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Adobe: Simple But Powerful Creativity, Presentation, and Storytelling Tools FREE for Teachers and Students Apple: Apple brings Everyone Can Code to schools serving blind and deaf students nationwide Blackboard: Blackboard Launches New Website Accessibility Solution Desire2Learn: D2L Launches Emerald Release — the next Generation of Brightspace
Today, D2L launches its Emerald Release — the newest version of its Brightspace LMS — which provides an intuitive social and mobile-friendly teaching and learning experience for people around the world. Social features that engage and delight users include the Activity Feed, which lets you embed social content like TedEx or YouTube videos and images […]
Less than a year after Rice University in Houston announced plans to introduce a new online master of business administration with program management company 2U, the institution said it would work with the company to deliver master’s-level “online short courses” in business and management as well. Campus Technology
WASHINGTON, May 17, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — Building on its longstanding commitment to accessibility, Blackboard Inc. today announced the launch of Blackboard Ally for Web, leveraging the company’s groundbreaking technology to support institutions and organizations looking to improve the accessibility of their public-facing websites. Currently being implemented by hundreds of institutions, Blackboard Ally first launched last year […]
Apple is teaming up with leading educators for blind and deaf communities across the US to bring accessible coding to their schools. Beginning this fall, schools supporting students with vision, hearing or other assistive needs will start teaching the Everyone Can Code curricula for Swift, Apple’s powerful and intuitive programming language. Apple
If you’re looking to create narrated videos, printed materials, graphics, or writing assignments that students can quickly and easily turn in, you want Spark. Adobe Spark
Following the U.S. Senate vote to restore net neutrality regulations, Stanford scholar Gregory Rosston offers his perspective about the future of the internet. In December 2017, the FCC repealed “Title II” regulations that classified the internet as a public utility. Under these rules, internet service providers (ISPs) were required to treat all data equally and […]
Evaluating theImpact of Engaged Philosophy in the Online Classroom: Lessons Learned As an Oregon State Ecampus Research Fellow, I designed and initiated a research study thDowat aimed to: 1) investigate tools and techniques for engaged, experiential online learning with undergraduate philosophy students and 2) propose discipline- specific criteria for evaluating the impact of these pedagogical […]
Research shows that most online learning schools today aren’t improvingoutcomes for their students. Are there online learning environments that can actually help studentsflourish? If so, how might these environments differ from what we’recurrently doing? McREL International
Although collaboration skills are highly valued by employers, convincing students that collaborative learning activities are worthwhile, and ensuring that the experience is both useful and enjoyable, are significant challenges for educators. This paper addresses these challenges by exploring students’ and tutors’ experiences of a group project where part-time distance learners collaborate online to create a […]