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The third edition of the Handbook of Distance Education edited by Michael Graham Moore, Distinguished Professor of Education at The Pennsylvania State University, where he specializes in the study of distance education, has been just published by Routledge, a member of the Taylor & Francis Group. It reflects a comprehensive treatment of scholarship about contemporary […]
Farhad (Fred) Saba, Ph. D. Founder and Editor, Distance-Educator.com In recent years administrators are paying increasing attention to studying the discrete components of colleges and universities through collecting and analyzing massive amount of data on student behavior, number of courses offered and taken, time students spend in each course, completion rates, etc. While analytics sheds […]
Farhad (Fred) Saba, Ph. D. Founder and Editor, Distance-Educator.co The dramatic increase in popularity of higher education in the past 30 years has resulted in a major change in the profile of students attending colleges and universities. No longer the majority of the student body consists of full-time in-residence young men and women between 18 […]
New global report sheds light on lack of internet access, use by women eSchool News Full Article
UPCEA has partnered with the American Council on Education (ACE) to examine the academic potential of massive open online courses (MOOCs). UPCEA will collaborate with ACE to evaluate how MOOCs could integrate into traditional degree completion programs. ACE, through funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, will work with UPCEA and Coursera, a leading […]
Some producers of free e-textbooks have had trouble persuading professors to adopt them. So one backer of “open-source textbooks” has decided to sell its titles on Chegg, an online textbook retailer, for a small fee in hopes of reaching a wider audience. Wired Campus Full Article
Media Contact Jason Amos Phone: 202-828-0828 E-mail: jamos@all4ed.org One Month Until Students, Teachers, and Administrators Gather with Peers from Around the Nation to Explore How Digital Learning Is Changing Education; More than 16,000 Teachers, Forty-Four States and DC Already Engaged WASHINGTON, D.C. – With less than one month until the second annual national Digital […]
Consumer Electronics Show kicks off in 2013 and Telecommunications Industry Association NOW sat down with Consumer Electronic Association President Gary Shapiro to answer some important questions about innovation and the network. Telecommunications Industry Association Watch the video
MOOCs may have snared most of the headlines, but traditional, credit-based online learning continued to chug along just fine last year, thank you very much. Inside Higher Ed Full Article
Educators and administrators are collecting an enormous amount of data about the progress of their students and schools. Now that this information has been collected, how can it be used to improve education? eSchool News Full Article