edX and Microsoft Office Mix join to enhance online learning
A new partnership between edX and Office Mix aims to help faculty easily create, edit, and share courses with a host of interactive features for students. eCampus News
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Student Perceptions Of Online Interactive Versus Traditional Lectures; Or How I Managed Not To Fall Asleep With My Eyes Open
Universities are increasingly experimenting with the online domain to connect with busy and digital-savvy students and counter the decline in face-to-face lecture attendance More often than not universities are offering videoed lectures or PowerPoints with lecturer voice-overs as a way of delivering content. Evidence suggests that while these techniques may provide the flexibility required, some […]
Guidelines for Online Course Moderation and Community Building from a Student’s Perspective
This study examines students’ responses to questions about how online interactions and community building should be used in online courses. Four categories and 10 suggested guidelines emerged from the data. The categories were Student Needs, Instructor Behavior, Assignments and Community Building. The top three guidelines include 1) creating an environment that allows students to share, […]
Taking the grunt work out of Web development
New programming language automatically coordinates interactions between Web page components. MIT
In STEM Courses, a Gender Gap in Online Class Discussions
Women and men behave differently in online class discussions, at least in science, engineering, and computer-science courses, according to a new study conducted by Piazza Technologies, a company that makes a digital class-participation tool. Wired Campus
Instructor Utilization Of Podcasts In The Online Learning Environment
The utilization of podcasts in online learning environments has become common in higher education. The study examined how instructors used podcasts to deliver instructional material and instructors’ experiences with the use of podcasts in online courses. Twenty-five instructors who taught fully online courses at a research university in the United States completed the Instructional Use […]
Using Introductory Videos to Enhance ePortfolios and to Make Them Useful in the Hiring Process
This article explores whether or not there is a more effective way to develop and present portfolios to make them more meaningful and usable in the hiring process. An example of a pilot ePortfolio, with an accompanying three to four-minute introductory reflective video highlighting the pre-service teachers’ beliefs about education, was shown to 15 practicing […]
Social Support for Online Learning: Perspectives of Nursing Students
The purpose of this study was to identify supports beyond the educator that contributed to undergraduate and graduate nursing students’ ability and motivation to learn online. Case study methodology similar to Stake (2000) was bounded or contained by undergraduate and graduate online courses. Twenty-nine undergraduate and graduate nursing students, a majority of whom were women […]
Testing the Waters: An Analysis of the Student and Parent Experience in a Secondary School’s First Blended Course Offering
In this study, the perceptions of parents (n = 14) and students (n = 47) enrolled in a blended learning course, the first of its kind at their school, were examined. Student performance in the blended and in the traditional portion of the course was examined, and the Educational Success Prediction Instrument (ESPRI) was administered […]
Download Report: The Four-Year Myth
Complete College America Releases Affordability Strategy Based on Guided Pathways to Success (GPS) to Address Low Completion Rates, High Cost of Extra Time on Campus In their latest report, Four-Year Myth, Complete College America and its Alliance of States reveal that the vast majority of full-time American college students do not graduate on time, costing […]