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Blended learning in large enrolment courses: Student perceptions across four different instructional models

Drawing on data from five large enrolment introductory courses in a public university, we compared students’ perceptions of blended learning on design, interaction, learning, and satisfaction in four different blended models. The models, which were the result of a course redesign initiative, had different combinations of face-to-face lectures, online sessions, and small group tutorial classes. […]

Using learning analytics to develop early-warning system for at-risk students

In the current study interaction data of students in an online learning setting was used to research whether the academic performance of students at the end of term could be predicted in the earlier weeks. The study was carried out with 76 second-year university students registered in a Computer Hardware course. The study aimed to answer […]

Humanising Text-to-Speech Through Emotional Expression in Online Courses

This paper outlines an innovative approach to evaluating the emotional content of three online courses using the affective computing approach of prosody detection on two different text-to-speech (TTS) voices in conjunction with human raters judging the emotional content of the text. This work intends to establish the potential variation on the emotional delivery of online […]

An Interview with Peter Smith on His New Book Free-Range Learning in the Digital Age: The Emerging Revolution in College, Career, and Education By Peter Smith

The future of higher education is one in which “adult learners who continue to learn on the job will receive both credit and respect for their informal learning” [1]. This prior learning, while not gained in the traditional sense, is the primary way for higher education to meet expectations for adult learners who have been […]

A Taxonomy of Inclusive Design: On Disclosure, Accessibility, and Inclusion

Before you read further, we’d like you to consider how you define inclusion. What does it mean to you? Please enter a brief (three to five words or up to forty characters) definition of inclusion into the Answer Garden text field below and click Submit to view a word cloud with other responses. EDUCAUSE Review […]

Who’s Completing Microcredentials?

A new report looks at those who earn microcredentials, who are, on the whole, well educated, international, employed. Are the programs accomplishing what advocates thought they would? Inside Higher Edu

Learning for a Different Future: Learning in an Age of Disruption

A number of change forces are reshaping communities, organizations, work and identity. These global forces require educational organizations to rethink their purpose, ways of working and their collaborations to better serve the needs of society. They are leading to new kinds of educational organizations, new forms of learning and new kinds of credentials as well […]

New Study from EDC and SRI International Demonstrates Positive Effects of PBS KIDS Digital Media on Young Children’s Science and Engineering Learning

WALTHAM, MA, AND MENLO PARK, CA, NOV. 7, 2019—Education Development Center (EDC) and SRI International (SRI) announced the release of their new study Early Science and Engineering: The Impact of The Cat in the Hat Knows A Lot About That! on Learning. The study’s goal was to understand the extent to which providing access to media resources focused on critical science […]

Institutions to Tackle Internet Governance and Policy Issues

Twenty-two universities, think tanks and advocacy organizations are delving into policy issues around technology and the internet, funded by more than $3.5 million from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. Camps Technology

It’s Time for Learning Science to Drive Education Policy

It’s time to embed learning research into policy, according to a new report. Pulling from neuroscience, psychology and brain science, among other disciplines, learning scientists have found, for example, that learners have to “actively engage in constructing new knowledge and skills,” best done through a “dynamic interplay of emotion, motivation and cognition.” And once something’s […]