Using technology to fight cheating in online college education
High-tech methods have evolved as schools look to stay one step ahead of students eCampus News Full Article
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Rich Media e-Compendiums: A New Tool for Enhanced Learning in Higher Education
Electronically supported learning has increasingly been introduced and accepted into the academic community over recent decades, and a variety of new digital learning tools have been developed to serve students both for distance education and on-campus blended learning. To serve our distance education nursing students, we recently developed unique rich media e-compendiums, based on a […]
Developing Civic Agency in an International Videoconference: Reflecting on Audience and Public Voice in Participatory Media
This article presents findings from a multisite case study that focused on three international videoconferences, which involved secondary students discussing controversial social issues. As a learning experience, the videoconferences helped students better understand their use of participatory media, authentic discussion, and public voice. Findings suggested that the students’ engagement in dialogue with a diverse audience […]
APLU’s Institutional Consortium Initiative to aid adoption of personalized learning
These days when you conduct a search on the Internet, search engines can suggest what you might be looking for before you have finished typing your search terms. When you are making an online purchase, the vendor offers tantalizing suggestions for other products you might like to buy. These are now common ways your experiences […]
Gamification: The Latest Buzzword and the Next Fad
The term gamification seems to be the latest buzzword in the learning realm. After the Virtual Worlds and Web 2.0 fads, gamification seems to be the latest trend. Every learning related journal, magazine, and blog seems to have the need to associate their name with the term, praising the merits of this “technology” in making […]
New online learning tool brings ‘the crowd’ into homework assignments
In an effort to bring a more human dimension to the online-education experience, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Associate Professor Rob Miller has developed a new computer system that will help provide students with feedback on their homework assignments and create more interaction between students, teachers and alumni. MIT Press Release
Beginner’s Guide to Responsive Web Design
Whether you’re a beginner or a seasoned web professional, creating responsive designs can be confusing at first, mostly because of the radical change in thinking that’s required. As time goes on, responsive web design is drifting away from the pool of passing fads and rapidly entering the realm of standard practice. In fact, the magnitude […]
The Future of Predictive Analytics in Higher Ed
Colleges and universities have been under increasing pressure from President Obama to graduate students more quickly — and graduate more of them. Center for Digital Education Full Article
One example of industrial e-learning as “on the web” not “of the web”
There’s a push on at my current institution’s central L&T folk to develop a minimum course site standard. Some minimum set of services, buttons etc. that will achieve the nirvana of consistency. Everything will be the same. The Weblog of (a) David Jones Read the blog