Will AI be a bane or boon for education?
K-12 and higher ed need to rethink their structures to prepare for the arrival of artificial intelligence in education, experts say. edscoop
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Consider an Interdisciplinary Online Bachelor’s Degree
Online degrees like integrated studies, liberal arts and interdisciplinary social sciences can be good options for working adults. U. S. News & World Report
Download Report: Projections of Education Statistics to 2026
Projections of Education Statistics to 2026 is the 45th in a series of publications initiated in 1964. This publication provides national-level data on enrollment, teachers, high school graduates, and expenditures at the elementary and secondary level, and enrollment and degrees at the postsecondary level for the past 15 years and projections to the year 2026. […]
Engagement Matters: Student Perceptions on the Importance of Engagement Strategies in the Online Learning
Student engagement increases student satisfaction, enhances student motivation to learn, reduces the sense of isolation, and improves student performance in online courses. This survey-based research study examines student perception on various engagement strategies used in online courses based on Moore’s interaction framework. One hundred and fifty five students completed a 38-item survey on learner-to-learner, learner-to-instructor, […]
An Online Engagement Framework for Higher Education
Student engagement is understood to be an important benchmark and indicator of the quality of the student experience for higher education; yet the term engagement continues to be elusive to define and it is interpreted in different ways in the literature. This paper firstly presents a short review of the literature regarding online engagement in […]
One University’s Experience Partnering with an Online Program Management (OPM) Provider: A Case Study
University and college administrators frequently choose to develop and implement online programs with the help of for-profit companies known as online program management (OPM) providers that specialize in the development and implementation of online programs. This paper reports on the partnership of a private university in the Western United States and OPM provider in the […]
The open corpus challenge in eLearning
Learning has transcended into a life-long endeavor in the information age. It is no longer restricted to confines of formal classrooms. Consequently, a student is not restricted to traditional learning resources like teachers, textbooks or printed content. Digital resources available on the Internet form a very significant component of self-learning. Copious volumes of learning resources […]
Exploring four decades of research in Computers & Education
A content analysis of abstracts and titles of 3674 full papers in Computers & Educationpublished between 1976 and 2016 was conducted in order to a) identify and analyze their thematic and conceptual flow, b) how these reflected the evolving technologies and theories and c) how the research topics and concepts semantically related to each other. […]
Presidents Insecure on Digital Learning
Many campus leaders feel underprepared for the innovation era — but there’s room for them to grow into it. Inside Higher Ed
States Take a Look at Online Learning Prices
Debate over the actual cost and value of online education continues to polarize participants. Meanwhile, state legislatures are looking for ways to cut costs for students. Inside Higher Ed