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Helping doctoral students crack the publication code: An evaluation and content analysis of the Australasian Journal of Educational Technology

Getting published in an academic journal is no easy feat, especially for doctoral students and English as a second language speakers, seeking to publish in English. Considering the relatively low acceptance rate for educational technology journals, this article seeks to provide guidance by following the framework of rigour, impact, and prestige (West & Rich, 2012) […]

Complexity: A Leader’s Framework for Understanding and Managing Change in Higher Education

Complex adaptive systems offer higher education leaders a framework for understanding dramatic systemic change as well as approaches to engaging, managing, and driving change. EDUCAUSE Review

An inferior source? Quantitatively analysing the production and revision of five technology-enhanced learning-related terms on Wikipedia

This article analyses five technology-enhanced learning-related terms on Wikipedia, assessing their usefulness in relation to academic journal articles concerning the same terms. Data were obtained about the word lengths of the Wikipedia articles, the numbers of Wikipedia edits and numbers of academic journal publications over the first 5 years after the creation of the first […]

Interview with a Learning Scientist: Bob Ubell of NYU

Bob Ubell is Vice Dean Emeritus at the NYU School of Engineering, and Dr. Robert Feldman is Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst – and he is also the Chair of the McGraw-Hill Learning Science Advisory Board. The conversation between Bob and Robert ranges from benefits and criticisms of […]

We still trust in Google, but less than 10 years ago: an eye-tracking study

Introduction. The purpose of this study is to replicate a study from 2007, which found that student users trust in Google’s ability to rank results more than in their own relevance judgements. Method. In a between-subjects experiment using eye-tracking methodology, participants (n=25) worked on search tasks where the results ranking on search engine results pages […]

Testing Google Scholar bibliographic data: Estimating error rates for Google Scholar citation parsing

We present some systematic tests of the quality of bibliographic data exports available from Google Scholar. While data quality is good for journal articles and conference proceedings, books and edited collections are often wrongly described or have incomplete data. We identify a particular problem with material from online repositories. First Monday

How Will Unresolved Research Questions Get Answered?

Technology-enabled learning might be the future of education, but empirical studies haven’t caught up to the hype. Funding is tight and approaches are scattered. Inside Higher Ed

IU Libraries receives $1.2 million grant to develop ability to search digitized audiovisual files

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — Current access to text-based data and knowledge is unprecedented in human history. Now, enabled by a $1.2 million grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Indiana University Libraries is setting its sights on the next research frontier: hundreds of millions of hours of audiovisual content. Indiana University

New Project Aims to Use Artificial Intelligence to Enhance Teacher Training

(TNS) – WORCESTER – A new government-funded research project at Worcester Polytechnic Institute aims to use artificial intelligence in hopes of revolutionizing the way teachers evaluate their own performance in the classroom. Computer science professor Jacob Whitehill and his colleagues have received a $750,000, three-year grant from the National Science Foundation to develop the Automatic […]

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