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Higher education faculty have numerous responsibilities that are not limited to instruction of classes. While it is well established in literature that faculty have a diverse set of responsibilities that extend well beyond a 40-hour work week, this information has yet to be cohesively transferred into suggestions for institutions to utilize when promoting instructional efficiency. […]
Students attend the first sessions of your units and then disappear, some of them forever, and some of them have no clue what is going on or they work for other units’ assessments. When it comes to providing them with formative assessment, it is not always well received as it is perceived as extra work. […]
Crowdsourcing, as a digital process employed to obtain information, ideas, and solicit contributions of work, creativity, etc., from large online crowds stems from business, yet is increasingly used in research. Engaging with previous literature and a symposium on academic crowdsourcing this study explores the underlying assumptions about crowdsourcing as a potential academic research method and […]
Various institutions and scholars have proposed lists of skills likely to be needed in the next decade and beyond. [1, 2, 3] Interestingly, they do not include purely technical skills like programming but thinking (sense making, computational thinking, creativity, critical thinking), specific attitudes (design mindset, cognitive flexibility, adaptability, perseverance, agile working, ethics), and interaction with […]
For students to succeed in online learning, faculty must be encouraged to go back to class themselves. Campus Technology
There are three critical issues that are expanding the gap between the modern classroom and today’s digital tools eCampus News
Amazon Web Services expands its curriculum development partnership with Virginia’s community colleges and four-year universities. Inside Higher Ed
On October 1, 2019, COL and its partners, Vidiyal and Reddiarchatthiram Seed Growers Association in India, launched a massive open online course (MOOC) on corporate literacy. The content has been adapted from original materials developed by India’s National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development. Commonwealth of Learning
New approaches to network data analysis can help higher education IT staff deal with a myriad of new challenges created by IoT devices. EDUCAUSE Review
Dr. Saba: You have a wide range of experience in educational technology, program management and distance education. What attracted you to this field? Dr. Tobin: I started out as an English literature PhD, teaching composition and nineteenth-century literature courses. While I was working on my doctorate, I was hired by a two year college in […]