Should you build your own LMS?
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Bennet, Rubio Propose Alternative to Accreditation that Shifts Focus to Student Success
Bipartisan Bill Creates Pilot Program for Alternative Accreditation Process Expands Programs Eligible to Receive Federal Student Aid Michael F. Bennet, United States Senator, Colorado
The Pulse: Michelle Weise on Disruptive Innovation
This month’s edition of the “Pulse” podcast features an interview on a topic that is generating significant buzz: disruptive innovation in higher education. In the podcast, host Rodney Murray speaks with Michelle R. Weise, executive director of the Sandbox ColLABorative, strategy and innovation arm of Southern New Hampshire University. Weise is a former senior research […]
Libraries at the Crossroads
The public is interested in new services and thinks libraries are important to communities Pew Research Center
Documenting Collective Development in Online Settings
In this paper the authors explored the question of collective understanding in online mathematics education settings and presented a brief overview of traditional methods for documenting norms and collective mathematical practices. A method for documenting collective development was proposed that builds on existing methods and frameworks yet is sensitive to the particularities of interaction in […]
An Online Adult-Learner Focused Program: An Assessment of Effectiveness
The landscape of higher education has significantly changed. Methods of instructional delivery, student profiles and degree offerings have transformed traditional brick and mortar institutions. Distance educational courses and programs, either fully online or hybrid, have been a major contributing factor in this shift. While a high percentage of students take classes online, adult learners particularly […]
MOOCs: Branding, Enrollment, and Multiple Measures of Success
KSU redefined the MOOC value proposition through collaboration of university leadership and faculty. The new proposition shifts measures of success beyond just course completion to include measures that benefit students, faculty, and the institution. Students benefitted through access to open educational resources, the acquisition of professional learning units at no cost, and the potential of […]
Wikipedia Writing as Praxis: Computer-mediated Socialization of Second-language Writers
It is often observed that the globalization of social media has opened up new opportunities for informal intercultural communication and foreign language learning. This study aims to go beyond this general observation through a case study that explores how discourse analysis tools might be used to uncover evidence of language and intercultural learning in comments […]
Digital Mindsets: Teachers’ Technology Use in Personal Life and Teaching
Over the last few years there have been important calls for new literacies to become an integral part of language education. Yet traditional approaches to technology continue to persist in many contexts. Although the role of teachers in this problem has been acknowledged, little is known about how teachers’ everyday digital literacy practices influence teaching […]
Orchestration in learning technology research: evaluation of a conceptual framework
The term ‘orchestrating learning’ is being used increasingly often, referring to the coordination activities performed while applying learning technologies to authentic settings. However, there is little consensus about how this notion should be conceptualised, and what aspects it entails. In this paper, a conceptual framework for orchestration-related research is evaluated by an international panel of […]