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The research question for this study was: ‘Can the provision of online resources help to engage and motivate students to become self-directed learners?’ This study presents the results of an action research project to answer this question for a postgraduate module at a research-intensive university in the United Kingdom. The analysis of results from the […]
International data sets show U.S. Millennials hit global bottoms for skills in literacy, numeracy and technology problem-solving. eCampus News
A global, accredited, online university that offers free tuition will launch an MBA degree this year and has begun taking applications. Financial Review
The University of Massachusetts’ online consortium, UMassOnline, has launched its first non-credit badge program. Campus Technology
WASHINGTON — Howard University said Wednesday that it would join other broadcasters in taking part in a Federal Communications Commission auction that could entail selling the rights to the spectrum on which it broadcasts the nation’s only black-owned public television station. The New York Times
After too many years watching students struggle with the transition to college, mobile application developers at the University of San Diego are excited to watch this year’s freshmen get organized and get ahead with a highly customized USD personal assistant mobile application. CT asked USD Vice Provost and CIO Christopher W. Wessells about the USD […]
The purpose of this report is to present updated and additional results from the U.S. PIAAC household data collection, based on data collected in 2012 and 2014. PIAAC is an international large-scale study of adult skills and life experience focusing on education and employment that was developed and organized by the Organization for Economic Cooperation […]
All university educators perform design work as they prepare and plan learning experiences for their students. How such design work is undertaken, conceptualised, and optimally supported is the focus of ongoing research for the authors. The purpose of this article is to present the results of a research study that sought to gain a richer […]
The aim of the current study is to develop an adapted version of User Experience Questionnaire (UEQ) and evaluate a learning management system. Although there is a growing interest on User Experience, there are still limited resources (i.e. measurement tools or questionnaires) available to measure user experience of any products, especially learning management systems. Two […]
The researchers of this study investigated the participants’ (N = 177) use of a self-evaluation tool employed at the end of an online undergraduate music course that fulfilled the Texas general education requirement for the creative arts. Participants’ use of the two aspects of the tool correlated at r = .5548 – interpreted as a […]