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Perceptions of Online Learning Spaces and Their Incorporation in Mathematics Teacher Education

While digital environments can offer convenient, viable options for preservice and inservice teachers to engage in or continue their studies, little is known about teachers’ experiences with and perceptions of various existing online learning spaces. This paper describes an initial investigation using data from a group of preservice and in-service mathematics teachers who interacted by […]

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Producing Tutorials With Digital Professionals: Primary Sources, Pirates, and Partners

Once accepted as strictly functional, low-key, step-by-step introductions to services, resources, and how to search databases, library tutorials are now branching out into innovative multi-media Web-based presentations to appeal to a wide audience.  Librarians and their instructional materials are taking advantage of an increasingly expanding toolbox of modern technologies and pedagogical techniques to capture the […]

Use of social networking sites: Facebook group as a learning management system

Social networking sites (SNSs) are becoming popular day by day in academia as well as in business organizations around the world. Facebook as the largest and fastest networking sites, is one of the important SNSs that can play an important role in different academic disciplines. The aim of this study is to investigate the use […]

Leveraging teamwork by Google+ in a lifelong learning perspective

The current affordances of ubiquitous global connections, of a large number of open resources, and of social and professional networks may boost innovation in open-minded organisations through their personnel’s empowerment. Lifelong and ubiquitous learning, cloud computing and smart working frameworks are the pillars of the change that is replacing the traditional work model and transforming […]

Making the most of mobility: virtual mentoring and education practitioner professional development

Learning provision, including professional learning, needs to embrace mobility (of knowledge, cultures and contexts – physical and cerebral) to enable education practitioners to interact locally and globally, engage with new literacies, access rich contexts, and to question, co-construct and collaborate. Virtual mentoring, also known as distance, remote, tele-, cyber- and eMentoring, offers a level of […]

DEAC Executive Director Elected to WCET Sterring Committee

The Distance Education Accreditation Commission is pleased to announce that Dr Leah Matthews, DEAC’s Executive Director, has been elected to a three-year term as a member of the WICHE Cooperative for Educational Technologies (WCET) Steering Committee. The Distance Education Accreditation Commission

The Use of Learning Contracts to Promote Student Success in Online Doctoral Programs

This quantitative study provides evidence of the benefits of learning contracts in online higher education. In this study, data were gathered from doctoral students who had completed all course work and comprehensive exams, but failed to make expected progress on dissertation. The students were given the opportunity to participate in a voluntary program requiring the […]

Don’t Tell the Faculty: Administrators’ Secrets to Evaluating Online Teaching

Administrators at many colleges and universities have had online courses at their institutions for many years, now. One of the hidden challenges about online courses is that they tend to be observed and evaluated far less frequently than their face-to-face course counterparts. This is party due to the fact that many of us administrators today […]

SETDA Publishes Open Educational Resources in Action: Implementation Case Studies

CONTACT: Lan Neugent Interim Executive Director 202-715-6636 x706 lneugent@setda.org FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE SETDA Publishes Open Educational Resources in Action: Implementation Case Studies Online Case Studies Highlight the Implementation of OER in Schools August 26, 2015 (Washington, D.C.) – SETDA, the principal membership association of U.S. state and territorial digital learning leaders, recently published OER in Action: […]

Personalization of Learning: Lessons from RTT-D Winners

While most public schools embody a one-size-fits-all approach to education [1], the theory of personalized learning purports students ought to be “active and responsible co-authors of their educational script” [2]. eLearn Magazine