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Desire2Learn’s Most Recent Acquisition, Wiggio, Makes Working in Groups Easy for Students Both Inside and Outside of the Classroom

Desire2Learn announces integration of Wiggio, the company’s most recent acquisition, into Desire2Learn Learning Suite. FUSION 2013, Boston, Mass., July 15, 2013 Desire2Learn Incorporated (“Desire2Learn”), a leading provider of innovative learning solutions, today announced it has integrated Wiggio, the company’s most recent acquisition, into Desire2Learn Learning Suite. To help make working in groups simple, Wiggio’s enterprise-class […]

10 principles to consider when introducing ICTs into remote, low-income educational environments

There are, broadly speaking, two strands of concurrent thinking that dominate discussions around the use of new technologies in education around the world. At one end of the continuum, talk is dominated by words like ‘transformation’. The (excellent) National Education Technology Plan of the United States (Transforming American Education: Learning Powered by Technology), for example, […]

Blackboard Announces New MOOC Platform

Las Vegas — Blackboard, a company that makes software that many colleges use to run their classroom and online courses, announced on Wednesday that it was expanding its support for MOOCs, though it is relatively late to the much-talked-about trend of massive open online courses. Wired Campus Full Article

Coursera, an Online Education Company, Raises Another $43 Million

Coursera, a year-old company offering free online courses, has raised another $43 million in venture capital from investors active in both domestic and international education. The New York Times Full Article

Learning Equity between Online and On-Site Mathematics Courses

This paper reports on a research study that focused on equity in learning as reflected in the final grades of online and on-site students from the same post-secondary mathematics course taught repeatedly over 10 semesters from Fall 2005 through Spring 2011. On-site students attended regular class sessions, while online students only attended an orientation session […]

American MOOC Providers Face International Competition

Although talk of providers of MOOCs, or massive open online courses, has centered mostly on American companies and nonprofit organizations like Coursera and edX, MOOC platforms in other countries have made it clear that they are also looking to stake a claim in this growing realm of higher education. Wired Campus Full Article

Free Online Content Forces Publishers to Adjust

Commercial publishers are accustomed to battling with one another for control of state and local markets for textbooks and other academic materials. Now they face a more complicated task: how to cope with what’s being offered to schools for free. Education Week Full Article

Customizing the Learning Experience with an Adaptive Learning Strategy

At Union County College, an adaptive learning strategy is helping next fall’s entering students prepare for success in their future college-credit bearing math courses. By taking a non-credit program over the summer, they can get up to speed for college-level math, potentially avoiding developmental ed courses when they enter college in the fall. It’s like […]

Distribution of Feedback among Teacher and Students in Online Collaborative Learning in Small Groups

This study explores the characteristics and distribution of the feedback provided by the participants (a teacher and her students) in an activity organized inside a collaborative online learning environment. We analyse 853 submissions made by two groups of graduate students and their teacher (N1= 629 & N2=224) involved in the collaborative development of a rubric […]

Designing and Evaluating Tutoring Feedback Strategies for digital learning environments on the basis of the Interactive Tutoring Feedback Model

This paper describes the interactive tutoring feedback model (ITF-model; Narciss, 2006; 2008). The ITF-model conceptualizes formative tutoring feedback as a multidimensional instructional activity that aims at contributing to the regulation of a learning process in such a way that learners acquire or improve the competencies (i.e., conceptual and procedural knowledge as well as cognitive and […]

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