Archive for the ‘Higher Education’ Category

Three Studies on Augmented Reality

Children’s Augmented Storying in, with and for Nature Drawing on a relational ontology and scholarship of new literacies, we investigate the materiality and performativity of children’s augmented storying in nature. Our study is situated in a Finnish primary school in which a novel, augmented reality application (MyAR Julle) was utilized as a digital storytelling tool […]

ASU: Laser-Focused on Ensuring the Current Learning Experience; Sights Set on Designs for the Future

We’re happy to be catching up with Kyle Bowen for the first time since his move to Arizona State University in February 2020 to assume his new post in the University Technology Office as the executive director of ASU’s Learning Experience Group. Here, we learn how the university can continue to offer students the experiences […]

Download Report: Global development of AI-based education

Artificial intelligence (AI) is accelerating the integration of information technology into education, providing support or even alternative approaches for practioners in the industry. AI-based education in the future will be driven by the use of data, intensive technology application, integrated innovation, and service optimization. Deloitte

Are E-Texts the Future of Distance Education? Investigating Online Students’ Open Resource Preferences

At a private university, a correlational survey design was implemented to assess students’ perceptions towards Open Educational Resources (OER) before experiencing an open course design initiative and to subsequently provide stakeholder feedback for guiding pedagogical decisions. The Student Textbook Survey was employed to determine if interest in electronic texts could predict with statistical significance student […]

Digital Transformation: It’s Time

Digital transformation can help higher education meet three unavoidable challenges ahead: mounting financial pressures, changes in the college experience, and ongoing uncertainty. It’s time to think differently. EDUCAUSE Review

Antecedents of Student Loyalty in Open and Distance Learning Institutions: An Empirical Analysis

The purpose of this research is to examine the relationship between factors leading to student loyalty in open and distance learning universities. Specifically, this research explores the relationship between perceived service quality, perceived e-service quality, and university image as mediators of student loyalty in Open University Malaysia (OUM). Data were collected from 16 OUM learning […]

Quantum Computing for the Next Generation of Computer Scientists and Researchers

Travis Humble is a distinguished scientist and director of the Quantum Computing Institute at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. The institute is a lab-wide organization that brings together all of ORNL’s capabilities to address the development of quantum computers. Humble is also an academic, holding a joint faculty appointment at the University of Tennessee, where he […]

Exploring collaboration in online group based assessment contexts: Undergraduate Business Program

Focussing on a specific higher education online learning environment (OLE), this study aims to investigate and analyse instructional designs that employ Positive Interdependence, Individual Accountability, Teaching Presence, Authenticity and Group Skills Development as educational strategies to mitigate group work issues and subsequently encourage collaborative group work. Group work is a challenging learning space for both participants […]

Download Report: Delivering High-Quality Instruction Online in Response to COVID 19: Faculty Playbook

For many in the higher education community, the notion that nearly every educator would all at once be delivering their courses online seemed improbable, if not impossible. But here we are. In just the span of a few weeks, as a result of the rapidly spreading coronavirus, almost every postsecondary institution has either closed or […]

Exploring the use of online machine translation for independent language learning

The free availability of online machine translation (OMT) on the Internet via computers, tablets and smartphones makes it convenient for use by language students of all levels. Google Translate has been widely listed as an independent language learning (ILL) resource and we cannot deny its role for ongoing education. We are aware of the fact […]