ASU: Laser-Focused on Ensuring the Current Learning Experience; Sights Set on Designs for the Future

We’re happy to be catching up with Kyle Bowen for the first time since his move to Arizona State University in February 2020 to assume his new post in the University Technology Office as the executive director of ASU’s Learning Experience Group. Here, we learn how the university can continue to offer students the experiences […]

September 21, 2020 | Daily News, Higher Education, Online Learning, Policy

Download Report: Global development of AI-based education

Artificial intelligence (AI) is accelerating the integration of information technology into education, providing support or even alternative approaches for practioners in the industry. AI-based education in the future will be driven by the use of data, intensive technology application, integrated innovation, and service optimization. Deloitte

September 20, 2020 | Adpative Systems, Artificial Intelligence, Competency Based Education, Daily News, Data Mining, Digital Media, Higher Education, K-12, Reports & White Papers

Are E-Texts the Future of Distance Education? Investigating Online Students’ Open Resource Preferences

At a private university, a correlational survey design was implemented to assess students’ perceptions towards Open Educational Resources (OER) before experiencing an open course design initiative and to subsequently provide stakeholder feedback for guiding pedagogical decisions. The Student Textbook Survey was employed to determine if interest in electronic texts could predict with statistical significance student […]

September 18, 2020 | Daily News, Digital Media, Higher Education

Digital Transformation: It’s Time

Digital transformation can help higher education meet three unavoidable challenges ahead: mounting financial pressures, changes in the college experience, and ongoing uncertainty. It’s time to think differently. EDUCAUSE Review

September 17, 2020 | Daily News, Digital Classroom, Digital Literacy, Digital Media, Governance, Higher Education, Innovation

Coming Together as a Research Community to Support Educators and Students in K-12 Online and Emergency Remote Settings

In the midst of a global pandemic, our work specific to the field of K-12 online and blended learning has never been more relevant or important. Teachers all over the U.S. and globally are faced with the difficult challenge of working to continue remote learning opportunities for their students. Parents are realizing the many challenges […]

September 16, 2020 | Blended Learning, Daily News, K-12, Online Learning, Teachers, Teaching

Antecedents of Student Loyalty in Open and Distance Learning Institutions: An Empirical Analysis

The purpose of this research is to examine the relationship between factors leading to student loyalty in open and distance learning universities. Specifically, this research explores the relationship between perceived service quality, perceived e-service quality, and university image as mediators of student loyalty in Open University Malaysia (OUM). Data were collected from 16 OUM learning […]

September 15, 2020 | Daily News, Higher Education, Learners, Open Education, Open Learning

Download Report: Revisiting the Potential Uses of Media in Children’s Education

In 1966, Joan Ganz Cooney presented her vision for the show in a report to the Carnegie Corporation of New York. Built on a foundation of research and interviews with cognitive psychologists, educators, and media professionals, “The Potential Uses of Television in Preschool Education” proposed to harness the power of television, still a relatively new […]

September 13, 2020 | Daily News, Digital Literacy, Digital Media, Instructional Design, K-12

New Book: Review of “Transforming Universities with Digital Distance Education” By Dr. Mark Nichols

Nichols, M. (2020). Transforming universities with digital distance education: The future of formal learning. New York, NY: Routledge. Reviewed by: Farhad Saba, Professor Emeritus of Educational Technology, San Diego State University, Founder, Distance-Educator.com Dr. Mark Nichols’ book provides a fresh look at the intersection between management and teaching roles of higher education at a critical […]

September 13, 2020 | Daily News, New Books

Quantum Computing for the Next Generation of Computer Scientists and Researchers

Travis Humble is a distinguished scientist and director of the Quantum Computing Institute at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. The institute is a lab-wide organization that brings together all of ORNL’s capabilities to address the development of quantum computers. Humble is also an academic, holding a joint faculty appointment at the University of Tennessee, where he […]

September 11, 2020 | Daily News, Higher Education, K-12, Technology

Exploring collaboration in online group based assessment contexts: Undergraduate Business Program

Focussing on a specific higher education online learning environment (OLE), this study aims to investigate and analyse instructional designs that employ Positive Interdependence, Individual Accountability, Teaching Presence, Authenticity and Group Skills Development as educational strategies to mitigate group work issues and subsequently encourage collaborative group work. Group work is a challenging learning space for both participants […]

September 7, 2020 | Assessment, Collaborative Learning, Daily News, Higher Education, Instructional Design