16 Open Learning Resources that Go Beyond the Textbook
The concept of “open learning” encompasses far more than what’s found in a textbook. These sources provide other kinds of resources that will boost your students’ learning. Campus Technology
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Are national universities on higher ed’s horizon?
A new report takes a look at the future of higher education–a future could include national universities and increased artificial intelligence Grant Thornton’s The State of Higher Education in 2019 identifies a handful of trends and issues that are either emerging or expected to emerge in the coming year–and the biggest of those is the […]
How MOOCs Make Money
In 2011, when a few Stanford (CA) professors experimented with delivering three of the university’s most popular computer science courses online for free, Dhawal Shah signed up for “Introduction to Artificial Intelligence.” The idea of Stanford opening up its top-caliber education to people who lacked access appealed to Shah. And besides, he needed a boost […]
Social Network Analysis and Online Learning Communities in Higher Education: A Systematic Literature Review
This paper presents the results of a systematic literature review which sets out to explore the use of social network analysis (SNA) for investigating online learning communities in higher education. The impetus for such a review originated from an increased interest by researchers in SNA techniques to investigate interactions and learning engagement in various types […]
Which image types do universities tweet?
Universities use social media to attract prospective staff, students, and funding; to engage with current students; and to support teaching and learning. Images on social media are becoming particularly dominant, and whilst Twitter is not primarily an image-based social media service, nonetheless 36 percent of links shared on Twitter point to an image. This research […]
An Investigation of the Relationship Between Grades and Learning Modes in an Introductory Research Methods Course
Education researchers have conducted studies on the relationship of learning mode to student performance, but few studies have evaluated pass rate, grade distribution and student withdrawal rate in an introductory research methods course. In this study, researchers examined 2,097 student grades from the 2015-2016 academic year to determine if such a relationship existed. In this […]
Responsibility Centered Management (RCM) and Online Social Work Education: Navigating a Changing Financial Landscape
Online programs are often viewed as a cost-efficient strategy for increasing revenue for shrinking university budgets but this may not be an accurate assessment. Responsibility Centered Management (RCM) is a budgeting model that is purported to increase efficient delivery of academic programs. As RCM budgeting models have been embraced, many universities have launched online education […]
Competency‐based education: An evolutionary higher education business model
As new education models emerge in the higher education landscape, constituents and stakeholders increasingly demand greater evidence of the return on investment to the institution. To date, little research has explored and reported the financial underpinnings and outcomes for new models such as Competency‐based Education (Desrochers & Staisloff, 2016, http://rpkgroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/rpkgroup_cbe_business_model_report_20161018.pdf). This case study explores and […]
Nonverbal Communication in Text-Based, Asynchronous Online Education
Does nonverbal communication exist in asynchronous, text-based online education? It is commonly believed that it does not due to the absence of body language and paralanguage. An examination of the definitions and forms of nonverbal cues suggests the possibility for some of them to be transmitted through asynchronous, text-based online human interactions. To explore the […]
The seven voices of information literacy (IL)
The purpose of this research was to discover the conceptions of information literacy (IL) prevalent across multiple stakeholder groups in an international middle school community. The research involved students, parents, teachers, librarians, IT personnel, administrators and leadership in recorded focus group discussions. Using a phenomenographic approach the qualitatively different ways that stakeholder groups understood IL […]