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Three Corporate Voices: Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

The EDUCAUSE Enterprise IT Program asked three corporate members to share their advice about the ways AI and machine learning fit with higher education, as well as ethical considerations when using these technologies. EDUCAUSE Review

How is Gen Z impacted by online learning?

A university professor looks into how remote and online learning is impacting Gen Z–research that has implications for teaching during COVID-19 eCampus News

Free WiFi for Online Learning During COVID-19

While EducationSuperHighway recently reported that the classroom connectivity gap was “now closed,” with 99 percent of schools on fiber, that didn’t take into account that school would move home in a time of coronavirus. The latest reporting by the Federal Communications Commission, found that the number of people lacking a connection of at least 25 […]

OSU offers virtual gardening, chicken brooding classes during lockdown

As people work from home during the COVID-19 pandemic and spend more time thinking about their personal safety and security, home gardening has grown in popularity, said Timothy McDermott, an extension educator in agriculture and natural resources at The Ohio State University. edscoop

ProctorU Proposes Student Bill of Rights for Remote Learning

Doing school work remotely presents some unique challenges. For one, teachers can’t necessarily see how a student is accomplishing class work and may therefore make faulty assumptions about how it was done; and two, the education technology that facilitates online learning collects data on the student and the interactions, frequently without the student even knowing, […]

Examining How Online Professional Development Impacts Teachers’ Beliefs About Teaching Statistics

With online learning becoming a more viable option for teachers to develop their expertise, our report shares one such effort focused on improving the teaching of statistics. We share design principles and learning opportunities in an online course developed specifically to serve as a wide-scale online professional development opportunity for educators, thus deemed as a […]

Facilitation Matters: Instructor Perception of Helpfulness of Facilitation Strategies in Online Courses

Online course facilitation is critical to the success of online courses. Instructors use various facilitation strategies in online courses to engage students. One hundred instructors were surveyed on their perception of helpfulness of twelve different facilitation strategies used in online courses to enhance instructor presence, instructor connection, engagement and learning. Instructors’ timely response to questions […]

Librarian Integrated Workflows to Enhance Course Design & Development

As the modes of course development in universities shift to be more team-based, librarians are now contributing core components of course development operations.  This article outlines the ways that librarians at Capella University have been integrated systematically into course development.  Adding librarians to specific points throughout the course development process has streamlined processes, saved materials […]

Exploring Factors that Impact Faculty Decisions to Teach Languages Online: Is It Worth the Individual Return on Investment?

Over the past decade, scholars have explored factors that motivate or impede faculty decisions to teach online in the broader context of higher education (Mitchell & Geva-May, 2009; Shea, Pickett, & Li, 2005; Tabata & Johnsrud, 2008; Wright, 2014; Zhen, Garthwait, & Pratt, 2008). However, comparable research in specific, academic disciplines is limited, especially as […]

Immersion, interaction, and experience-oriented learning: Bringing virtual reality into FL learning

Virtual reality (VR) is not only attracting the attention of the information and computer technology (ICT) industry (Shirer & Torchia, 2017), especially in the production of consumer VR hardware, but also that of educators. Three years in a row, the Horizon Reports of 2016, 2017, and 2018 have mentioned that VR, or mixed reality, is […]