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I teach a course in marine biology at a college in central Maine. Marine biology is one of those whizzbang courses that students are attracted to because of all the talk of sharks, coral reefs, and dolphin communication. But there’s also the fascinating “low end” stuff: exotic invertebrates that look like little more than inanimate, […]
What’s the best argument against those who say video games are destroying society? That’s the first discussion topic fielded by a new online center about the intersection of video games and “human values.â€Read the Full Article
he Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announced plans Tuesday to focus its time — and hundreds of millions of new dollars — on college completion, particularly at community colleges.Read the Full Article
This action research study describes a course redesign using scholarly research in two ways. Traditional disciplinary research was used to inform the design of the curriculum, and SoTL was used to measure the success of the course design in achieving its objectives for student learning. Read the Full Article
Facilitating learning online requires an evolving set of teaching skills that embrace Web 2.0 technologies. Asynchronous Audio Communication (AAC) may bridge the virtual “communication divide†between instructors and students. The purpose of this study was multi-faceted: first, to assess students’ and instructors’ satisfaction with asynchronous audio instructor feedback as a teaching strategy in the online […]
Information technology has been an important part of higher education since the development of the lantern slide in the mid-1800s. However, occasions in which the academy has been transformed by technology are rare. Viewed in a historical perspective, these occasions can be considered as a series of three epochs: the online public-access catalog epoch; the […]
There is a sharp increase in the number of students enrolling in online courses at the University of Maine. Professors are offering more of their courses online, along with different courses that are not available in normal lecture style.Read the Full Article
Law school was a distant dream when Heather Brown finished her undergraduate degree in business administration at Old Dominion University in 1986. Read the Full Article
The emergence of the networked information economy is unleashing two powerful forces. On one hand, easy access to high-speed networks is empowering individuals. People can now discover and consume information resources and services globally from their homes. Further, new social computing approaches are inviting people to share in the creation and edification of information on […]
This study adopted a qualitative case-study approach to examine the attitudes, experiences, and perceptions of undergraduate students who were enrolled in an online, collaborative learning course at a Ghanaian private university. Data sources included surveys, student and instructor journal entries, email records, individual interviews, and Web-server logs. The study found that the students did not […]