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Because traditional methods have proven insufficient in addressing the breadth of instructional delivery and course design methods, the university began a pilot project supporting online evaluation for distance education courses in spring 2003. This paper outlines the issues considered and challenges faced in the search to employ reliable and valid online student evaluation for distance […]
The School of Continuing and Professional Studies is planning a September launch for NYU Online, a new completely Web-based degree program, university officials announced last week. The program will offer Bachelor’s degrees for the same tuition as NYU’s traditional, classroom-based programs.Read the Full Story
SANTA MONICA, CA — (MARKET WIRE) — 02/15/2005 — CyberU, the leading provider of integrated on-demand enterprise software solutions for human capital management, and PLI-Corpedia, an eLearning company specializing in Internet-based compliance and ethics training, today announced the availability and integration of “Recognizing and Preventing Workplace Harassment – California Education Course,” into the Cornerstone OnDemand […]
These are tough decisions.The trendy apparel-store chain you work for has fought hard to secure a lucrative relationship with a popular recording artist, and the exclusive line of clothing that bears his name is sure to be a hit with young consumers, driving much-needed profits back to the chain. But there are issues: Critics say […]
The purpose of this study is to examine the educational impact of presenting various levels of computer-based, online feedback (no-feedback, knowledge-of-response, knowledge-of-correct-response, topic-contingent, and response-contingent) either alone or paired with human interaction in an independent, mastery learning environment. Results indicate that student learning is enhanced by human interaction but is not influenced by the various […]
“We must have the vision to see where higher education can take us in a future where both freedom and competition are on the move,” Secretary Spellings said. “This is a world defined less by where you live and more by what you know. We must find a way to give all Americans the skills […]
An interdisciplinary group led by Dartmouth researcher Michael Gazzaniga has received a $21.8 million National Science Foundation grant to establish the Center for Cognitive and Educational Neuroscience (CCEN), as part of NSF’s new Science and Learning Center (SLC) initiative. Researchers and students involved in the CCEN will work to understand the brain mechanisms of learning […]
ALS was founded in 2000 by Rick Oliver, a professor at Vanderbilt University’s Owen Graduate School of Management, with an investment from the college’s Chancellor Fund.Read the Full Story
But what do we really know about the communication patterns of FLOSS projects? How generalizable are the projects that have been studied? Is there consistency across FLOSS projects? Questioning the assumption of distinctiveness is important because practitioner–advocates from within the FLOSS community rely on features of social structure to describe and account for some of […]
This study used a content analytic framework (derived primarily from previous work of Anderson, Archer, Garrison, and Rourke) to analyze transcripts from eight case study discussions, four FTF and four ALN. While previous authors developed a model that studies cognitive, social, and teaching processes in ALN discussions, the current scheme also considers characteristics of the […]