The Macworld Recap: A deep dive into what iPhone SE and iPad Pro 9.7-inch really mean
It’s Macworld’s first video recap! Susie Ochs, Oscar Raymundo and Jon Phillips riff on the deeper significance of Apple’s “Loop You In” announcements. MacWorld
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Kennesaw State University Selects Jubi to Power New Digital Badge in Understanding Business Innovation Learning Platform for Ongoing Professional Development
The professional development experts at Kennesaw State University knew they needed a learning platform that rivaled their innovative approach to eLearning. They found it in Jubi, a new solution in the eLearning ecosystem, providing a “Learn-Do-Inspire” architecture that motivates professional development students to learn and then apply what they’ve learned. PRWeb
Theology Schools, Facing Lean Times, Look to One Another and the Web
CLAREMONT, Calif. — If you are looking for a manicured lawn and a gracious quadrangle — Gothic maybe, or redbrick with shutters on the windows — you will be disappointed. The New York Time
Education and the Business of Information Access
The evolution of personalized information access in higher education — the way a university’s constituents access information and services relevant to their education or pertinent to business with their institution — is, of course, now a story measured in decades. Given how quickly technology shifts and turns today, it’s of great value to consult with […]
Issues in Distance Education
Current issue of New Directions for Higher Education (Number 173 Spring 2016) Edited by Maureen Snow Andrade In this environment of disruptive technological change, higher education institutions must determine whether they will develop and offer technology-supported, hybrid, or online courses and degrees, which courses and degrees, how many, for whom, and for what purpose. They […]
Download Report: Public Predictions for the Future of Workforce Automation
A majority of Americans predict that within 50 years, robots and computers will do much of the work currently done by humans – but few workers expect their own jobs or professions to experience substantial impacts Pew Research Center
Preservice Teachers’ Perception and Use of Personal Learning Environments (PLEs)
Personal learning environments (PLEs) are Web 2.0 tools and services by which users’ access, construct, manage, and share educational contents in order to meet their learning needs. These environments enable users to manage their learning according to their own personal preferences. They further promote socialization and collaboration with their broad user networks and interaction facilities. […]
Learners’ Interpersonal Beliefs and Generated Feedback in an Online Role-Playing Peer- Feedback Activity: An Exploratory Study
Peer feedback affords interaction and critical thinking opportunities for learners in online courses. However, various factors prevent learners from taking advantage of these promising benefits. This study explored learners’ perceptions of the interpersonal factors in a role-playing peer-feedback activity, and examined the types of peer feedback that learners generated when playing a role. Participants were […]
Help at 3:00 AM! Providing 24/7 Timely Support to Online Students via a Virtual Assistant
With a dearth of research on human-robot interaction in education and relatively high non-completion rates of online students, this study was conducted to determine the feasibility of using a virtual assistant (VA) to respond to questions and concerns of students and provide 24/7 online course content support. During a 16 week-long academic semester, four hundred […]
Faculty Personality: A Factor of Student Retention
The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between student retention and faculty personality as it was hypothesized that faculty personality has an effect on student retention. The methodology adopted for this study was quantitative and in two parts 1) using linear regression models to examine the impact or causality of faculty personality […]