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The Changing Pedagogical Landscape: In Search of Patters in Policies and Practices of New Modes of Teaching and Learning

The cases in this study reveal numerous positive incentives for stimulating innovation in education. Next to an institutional strategy plan on education and leadership for an innovative climate, the development of expertise on blended teaching and learning within the institutions and the continuous development of staff are seen as essential incentives. The examples of various […]

Gale’s Digital Scholar Lab Removes Barriers to Entry into Digital Scholarship, Streamlining Workflows, Driving Visualizations and Discoveries

FARMINGTON HILLS, Mich. – September 11, 2018 – Gale, a Cengage company, is changing the way scholars and students access and analyze raw text data. Gale’s Digital Scholar Lab, a cloud-based research environment launched by the company today, allows students and researchers to apply natural language processing tools to raw text data (OCR) from Gale […]

An Introduction to Efficacy Research in Education

Helping schools, colleges and educators make smarter decisions How can we prove that learning technology works? Randomized controlled trials are considered the gold standard in efficacy research, yet they are costly to implement, take years to complete, raise ethical issues, and are difficult to scale in size. Can we democratize the way we look […]

Sequence Analysis in Distributed Interactive Learning Environments: Visualization and Clustering of Exploratory Behavior

Constructivist learning posits that learners should construct their own meaning and organization of knowledge through exploration. Web-based distributed interactive learning (DIL) environments are a type of information and communications technology that supports learners in exploring learning materials. Although educators can access learners’ navigational paths on DIL websites, the exploratory nature of such paths cannot be […]

Study Finds Even Tech-Savvy Educators Struggle to Find Reliable Research on EDTECH

Washington, DC — Ninety-one percent of educators rely heavily on general web searches and nearly half rely on vendor reports for information on education technology tools, according to a new survey of tech-savvy teachers and administrators conducted by the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) and the Jefferson Education Exchange (JEX). Jefferson Education Exchange

Download Research Report: E-Learning Research Report 2017 Analysis of the main topics in research indexed articles

E-Learning Research Report 2017 Analysis of the main topics in research indexed articles Executive summary What do the articles on e-learning published in academic journals during 2017 talk about? To answer this question we analysed all the impact publications made during this period, with the aim of drawing a map that is useful for seeing […]

Goal Orientation and Academic Performance in Adult Distance Education

Research has shown the importance of goal orientation in predicting academic performance for children, adolescents, and college students in traditional educational settings. Studies on this relationship within adult distance education, however, are lacking. To fill this gap, the present study was conducted to investigate the relationship between goal orientation and academic performance in adult distance […]

Where you ask the questions – BBC and OU launch new ‘citizen inquiry’ website

What is citizen inquiry? Citizen inquiry goes a step further than research led by academics in which people have relatively passive involvement. It helps members of the public in learning to be scientists – by proposing, running and sharing their own science investigations. Open University

‘Lessons Learnt’: the student view in the #VLEIreland [Virtual Learning Environment] project

This paper offers an overview of general results and of longitudinal aspects of the data collected to date from student populations which generated from the #VLEIreland project. We argue how results shed light on common misconceptions around VLE usage, and what VLEs can offer from a pedagogical perspective. Building on previously published research results; this […]

Mapping the open education landscape: citation network analysis of historical open and distance education research

The term open education has recently been used to refer to topics such as Open Educational Resources (OERs) and Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs). Historically its roots lie in civil approaches to education and open universities, but this research is rarely referenced or acknowledged in current interpretations. In this article the antecedents of the modern […]

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