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Many learners who have not chosen to identify as having physical, sensory, and learning disabilities still may struggle to learn in the online learning environment due to diverse abilities and backgrounds, differing cultural and linguistic backgrounds, and other factors that affect perception, learning ability, and engagement. Given the apparent difficulty of a subset of learners […]
We are incredibly fortunate to live in a time of accessible information and rampant knowledge transfer. However, a double-edged sword exists with the extensive scope and breadth of content that is available and which requires keen skills to cull the valid from invalid. Consequently, it is our obligation and responsibility to hone and refine our […]
From 1994 to 1998, the number of distance education degree programs in United States colleges increased by seventy-two percent. Distance education enrollment growth rates averaged seven percent per year and estimates suggested that U.S. companies spent as much as 18 billion dollars on IT-based delivery for online education in 2005. Fast forward to 2009-2010, the […]
Open educational resource (OER) barriers, incentives, and benefits are at the forefront of educator and institution interests as global use of OER evolves. Research into OER use, perceptions, costs, and outcomes is becoming more prevalent; however, it is still in its infancy. Understanding barriers to full adoption, administration, and acceptance of OER is paramount to […]
Doctoral studies are often described as solitary and challenging endeavors, dependent on candidates’ highly developed skills, self-driven nature, and commitment to engage in years of research activity. A range of university initiatives are specially crafted to support higher research degree students, for example, through digital and physical resources, workshops, group gatherings, and others. Our project […]
The global online learning platform edX, set up by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Harvard University, is preparing a further disruption of traditional higher education models, with new micro-degrees and ‘stacked’ degrees made up of credits from a range of institutions, according to Anant Agarwal, founder and CEO of edX. University World News
I this study, we examined the research literature in the field of K- 12 online learning to identify the leading scholars, journals, top cited articles, research methods, and topics in this field of inquiry. Our research process involved collecting a corpus of journal arti- cles focused on K-12 online and distance learning; categorizing these articles […]
MOSCOW — The conference was a lot like any other about the role of technology in learning today. Hot topics included questions about which students are well suited for online learning and whether they’re the ones policy makers are nudging into online programs, plentiful rhetoric about “big data” and alternative credentials, and much hand-wringing about […]
Online education provider unveiled plan to monetize its MOOCs, but observers say real opportunity for edX to grow lies in online program management business. Inside Higher Ed
In machine learning, there’s something called the “No Free Lunch” theorem. In a nutshell, it states that no one algorithm works best for every problem, and it’s especially relevant for supervised learning (i.e. predictive modeling). For example, you can’t say that neural networks are always better than decision trees or vice-versa. There are many factors […]