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Abstract: This article describes instructor use of tablet computers for personal use, research activities and teaching practices within the Faculties of Science and Engineering at UOIT. The benefits of tablet use were evaluated on the basis of types of usage, personal and professional productivity and the “richness†of the overall computing experience. Major findings include […]
Students at Gallaudet University in Washington, DC, the only liberal arts university in the world for the deaf and hard of hearing, are benefiting from lecture capture software that includes closed captioning. That lets students view videos of lectures on demand, complete with text captions along the bottom of the screen.Read the Full Article
Online Nation: Five Years of Growth in Online Learning represents the fifth annual report on the state of online learning in U.S. higher education. This year’s study, like those for the previous four years, is aimed at answering some of the fundamental questions about the nature and extent of online education. Supported by the Alfred […]
New Mexico Tech’s distance education program has grown significantly since its beginning several years ago, said the vice president of academic affairs.Read the Full Article
As information technology leaders convened for the Educause meetings Thursday in Seattle, they talked about some of the same issues that are attracting attention in higher ed outside of technology circles: links to K-12, making courses more engaging and measuring what students learn.Read the Full Article
Students who take courses via interactive television (ITV) at Eastern Kentucky University’s extended campuses will soon enjoy the benefits of some powerful, new, state-of-the-art technology, thanks to a $307,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture and an additional $216,946 in matching funds from the University.Read the Full Article
In Fall 2002, I published “Where Do I List This on My CV? Considering the Values of Self-Published Web Sites.” Just about five years later, I was approached by the editors of Kairos to republish and revisit this article. As the abstract for the 2002 article described the piece then, “Given the high value that […]
Quality in online distance education has been a hot topic in the popular, professional, and academic literature during the past decade. This article describes an innovative response to the problem of assuring quality in sharable online courses encountered by MarylandOnline, a statewide consortium of 19 Maryland community colleges and four-year institutions. Phases of collaborative program […]
The first maxim is to view IT from the crow’s nest. The crow’s nest is a place high upon the ship’s tallest mast. A sailor would climb up the rigging to the crow’s nest, in order to view the horizon from that higher vantage point and look for enemy ships or breeching whales. For those […]
This 2007 ECAR research study is a longitudinal extension of the 2004, 2005, and 2006 ECAR studies of students and information technology. The study, which reports noticeable changes from previous years, is based on quantitative data from a spring 2007 survey and interviews with 27,846 freshman, senior, and community college students at 103 higher education […]