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Ball State app lets travelers create detailed trip journals

Ball State University has developed a versatile mobile application that allows college classes to compile the equivalent of digital “textbooks” about their field trips and individual travelers to create detailed vacation journals. Ball State University Full Story

Regulating Distance Ed

Institutions that offer online education programs should not be forced to answer to regulators in each and every state where they enroll students, according to a group led by the former U.S. Education Secretary Richard Riley. Inside Higher Education Full Article

Faculty Backlash Grows Against Online Partnerships

Many professors recognize that online education is changing the landscape of academe. But faculty members at several colleges are making it clear that they will not be steamrolled. Chronicle of Higher Education Full Article

Attack of the Apps: Helping facilitate online learning with mobile devices

As an educational developer I am constantly searching for new ways to help aid academic staff in the development of teaching and learning. As technology advances, teachers and instructional designers are seeking new and innovative ways to help enable communication to students, especially those learning fully online. By using plugins and resources within learning management […]

Diving into distance learning librarianship

Distance education is not new. The ACRL Distance Learning Section was formed more than 30 years ago, for example, but online learning is now growing rapidly. From 2002 to 2008, undergraduates enrolled in at least one distance education course rose from 8% to 20%.1 In turn, more librarians are connecting with online students and faculty, […]

Commentary by Former Secretary Riley: Reciprocity Is Essential for Regulating Distance Education

Online education has been growing at a tremendous pace over the last decade or so. Students today have the opportunity to earn college credit and degrees from a wide variety of institutions. Almost seven million students used online technology in 2011 to get access to postsecondary courses, and 32 percent of higher-education students now take […]

The National Repository of Online Courses (NROC)

The National Repository of Online Courses (NROC) is a growing library of high-quality online course content for students and faculty in higher education, high school and Advanced Placement Access Website

Shape Shifting Smart Phones: Riding the Waves in Education

The smartphone is a recent technological addition to post-secondary education and it has both educational and non-educational applications. This study examines the educational use of smartphones using principles from actor-network theory (ANT). The purpose of the investigation was to learn about the multiple entanglements of students, teachers and smartphones in overlapping networks or assemblages and […]

Using technology to fight cheating in online college education

High-tech methods have evolved as schools look to stay one step ahead of students eCampus News Full Article

Rich Media e-Compendiums: A New Tool for Enhanced Learning in Higher Education

Electronically supported learning has increasingly been introduced and accepted into the academic community over recent decades, and a variety of new digital learning tools have been developed to serve students both for distance education and on-campus blended learning. To serve our distance education nursing students, we recently developed unique rich media e-compendiums, based on a […]