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Teaching in Graduate Distance Education: Perspectives on Evaluating Faculty Engagement Strategies.

To mitigate the effects of transactional distance, it is incumbent upon online instructors to intentionally and thoughtfully incorporate and implement strategies that will create a successful learning environment, keep learners motivated, and provide a rewarding learning experience where learners feel supported, valued and connected. The authors, both of whom are long-standing faculty coaches and instructors […]

Impact of Additional Early Feedback on Doctoral Capstone Proposal Approval

More than 40% of doctoral students are unable to complete their independent capstone research at the conclusion of their coursework, and of those who do complete the capstone, completion often takes longer than anticipated. In online universities, students are often successful during their structured course work, but become overwhelmed with the demands of their capstone […]

Impact of a Portfolio Program on Self-Assessment Skills Involving General Longitudinal Outcomes

Self-assessment is important in student and professional development. This study evaluated the impact of a structured electronic portfolio program that provided primarily global feedback on pharmacy students’ self-assessment skills related to five general outcomes over a two-year period. The self-assessed outcomes, common to many academic programs, were communication/cultural competence, critical thinking/problem solving, evidence-based practice, professionalism/leadership, […]

Changing the Narrative: New directions in online retention

The growth of online higher education has outpaced residential enrollments for the past six years [1] and adults are a significant population of online learners [2, 3]. While certainly concerns about the efficacy of learning online have not fully gone away, online courses, and often entire online degrees, are now an established part of the […]

Download Report: 2019 Horizon Report

EDUCAUSE is proud to continue the tradition of excellence begun by the New Media Consortium’s (NMC) work on the Horizon Report. The report serves as a reference and technology planning guide for educators, higher education leaders, administrators, policy makers, and technologists. his report profiles six key trends, six significant challenges, and six important developments in […]

New Online Academic Programs

Colleges begin programs in early childhood education, cybersecurity, strategic management, health data analytics and instructional design. Inside Higher Ed

Seeking a Shared Global Standard for Digital Credentials

For hundreds of years, universities and colleges have issued academic credentials on paper. But what would these credentials look like if they were designed today? This is the question a group of nine universities is looking to answer as part of an ambitious digital credential initiative that aims to create a worldwide standard for issuing, […]

New Frontiers of Adaptive Learning

Most of the publicized examples of adaptive learning focus on its use in improving student outcomes in STEM courses, but some universities are seeing promising examples in the humanities as well. For example, the University of Mississippi Department of Writing and Rhetoric is using adaptive learning to help first-year writing students grasp rhetorical concepts. Campus […]

Technology Strategy for Digital Transformation: Get Your Stakeholders on Board

In 2019, the EDUCAUSE Enterprise IT Program is examining the relationship between enterprise IT and the digital transformation of higher education. The second theme for the year is getting institutional stakeholders on board with a technology strategy that supports digital transformation. EDUCAUSE Review

How Clemson transformed its MBA program for the age of online learning

Clemson University has long offered an on-campus MBA program, but starting this fall, the South Carolina-based school is placing its bets on something a bit different: an ambitious new version of the program that will allow students to access the same curriculum virtually through online learning. And while taking classes online is certainly no new […]