Tracking what students grasp
Socrative mobile quiz app saves teachers time and offers real-time data on student comprehension of material. MIT
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10 Online Learning Trends to Watch in 2015 [#Infographic]
Amid the shifting sands of online education, which trends can we expect to set the tone for e-learning in the year ahead? EdTech Focus on Higher Education
FCC approves $1.5B E-rate increase
The Federal Communications Commission on Dec. 11 voted to increase funding to the federal E-rate program by $1.5 billion. The additional funding comes from a consumer telephone bill increase of $1.90 per year. eSchool News
Unique LMS emerges for developing countries
Windows 8.1 and Android-based LMS developed for emerging markets to revolutionize the education industry eCampus News
Impact of Multi‑media Tutorials in a Computer Science Laboratory Course An Empirical Study
Higher education institutes of North America, Europe and far-east Asia have been leveraging the advances in ICT for quite some time. However, research based knowledge on the use of ICT in the higher education institutes of central and south-east Asia is still not readily available. The study presented in this paper explores a variant of […]
Rethinking Low Completion Rates in MOOCs
Completion rates in free online courses are low—to critics, laughably so. But exactly how low are they? The answer might be a matter of interpretation. Wired Campus
Download eBook: Stanford’s Precourt Institute and KQED launch new e-book series on climate change
The new four-part iBooks Textbook series, Clue into Climate, and an accompanying iTunes U course can be downloaded for free on iPad. Stanford University
What Internet Users Know about Technology and the Web
American internet users’ knowledge of the modern technology landscape varies widely across a range of topics, according to a new knowledge quiz conducted by the Pew Research Center as part of its ongoing series commemorating the 25th anniversary of the World Wide Web. Pew Internet Research Project
Nature journals now free, as open access model gains steam
The public now has unprecedented access to dozens more research journals, including the prestigious Nature, as publisher Macmillan announced that 49 of its titles will be available through a free content-sharing model starting Tuesday. GIGAOM
Online Einstein Project Reveals Scientist’s Magnitude and Minutiae
Albert Einstein has long been one of the best-documented scientific figures. Now his voluminous papers have become among the most readily available records of a great thinker’s life and work. The Chronicle of Higher Education