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DOWNLOAD REPORT: New Approaches to Judging Quality in Higher Education: Profiles of Emerging Methods Apart from Traditional Accreditation

New Approaches to Judging Quality in Higher Education: Profiles of Emerging Methods Apart from Traditional Accreditation The purpose of this report is to profile a selection of emerging approaches to judg- ing quality in higher education that represent a range of stakeholder interests andperspectives. This report includes three sections: Part 1. Quality Assurance at a […]

University of Phoenix Expands Partnership with Blackboard to Enable Next-Generation Digital Learning Platform Powered by Blackboard’s Ultra Experience

WASHINGTON, July 17, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — University of Phoenix is expanding its partnership with Blackboard through 2022 as it delivers on its commitment to provide leading edge solutions to meet the unique educational needs of working adult students. Blackboard

Temple University Joins Leading Higher Education Institutes to Empower Digital Literacy Skills With Adobe Creative Cloud

SAN JOSE, Calif. — July 19, 2018 — Adobe (Nasdaq:ADBE) and Temple University have reached an agreement for campus-wide access to Adobe Creative Cloud (Adobe CC). The licensing agreement allows every Temple University student, faculty member and employee with a registered university email address to log in and use Adobe CC. This includes access to […]

Keeping Online Courses Fresh: Valuable, but Costly

Mary Niemiec, associate vice president for distance education at the University of Nebraska, hears all the time from faculty members and others who believe online courses must cost less to produce than face-to-face classes because they can be left untouched after launch. She wants everyone who still believes that to understand why they’re wrong. Inside […]

The Impact of Program-Wide Discussion Board Grading Rubric on Student and Faculty Satisfaction

In addition to learning more about a topic, online discussion activities may be used to develop skills in reflective practice, critical evaluation, and leadership. Faculty often spends a great amount of time and energy developing discussion assignments that will improve these skills and align with course learning outcomes. Facilitating and evaluating online discussion assignments can […]

Innovating In An Age Of Uncertainty

Faster and more wide-ranging innovation is often urged as the key to solving the various challenges that currently face humankind, from climate change to income inequality. This article looks at a complex example of innovation, the portability ofqualifications proposed in Groningen Declaration, and reviews some of the politi- cal and social obstacles that might slow […]

A Generalizable Framework for Multi-Scale Auditing of Digital Learning Provision in Higher Education

It is increasingly important that higher education institutions can audit and evaluate the scope and efficacy of their digital learning resources across various scales. To-date there has been little effort to address this need for a validated, appropriate and simple to execute method that will facilitate such an audit; whether it be at the scale […]

Understanding Student Engagement in Large-Scale Open Online Courses: A Machine Learning Facilitated Analysis of Student’s Reflections in 18 Highly Rated MOOCs

Although massive open online courses (MOOCs) have attracted much worldwide attention, scholars still understand little about the specific elements that students find engaging in these large open courses. This study offers a new original contribution by using a machine learning classifier to analyze 24,612 reflective sentences posted by 5,884 students, who participated in one or […]

Technology Matters – The Impact of Transactional Distance on Satisfaction in Online Distance Learning

Transactional distance (TD), the perception of psychological distance between the student and his peers, his instructor/teacher, and the learning content, has long been a prominent construct in research on distance education. Today, distance education primarily takes place over the internet, with technology mediating engagement and communication. Because transactional distance in online distance learning will always […]

Development of Youth Digital Citizenship Scale and Implication for Educational Setting

Digital citizens need comprehensive knowledge and technological accessibility to the internet and digital world and teachers have a responsibility to lead them to become digital citizens. However, existing Digital Citizenship Scales contain too broad ranges and do not precisely focus on the target students, so teachers do not have clear criteria for facilitating young people […]