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On the 100th Anniversary of the outbreak of the First World War, the digital archive “Europeana 1914-1918” was released in Berlin. Ten national libraries and twenty film archives worked together for the largest digital image and document archive -500,000 objects. Access the website
Third time isn’t necessarily the charm for massive open online course instructors, but through a process of trial and error, some faculty members at Stanford University say their MOOCs are living up to (some of) the potential promised two years ago. Inside Higher Ed Full Article
The University of the People, an unusual online institution in which students pay no tuition and faculty members volunteer, has been accredited, The New York Times reported. Officials at the university have predicted that accreditation could lead to rapid growth. The university was accredited by the Distance Education and Training Council. The university’s founder described […]
Mobile communication technologies (MCTs) pose new opportunities and challenges to university governance. Not only are the devices widespread, they have particular capabilities and constantly changing uses which makes any governing of them difficult. Furthermore most devices are individually owned. Thus universities are unable to directly control how they are used but do have a duty […]
By: Dr. Farhad (Fred) Saba Founder, Distance-Educator.com With the advent of correspondence education, practice of distance education traces back to the 1800s. However, its formal study is relatively new. At the outset, scholars in Australia, Canada, Germany, the United Kingdom, and the United States began publishing referred scholarly journal articles about the field starting in […]
Dyslexia has an ambivalent relationship with learning technology. Any potential gains may be nullified if the technology is perceived to exacerbate stigma. This paper examines the use of an ‘everyday’ technology, Facebook, by a small group of sixth form students labelled as dyslexic. ‘Levelling the playing field’ is a phrase the participants used often when […]
This study examined predictors of students’ intentions to access face-to-face (f2f) or online options for lectures and tutorials in a buffet-style blended learning 2nd-year psychology statistics course (N = 113; 84% female). Students were aged 18 to 51 years (M = 23.16; SD = 6.80). Practical and technological predictors, along with attitudinal and motivational factors drawn from the expectancy […]
Leaders of key committees in the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives, the Acting Under Secretary of Education and the chair of the U.S. Department of Education (USDE) National Advisory Committee on Institutional Quality and Integrity addressed plenary sessions at the Council for Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA) 2014 Annual Conference, held January 27-29 in Washington, […]
According to figures from the UNESCO Institute for Statistics, “Countries will need an extra 1.6 million teachers to achieve universal primary education by 2015 and 3.3 million by 2030”. The 2013/4 Global Monitoring Report provides a useful discussion of the consequences of this deficit, as well as some strategies for overcoming it. There are, unfortunately, […]
Unisa will host the 26th World Conference of the International Council for Open and Distance Education (ICDE), to be held for the first time in Africa. “This is an extraordinary and out-of-the-box opportunity,” said ICDE Secretary General, Gard Titlestad. Speaking following a successful two-day workshop at Unisa, where the conference details were deliberated, he described Unisa […]