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There are many strategies for estimating the effectiveness of instruction. Typically, most methods are based on the student evaluation. Recently a more standardized approach, Quality Matters (QM), has been developed that uses an objectives-based strategy. QM, however, does not account for the learning process, nor for the value and worth of the learning experience. Learning […]
Increased demands in professional expectations have required online faculty to learn how to balance multiple roles in an open-ended, changing, and relatively unstructured job. In this paper, we argue that being strategic about one’s balance of the various facets of online teaching will improve one’s teaching efficiency and effectiveness. We discuss the balancing issues associated […]
Comcast announced it will offer two-gigabit-per-second residential Internet service in Atlanta next month, and will expand it to 18 million homes by the end of the year. The Christian Science Monitor
NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. — Before Betsy Chao, a senior here at Rutgers University, could take midterm exams in her online courses this semester, her instructors sent emails directing students to download Proctortrack, a new anti-cheating technology. The New York Times
Undergraduate students launch TEDx on campus to discuss blending science with art–and why it’s important. With growing pressure for students to focus on STEM, pioneering undergraduate students from one university recently decided to focus not just on science, but on a “coalescence” of science and art–a topic so critical, said the students, that it warranted […]
Since “Year of the MOOC” became a catchphrase in 2012, massive open online courses have had their fans and detractors. Some have claimed that online learning is a “disruptive revolution” and a harbinger of the end of residential colleges, while others have called MOOCs “mere marketing” at best or an abject failure at worst, singling […]
This month’s edition of our podcast “The Pulse” explores the question: Should everyone learn to code? Rodney B. Murray, host of “The Pulse,” answers in the affirmative. He explains why, discusses how he learned to code and offers advice on the many ways for others to learn. “The Pulse” is Inside Higher Ed‘s monthly technology podcast, produced […]
Innovative faculty are running MOOCs and flipped-format on-campus courses on the same schedule and having the two groups interact online — with interesting results. Campus Technology
UDEEEWANA –United Distance Education For Eastern Europe, Western Asia, Northern Africa- is suggested as a new association for the region Eastern Europe, Scandinavia, Baltic, Turkic Republics, Caucasians, Middle East, Arab Peninsula and North Africa which are included the countries such as Afghanistan, Algeria, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Egypt, Estonia, Finland, Greece, Georgia, Jordan, Hungary, Iraq, […]
While students do learn real-world knowledge and skills in virtual worlds, educators have yet to adequately theorise how students’ virtual world experiences bring about this learning. This paper critically reviewed theories currently used to underpin empirical work in virtual worlds for education. In particular, it evaluated how applicable these theories’ learning mechanisms are to virtual […]