White House makes ‘Digital Promise’ to schools
Obama administration officials will draw on expertise of tech industry, higher education to determine how educators can best use technologySOURCE: eSchool News Read the Full Article
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Contingent and Tenured/Tenure-Track Faculty: Motivations and Incentives to Teach Distance
Abstract The number of distance education (DE) offerings, including programs and courses, continue to grow in higher education. The current economic hardships have only increased the demand. However, with this increase comes the urgent need to maintain a reliable and consistent DE faculty. This need is complicated by the increasing reliance on contingent faculty to […]
Library School at U. of North Carolina Offers Students Lifelong Digital Archive
Incoming students at the University of North Carolina’s School of Information and Library Science this year are getting a new kind of welcome-to-campus perk: Free data storage, for keeps.SOURCE: The Chronicle of Higher Education Read the Full Article
University of Louisiana at Lafayette plans to launch first online degree program next semester
…students will be able to earn an online bachelor of science degree in kinesiology in the concentration of health promotion and wellness.SOURCE: The RepublicRead the Full Article
Athabasca University Opts Out of Access Copyright
In a message to students, Frits Pannekoek, president of Athabasca University, Canada’s Open University, announced that “Athabasca University has joined more than 35 other universities in Canada in electing to opt out of using Access Copyright for permissions related to the use of third party materials in courses.” Access Copyright was established as a not-for-profit […]
Authors’ Guild sues universities over book digitization project
(Ars Technica) — With the planned settlement between Google and book publishers still on indefinite hold, a legal battle by proxy has started. Google partnered with many libraries at US universities in order to gain access to the works it wants to digitize. Now, several groups that represent book authors have filed suit against those […]
Augmented Reality Meets Gesture Recognition
A new app superimposes imagery over your smart-phone view, and lets you interact with it via hand gestures.SOURCE: Technology ReviewRead the Full Article
Developing an Online Community of In-Service Teachers
Abstract Establishing an online community of professional learners was one component of a multiyear professional development project with an overall goal of improving the ability of career and technical educators to use and interpret technical assessment data. Educators from five states and nine different schools participated in a research-based workshop and were mentored for several […]
Penn State Wins Two Prestigious National Higher Education Awards
The Sloan Consortium has honored Penn State’s World Campus and the World Campus’ leader with two 2011 awards for excellence in online teaching and learning. SOURCE: PRWebRead the Press Release
A Meaningful Hybrid E-Training Measure And Model For Technology In Education
AbstractA close examination of new hybrid e-training programmes, for determining programme quality, exposed a critical disparity between rapid technological advancements and established pedagogical models. The objective of this study was, therefore, to develop, generate, test, and validate a two-stage model for a meaningful hybrid e-training programme. An early framework of the model helped develop a […]