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Information literacy skills on the go: Mobile Learning Innovation

Students’ understanding and integration of information literacy (IL) skills are fundamental to higher education and lifelong learning.  Development and implementation of thirteen mobile lessons application (http://renmil.ca/ ) in the Mobile Information Literacy Tool (MIL) was the result of a unique collaboration between faculty and the library. Lessons demonstrated how to locate, evaluate, and use information […]

An inferior source? Quantitatively analysing the production and revision of five technology-enhanced learning-related terms on Wikipedia

This article analyses five technology-enhanced learning-related terms on Wikipedia, assessing their usefulness in relation to academic journal articles concerning the same terms. Data were obtained about the word lengths of the Wikipedia articles, the numbers of Wikipedia edits and numbers of academic journal publications over the first 5 years after the creation of the first […]

Learning Across Cultures, With Help From Technology

Students at six U.S. and six Japanese institutions next fall will get to enroll in classes developed jointly by instructors from opposite ends of the globe, thanks to a new technology-enhanced collaboration funded by the two countries’ governments. The American Council on Education is facilitating the American end of the project, which will spur implementation […]

Download Report: Online Learning in Continuing Higher Education: Current Practices and Planned Initiatives

As online enrollments outpace industry trends, many colleges are rushing to launch online programs that will attract new students. This has created intense competition in online education, but are colleges successfully meeting the learning demands of students? Find out in Online Learning in Continuing Higher Education, a new report from Learning House and the Association […]

DePaul University Launches Streamlined Platform to Ease Administrative Burden for Faculty, Enable More Time for Research and Teaching

Midwest’s largest private, nonprofit university teams with faculty information system Interfolio to support shared governance activities and improve faculty experience and workflow Interfolio

Unbundling and Rebundling Higher Education in an Age of Inequality

Unbundling and rebundling are happening in different parts of college and university education, through new forms of teaching and learning provision and in different parts of the degree path, in every dimension and aspect—creating a complicated environment in an educational sector that is already in a state of disequilibrium. EDUCAUSE Review

The Next Frontier of Adaptive Learning

Arizona State University isn’t satisfied with the state of adaptive courses. That’s why this innovative university is going all in with adaptive degree programs. Campus Technology

Virginia Tech announces Innovation Campus in Alexandria

Virginia Tech announces $1 billion ‘innovation campus’Virginia Tech announced on Tuesday plans to construct a $1 billion “innovation campus” to be opened next year in Alexandria, Virginia, just two miles from the new HQ2 office Amazon intends to build in nearby Crystal City, Virginia. edscoop   HISTORIC DAY: Virginia Tech Innovation Campus key to Virginia […]

Interview with a Learning Scientist: Bob Ubell of NYU

Bob Ubell is Vice Dean Emeritus at the NYU School of Engineering, and Dr. Robert Feldman is Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst – and he is also the Chair of the McGraw-Hill Learning Science Advisory Board. The conversation between Bob and Robert ranges from benefits and criticisms of […]

Download Report: Deliberate Innovation, Lifetime Education: #GT2040

“I got out,” is the proud mantra of the more than 157,000 Georgia Tech alumni worldwide. Whether a few years out, or celebrating a 50th class reunion, or perhaps somewhere in their midcareer, each Georgia Tech alumnus is bonded to this institution by stories of tradition, hard work, rigor, and experiences while they were a student. […]