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If any company epitomizes the danger that excessive hype can do to its brand, it is Knewton. The educational technology company, which famously boasted about the power of its adaptive learning platform to “semi-read” students’ minds, has been acquired by publisher Wiley Education. Inside Higher Ed
With online learning programs in demand and growing fast, higher-ed leaders have to ensure that their programs meet student needs and set students up for success. A new report offers takeaways and best practices around four major topics impacting online learning programs: data analytics, curriculum, standards and measurement, and mentoring and coaching. The report comes […]
Back in April 2012, Daphne Koller and Andrew Ng launched Coursera to enable anyone, anywhere to transform their life through learning. Seven years ago, we couldn’t have imagined where we’d be today: connecting 40 million learners around the globe with the world’s greatest thinkers, educators, and institutions. Coursera
This Special Issue explores teaching and learning with an emphasis on the practical value and impact of instructional technology in the online classroom. As such, articles feature critical reflection analysis, case studies, and classroom innovations that utilize instructional technology to enhance the online learning experience. The goal of this Special Issue is to inspire integration […]
U.S. adult Twitter users are younger and more likely to be Democrats than the general public. Most users rarely tweet, but the most prolific 10% create 80% of tweets from adult U.S. users. Pew Research Center
The current study addresses the concept of mediated embodied cognition (EC) by focusing on audio inputs/outputs rather than sight and visual cues. N=10 subjects were involved with the navigation of five virtual mazes with different design and sensorial affordances. A virtual audiocane was developed (within a middleware – NEED – aimed to improve learning environments’ […]
ODL provides the learners more access to higher education with its flexible approach, wider choice of courses, qualitative instructional methods and cost effectiveness. The advent of ICT has added the e-learning aspect to ODL as well. The open and distance system has reached a phase wherein it is important to look inwards, to understand the […]
As long ago as 1992, Greville Rumble was writing about the “competitive vulnerabilities” of single-mode distance teaching institutions [universities]. In the intervening years the challenges he described have only intensified, especially so as advancing information and communication technologies have enabled increasing numbers of campus-based tertiary institutions to enter distance learning, usually targeting the part-time adult […]
This paper examines the effect of the Internet on the reading comprehension of children reading together in groups. First, we describe an experiment to determine if children reading together off the Internet from big screens, can read at a higher comprehension level than children reading the same text alone. The results from this small-sample study […]
In 2003, Kevin Leander and Kelly McKim made the argument for connecting scholarship on physical spaces with that of online spaces. They named this fusion of scholarly areas connective ethnography, termed by Christine Hine (2000, as cited in Leander & McKim, 2003). At that time, they asked: “How might we develop research practices and frameworks […]