopting OER. In-depth interview data were collected from 10 faculty members from different regions and analyzed with NVivo 10. The original supposition was that the well-established instructional priorities, effectiveness, efficiency, and appeal would apply. However, it was found that in adopting OER, these […]