Archive for the ‘Digital Media’ Category

How Adobe is Closing the Digital Skills Gap

Adobe is teaming up with innovative, forward-thinking higher education institutions, such as New York University, to incorporate Adobe digital skills into their Professional Studies Graduate programs while partnering with Adobe customers during the students’ journey to include applied learning to resolve real business issues these organizations are facing. Adobe

Sonification of numerical data for education

Sonification is the use of non-speech audio to convey information. In this article, sonifications are representations of plots aimed at improving the accessibility of teaching materials. The electronic nature of sonifications means that they can be deployed to students via teaching interfaces such as virtual learning environments. We describe a two-phase study that explores sonifications […]

Download Report: Mobile Connectivity in Emerging Economies

Publics see mobile phones and social media bringing certain benefits to them and their societies. But these views are paired with widespread concerns about their impact on children Pew Research Center  

Download Report: The Educational Equity Imperative: Leveraging Technology to Empower Learning for All

The Speak Up National Research Project annually polls K-12 students, parents and educators about the role of technology for learning in and out of school. For the past fifteen years, Project Tomorrow’s® annual Speak Up Research Project for Digital Learning has provided schools and districts nationwide and around the globe with illuminating insights into the […]

Digital transformation in German higher education: student and teacher perceptions and usage of digital media

Digitalization in Higher Education (HE) institutions is an issue that concerns many educational stakeholders. ICT skills are becoming increasingly relevant in every context, especially in the workplace, therefore one of the prime objectives for universities has become preparing future professionals to be able to deal with problems and search for solutions, including digital competence as […]

Library Perspectives on the EDUCAUSE 2019 Top 10 IT Issues

Bringing librarians’ perspectives into the mix of the annual EDUCAUSE Top 10 IT Issuesis a natural focus for EDUCAUSE. The EDUCAUSE Library/IT Partnership Community Group hosts meetings at EDUCAUSE conferences and maintains an online forum for year-long conversation. EDUCAUSE, along with the Association of Research Libraries (ARL), created the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) as a […]

The Professor Who Quit His Tenured Job to Make Podcasts and Lecture Videos

What’s life like after quitting a tenured job as a professor to become a freelance educator, making video courses and podcasts for a living? That’s one question we had for Kevin deLaplante, who did just that when he left Iowa State University in 2015 to focus on running his Argument Ninja Podcast and teaching courses […]

Criteria For Choosing LMSs and Interactive Media

8 Criteria For Choosing An LMS For Corporate Compliance Training Whether you are searching for a new Learning Management System or looking to take your first steps into digital and blended workplace learning, there are a number of factors to consider. As with any investment, it pays to shop around. But what is it you […]

8 Ed Tech Trends to Watch in 2019

What technologies and trends will have the biggest impact on higher education in the coming year? We asked four university IT leaders to weigh in on the top issues in ed tech and share what they’re seeing both on the horizon and in their own institutions. Here’s what they told us. Campus Technology

Villanova U. students are building a virtual tour of the Vatican

Students and faculty from a private Catholic university in Pennsylvania have been recreating some of the most historic Vatican and Roman sites using virtual reality technology, and have now begun planning their latest project — a virtual tour of the Apostolic Palace of Castel Gandolfo. edscoop