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Desire2Learn’s Most Recent Acquisition, Wiggio, Makes Working in Groups Easy for Students Both Inside and Outside of the Classroom

Desire2Learn announces integration of Wiggio, the company’s most recent acquisition, into Desire2Learn Learning Suite. FUSION 2013, Boston, Mass., July 15, 2013 Desire2Learn Incorporated (“Desire2Learn”), a leading provider of innovative learning solutions, today announced it has integrated Wiggio, the company’s most recent acquisition, into Desire2Learn Learning Suite. To help make working in groups simple, Wiggio’s enterprise-class […]

Blackboard Announces New MOOC Platform

Las Vegas — Blackboard, a company that makes software that many colleges use to run their classroom and online courses, announced on Wednesday that it was expanding its support for MOOCs, though it is relatively late to the much-talked-about trend of massive open online courses. Wired Campus Full Article

Coursera, an Online Education Company, Raises Another $43 Million

Coursera, a year-old company offering free online courses, has raised another $43 million in venture capital from investors active in both domestic and international education. The New York Times Full Article

The Coming Crossroads in Higher Education: Remarks of U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan to the State Higher Education Executive Officers Association Annual Meeting, July 9, 2013

Contact: Press Office, (202) 401-1576, press@ed.gov It is a pleasure to join you today to speak about the nation’s higher education agenda. Before I begin my formal remarks, let me say that there is a lot going on right now on Capitol Hill. Because Congress has failed to agree on a solution, interest rates on […]

Learning Equity between Online and On-Site Mathematics Courses

This paper reports on a research study that focused on equity in learning as reflected in the final grades of online and on-site students from the same post-secondary mathematics course taught repeatedly over 10 semesters from Fall 2005 through Spring 2011. On-site students attended regular class sessions, while online students only attended an orientation session […]

Distribution of Feedback among Teacher and Students in Online Collaborative Learning in Small Groups

This study explores the characteristics and distribution of the feedback provided by the participants (a teacher and her students) in an activity organized inside a collaborative online learning environment. We analyse 853 submissions made by two groups of graduate students and their teacher (N1= 629 & N2=224) involved in the collaborative development of a rubric […]

Designing and Evaluating Tutoring Feedback Strategies for digital learning environments on the basis of the Interactive Tutoring Feedback Model

This paper describes the interactive tutoring feedback model (ITF-model; Narciss, 2006; 2008). The ITF-model conceptualizes formative tutoring feedback as a multidimensional instructional activity that aims at contributing to the regulation of a learning process in such a way that learners acquire or improve the competencies (i.e., conceptual and procedural knowledge as well as cognitive and […]

Analysis of feedback processes in online group interaction: a methodological model

The aim of this article is to present a methodological model to analyze students’ group interaction to improve their essays in online learning environments, based on asynchronous and written communication. In these environments teacher and student scaffolds for discussion are essential to promote interaction. One of these scaffolds can be the feedback. Research on feedback […]

Development of Reflective Thinking through Distance Teacher Education Programs at AIOU Pakistan

The current study aims to investigate the possibilities of developing reflective thinking among learners through distance education programs. The case of Allama Iqbal Open University (AIOU) Islamabad, Pakistan is examined to achieve this task. The study is based on Mezirow’s theory of reflective thinking, which divides thinking in four categories. The Questionnaire of Reflective Thinking […]

Instructional Design in Distance Education: An Overview

Farhad Saba, Ph. D. Founder and Editor, Distance-Educator.com In this series of articles, I presented several issues that are challenging the future of higher Education. I also have been providing a systems approach for planning and managing distance education systems, as each educational institution is different and should develop its unique strategy and plan to […]