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Register Today– Proven Strategies to Enhance Your Knowledge, Skill, and Credibility in Teaching Online

The Professional Certificate in Online Education (PCOE) will help you apply proven strategies to enhance your knowledge, skill, and credibility in teaching online. Key topics: Contextual factors of online education Essential teaching and learning principles for online environments Effects of technology on education at a distance Writing learning objectives, creating online activities and designing online […]

Knowledge Enriched Learning by Converging Knowledge Object & Learning Object

The most important dimension of learning is the content, and an LMS suffices this to a certain extent. The present day LMS are designed to primarily address issues like ease of use, search, content and performance. Many surveys had been conducted to identify the essential features required for the improvement of LMS, which includes flexibility […]

Examining Mathematics Teacher Educators’ Emerging Practices in Online Environments

Teacher professional development and course work using asynchronous online environments seems promising, yet little is known about how mathematics teacher educators (MTEs) develop practices for such spaces. Research has shown that views of learning impact design of online learning spaces, enabling and constraining particular student action. More remains to be examined about the steps being […]

A Model of Leadership in Integrating Educational Technology in Higher Education

The potential impacts and implications of technology on the professional lives of instructors in higher education, and the role of leadership in integrating educational technology, present a variety of complexities and challenges. The purpose of this paper is to identify the reasons why faculty members are not fully embracing technology and what leadership exists in […]

Social Network Analysis of Undergraduate Education Student Interaction in Online Peer Mentoring Settings

This study uses social network analysis to examine the patterns of student interactions in online peer mentoring sites within an undergraduate teacher education program. The peer mentoring sites were developed to provide both newcomers and more experienced peers the opportunity to discuss, share, and learn both from and with one another. The study demonstrated that […]

Classrooms Without Walls: A Comparison of Instructor Performance in online Courses Differing in Class Size

It is difficult to deny that online learning has had steady growth in recent years. A benefit to any institution implementing online courses is not needing a physical space for a group of students. In an online classroom, there are no physical barriers limiting the number of desks that can be placed in the classroom. […]

Homeschooling Only Deepens Silicon Valley’s Rift With the Rest of Us

Silicon Valley is a lot of things. An innovation engine. A money-making machine. A geek magnet. It’s also a world apart. This week, WIRED’s Jason Tanz published a feature story on techie homeschoolers alienated by traditional schools and in some cases by the idea of schooling itself. WIRED

Download Report: Online Enrollment Growth Slows, But Still Outpaces Brick-and-Mortar

The number of higher education students taking at least one online course in 2014 is up 3.7 percent over the previous year — the slowest rate of increase in over a decade, according to a new survey from the Babson Survey Research Group co-sponsored by the Online Learning Consortium (OLC), Pearson and Tyton Partners. Campus […]

How Digital Asset Management Makes Social Media More Effective at Baylor

Baylor University in Waco, TX, is the sixth most influential college on Instagram, according to College Atlas, and the university attributes this success to its digital asset management (DAM) solution. The technology enables Baylor staff to post professional photos to social media outlets within seconds, so people can easily follow academic and athletic news and […]

How to take adaptive learning to the next level

American InterContinental University shares how an in-depth training program built around empowering faculty is the key to optimizing adaptive learning technology for students’ benefit. eCampus News