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Examining Construct Validity of the Student Online Learning Readiness (SOLR) Instrument Using Confirmatory Factor Analysis

This study examines the construct validity of the Student Online Learning Readiness (SOLR) instrument. The SOLR instrument consists of 20 items to evaluate social competencies, communication competencies, and technical competencies in online learning. A large Midwestern university was selected to test the construct validity of the SOLR instrument. A total of 347 undergraduate students participated […]

Marginalized Urban Indigenous Youth and the Virtual World of Second Life: Understanding the Past and Building a Hopeful Future

A small independent high school in the Canadian West is using the affordances of the virtual world of Second Life to explore and reconstruct the colonial past of their students: marginalized urban Indigenous youth. The affordances of the virtual world make it possible to reconstruct the past, deconstruct the present and create a possible hope-filled […]

Designing Digital Badges to Improve Learning in Virtual Worlds

Digital badges are digital indicators of achievement that are issued in response to a user action within a virtual environment. While badges have been successful in multiple domains, they do not always achieve their purpose. Past research indicates that this is likely a function of specific badging design and how well the badging system integrates […]

MOOCs fail in their mission to disrupt higher education

The vast majority of learners on massive open online courses or MOOCs never return after their first year and low completion rates have not improved in more than six years. University World News

Criteria For Choosing LMSs and Interactive Media

8 Criteria For Choosing An LMS For Corporate Compliance Training Whether you are searching for a new Learning Management System or looking to take your first steps into digital and blended workplace learning, there are a number of factors to consider. As with any investment, it pays to shop around. But what is it you […]

Top 10 IT Issues, 2019: The Student Genome Project

The EDUCAUSE 2019 Top 10 IT Issues are focused on organizing, standardizing, and safeguarding data so that we can utilize it to address our most pressing priority: student success. EDUCAUSE Review

Building the digital future of education

The use of technology to improve the standard of and access to education has become ubiquitous across the sector. Although universities and educational institutions have moved away from a reliance on physical textbook and resource, they shouldn’t stop at going paperless. It’s essential that they are ambitious and keep their fingers on the pulse when […]

Is your college part of the the 21st Century Skills Badges initiative?

The 21st Century Skills Badges initiative, from Education Design Lab, is based on three years of research, design, and pilots and offers a suite of eight digital badges, often called microcredentials, along with a facilitator’s toolkit, to help educators and employers understand the skills students have cultivated. Education Design Lab partnered with 12 universities and […]

Download Report: The Future of Skills In the Age of the 4th Industrial Revolution

Human history is filled with examples of occupational transformation, but the rate at which it is occurring today is unprecedented. According to the World Economic Forum, 65 percent of today’s school children will graduate into jobs that do not yet exist and by 2020 more than a third of the desired skill sets of […]

Small Liberal Arts Colleges Are Sharing Online Courses

When Nathan Schertz, a 21-year old student at Eureka College, hit some relationship troubles last year that distracted him from his studies, his grades slipped. And he found himself needing to make up credits fast to stay on track academically. So the college offered him the chance to retake one of the course subjects online […]