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It is a time of disruption, in politics and government, in many national economies and cultures. In the United States, disruption has also penetrated the accreditation space, with debates and differences about student achievement, access and affordability and transparency, topics also challenging quality assurance around the world. Higher education, accreditation and quality assurance are not […]
Linda Jorm Associate Vice Provost for Learning Technologies & DoIT Director of Academic Technology, University of Wisconsin-Madison. 2019 EDUCAUSE Leadership Award: Linda Jorn
At Distance-Educator.com we strive to keep you abreast of the latest news and developments in higher education and its relation with the world of work. New ideas in news items, however, may prop up at any time and very often not in chronological order. In “Connecting the Dots” we try to bring together recent news […]
In this paper, we review the literature on philanthropy in education to provide a larger context for the role that technology company foundations, such as the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and ChanZuckerberg LLC, are playing with respect to the development and implementation of personalized learning. We then analyze the ways that education magazines and […]
This article explores the writing processes of 22 English education scholars over the course of 23 months, resulting in the 2018 publication of an updated National Council of Teachers of English position statement, Beliefs for Integrating Technology into the English Language Arts Classroom. Through a qualitative approach, authors investigated the ways in which scholars (N […]
As the growth in technology enables academic institutions to offer online courses to students globally, it is essential for universities to provide quality services to meet the needs and expectations of learners. Student retention in online courses is one of the challenges facing universities today. This is an important concern and should be addressed. The […]
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 […]
The purpose of this paper is to describe how the introduction of new technologies has affected student support at the United Kingdom Open University (UKOU) particularly focusing on face-to-face tutorials and online tutorials, what this impact implies for open universities and in what direction the innovations toward the sustainability of open universities should proceed. Asian […]
Rebranding and leveraging IT projects within the library can help promote organizational change and aid in advancing the library as a learning organization. EDUCAUSE Review
The California Department of Education and the State Board of Education have launched #CADashboardWeek, which will run from Sept. 16-20, to publicize school and district data that has been made available to parents, students and educators, the agencies announced Monday. edscoop
