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Faculty and administrators use anecdotal evidence to assume the reasons full-time traditional students at private Christian colleges choose to take online summer courses at community colleges instead of their own online offerings. The purpose of this research was to provide empirical evidence necessary to make informed decisions regarding strategic planning for enrollment efforts at private […]
“Look at your past. Your past has determined where you are at this moment. What you do today will determine here you are tomorrow. Are you moving forward or standing still?” Tom Hopkins Abstract During the past decade, the convenience of online learning has afforded postsecondary students of all ages the opportunity to attend and […]
This article presents the results of a case study of the use of a microblogging tool by a university academic to increase their knowledge and experience of social media for educational purposes. The academic had the role of digital steward in a university and attempted to use microblogging (Twitter) to increase professional contacts within the […]
Colleges broadly threaten faculty members’ copyrights and academic freedom in claiming ownership of the massive open online courses their instructors have developed, Cary Nelson, a former president of the American Association of University Professors, argued here on Wednesday at the group’s annual conference. The Chronicle of Higher Education Full Article
Each time a teacher or a learner interacts with an Open Educational Resource (OER), these interactions produce data. This “interaction data” includes “artifact data” routinely captured during any online interaction by Web server logs (e.g., users’ browsers, users’ IP addresses) and “social data” created during Web 2.0-style interactions with resources (e.g., tags, comments, ratings, favorites). […]
Thursday, June 13 at 11 Pacific, noon Mountain, 1 Central and 2 PM Eastern Daylight Presenters: Sheryl Burgstahler Director of UW Accessible Technology & DO-IT University of Washington Terrill Thompson Technology Accessibility Specialist University of Washington How many higher education institutions in the United States have web or technology accessibility policies? What do these policies […]
As more and more colleges experiment with massive open online courses, or MOOCs, a new project hopes to cut through the hype and gauge the effectiveness of the courses. Wired Campus Full Article
This world-renowned proponent of open education will be a keynote speaker at the 25th ICDE World Conference in Tianjin, China, 16-18 October 2013, bringing his unique perspective on innovation and technology at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, including on the benefits from MOOCs for an institution, and on the changing economics and ecology of education. International […]
The 29th Annual Conference on Distance Teaching & Learning features keynotes, Dr. Richard Baraniuk from Rice University and Dr. Sally Johnstone from Western Governors University. The three-day schedule has more than 150 educational opportunities plus several networking events. Conference Website
Farhad Saba, Ph. D. Founder and Editor, Distance-Educator.com In this series of articles, I presented a hierarchical model of distance education consisting of seven interrelated nested systems levels. These systems have been present in most distance education organizations that I observed, or planned and built over the past 30 years. In the previous weeks, I […]
