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Students at Arizona State University can now download class documents as files formatted for screen readers, braille or MP3 audio, the school announced Thursday, a service university officials said will make digital course content more accessible for all students. Ally, the new tool from learning management system provider Canvas, not only scans content and converts […]
London School of Business and Finance has announced it is offering all of its online postgraduate students a new way to gain public speaking skills via virtual reality headsets. So far, hundreds of headsets have been sent to students all around the world, including Germany, Nigeria, India and the United Arab Emirates. Education is expected to […]
Bologna Digital 2020: White Paper on Digitalisation in the European Higher Education Area 1.1 Why this White Paper? Europe needs new visions for contemporary higher education in the digital age. Digitalisation is not only an additional challenge, but also an effective means to address key challenges for higher education in the 21st century. This paper […]
One of the goals of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) is to democratise education. With their unique openness feature, courses are offered to global learners with diverse backgrounds and cultures. This research has conducted a systematic literature review to identify the cultural aspects of multicultural learning environments and MOOCs, and what strategies, approaches, and dimensions […]
This policy report represents Output 6 (O6) of the MOONLITE project and provides guidelines for policy makers on how to maximise the potential of MOOCs and minimise the potential risks they might introduce to the HEI (system) and society. The recommendations are summarized in the form of a declaration, initiated at the MOONLITE multiplier event […]
The United States Distance Learning Association (USDLA) is pleased to announce the 2020 Annual Conference Call for Proposals. Proposals are now being accepted based on the conference theme, “Grooving Around the World with Digital & Distance Learning in Music City” and will be taking place May 18 – 21, 2020 in Music City: Nashville, Tennessee! United States […]
Higher education made a striking number of headlines in 2019, in part due to the Varsity Blues scandal that exposed the seedier aspects of college admissions and attracted nationwide attention for its celebrity perpetrators. But last year brought other changes and controversies to higher ed. Conversations about how to keep struggling small colleges alive have resulted […]
Higher education has relied on assessments of learning for generations. The SAT, ACT, GMAT, LSAT, MCAT and GRE ostensibly test fitness for study. Licensure exam results in fields such as nursing, law and accounting are touted as a way to assess the quality of institutions. Programmatic accreditors expect external validation of learning (e.g., Accreditation Council […]
The students’ re-enrollment can reflect as one of the indications of an educational institution’s service quality and student loyalty. The re-enrollment is identified by the condition that students enrolled in one semester would re-enroll in the next immediate semester. The main concern of this article is that there are many interrelated variables affecting students’ re-enrollment. […]
Students’ usage of lecture recordings can be characterised by usage frequency, repetitiveness and selectivity in watching, lecture attendance, and social context and location in which students watch the lecture recordings. At the University of Münster (Germany), the lecture recording service was evaluated over three semesters. The data were combined and used for a cluster analysis […]