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Cognitive presence through social and teaching presence in communities of inquiry: A correlational–predictive study

This study focuses on the relationships established between the elements that compose the community of inquiry (CoI): cognitive, social, and teaching presence. Using three questionnaires, we analyse the students’ perception of synchronous and asynchronous virtual in text-based communication (chats, forums and emails). Starting from the high correlations found between the three elements, we perform a […]

Emerging technologies boost academic learning

Joyce Seitzinger is a digital learning expert whose background is as varied as her work as an education technologist. Although born in the Netherlands where she graduated with a degree in Celtic studies, she has lived in Germany, Ireland and Egypt, and then in 2006 she moved to the other side of the world to […]

New Book: Technology and Testing

This comprehensive new volume brings together leading experts on the issues posed by technological applications in testing, with chapters on game-based assessment, testing with simulations, video assessment, computerized test development, large-scale test delivery, model choice, validity, and error issues. Including an overview of existing literature and ground-breaking research, each chapter considers the technological, practical, and […]

A Market Enabled

The online program management space is booming. Eduventures, a Boston-based higher education research firm, estimates the market is worth $1.1 billion. The firm this spring surveyed academic leaders at more than 175 colleges and universities to form a picture of the companies known as online program management (OPM) providers, or enablers. Inside Higher Ed

The Digital Humanities Are Alive and Well and Blooming: Now What?

With the field of digital humanities hitting its stride, higher education institutions need strong, end-to-end, coordinated strategies for managing digital creation. EDUCAUSE

Mobile Journaling App Helps Students Document Field Learning

Tying together timelines, note-taking, geolocation and multimedia, The Traveler provides a cutting-edge mobile journaling experience for students working in the field, starting with the ability to record and visualize their pathways. Campus Technology

Keeping Up With Competency

Roughly 600 colleges are in the design phase for a new competency-based education program, are actively creating one or already have a program in place. That’s up from an estimated 52 institutions last year. Inside Higher Ed

Examining the Effect of Academic Procrastination on Achievement Using LMS Data in e-Learning

This study aimed to investigate the effect of academic procrastination on e-learning course achievement. Because all of the interactions among students, instructors, and contents in an e-learning environment were automatically recorded in a learning management system (LMS), procrastination such as the delays in weekly scheduled learning and late submission of assignments could be identified from […]

Pinterest as a Teaching Tool

This redesigned student affairs course is taught at the end of the second year in a two-year masters-level program. Students graduating from the program acquire various student affairs professional positions throughout institutions of higher education including residence life, academic advising, student activities and leadership, judicial, campus recreation, and admissions staff positions. The course focuses on […]

Echoes from the past: Podcasting in the African American studies classroom

Podcasting has been used to deliver lectures in traditional face-to-face, hybrid, and distance-learning classrooms. However, an increasing amount of research has explored the educational benefits of student-created podcasts. Jarvis and Dickie (2010) have noted that podcasting can allow access to deeper modes of learning. In addition to digital literacy skills, podcasting has been shown to […]