Moving Into the Long Term
With some colleges and universities planning to continue online learning into the spring, students are now looking at over a year of learning from home. How will their well-being and academics be affected? Inside Higher Ed
Training University Teachers on the Use of the ePortfolio in Teaching and Assessment
Higher education is increasingly called upon to respond to the need for educational innovations promoting graduate employability and lifelong learning (European Higher Education Area, 2012, 2015). To achieve this, students must progressively become able to reflect both on their learning and their potential to improve and plan their own educational and professional development accordingly (D’Andrea […]
Missing the Process for the Product: Tension Between Instructor Goals and Student Perceptions of ePortfolios as Personalized Action Research
The creation of ePortfolios as a capstone project for school counselors-in-training has many benefits for the students, instructors, and program. However, there can be tension due to misalignments in goals and lived experiences of the ePortfolio even when the students find ePortfolios useful. This paper explores this tension between instructor goals and student perceptions of […]
A Participatory Approach to Developing Online Course Quality Standards in Health Professions Education
Online programs are growing in number, and their success and sustainability are dependent on the quality of the courses they offer. Online program administrators need to ensure the quality of individual courses and the program as a whole. While several course quality rubrics and evaluation instruments are available, administrators need to select an instrument that […]
Design, Development, Implementation, and Support (DDIS): Supporting Online Doctoral Candidates
This paper describes a protocol for an effective response to nontraditional online doctoral candidates based on the development of advanced cognitive processes, academic writing skills, and functional knowledge. The Design, Development, Implementation, and Support (DDIS) protocol is a three-phase protocol that integrates the requisite skills, concepts, and expertise with mentor and candidate response, interactions, technologies, […]
Research Libraries, Emerging Technologies—and a Pandemic
Given recent findings on how research libraries can leverage emerging technologies to support research and learning, what approaches should research libraries take now, during the pandemic, to maintain the most essential and valuable aspects of their work? EDUCAUSE Review
One professor’s obsessive quest to replicate the university classroom experience from his home studio
When the image of Sean Willems comes in over Zoom, he’s ebullient, sharp and engaging — not as much as he would be in person, but that’s not an option right now. edscoop
University of Evansville Expanding Online Learning with $1 Million Grant
Indiana’s University of Evansville is developing its online education and learning efforts thanks to a $1 million grant from Lilly Endowment. The university will use the funds to “implement major initiatives that will enhance the campus as well as the online learning environment,” according to a news announcement. Campus Technology
Download Report: Policies to Support Teachers’ Continuing and Professional Learning: A Conceptual Framework and Mapping of OECD [Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development] Data
While teachers’ initial education is key to ensuring that new teachers are prepared for their work, it is only one piece in the continuum of teachers’ professional growth. Continuing professional learning is vital for teachers to broaden and deepen their knowledge, keep up with new research, tools and practices and respond to their students’ changing […]
Prediction of student academic performance using Moodle data from a Further Education setting
Increasingly educational providers are being challenged to use their data stores to improve teaching and learning outcomes for their students. A common source of such data is learning management systems which enable providers to manage a virtual platform or space where learning materials and activities can be provided for students to engage with. This study […]
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