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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
For many in the higher education community, the notion that nearly every educator would all at once be delivering their courses online seemed improbable, if not impossible. But here we are. In just the span of a few weeks, as a result of the rapidly spreading coronavirus, almost every postsecondary institution has either closed or […]
September 6, 2020 | Daily News, Faculty, Faculty Development, Higher Education, Instructional Design, Online Learning, Online Teaching
The free availability of online machine translation (OMT) on the Internet via computers, tablets and smartphones makes it convenient for use by language students of all levels. Google Translate has been widely listed as an independent language learning (ILL) resource and we cannot deny its role for ongoing education. We are aware of the fact […]
September 6, 2020 | Daily News, Higher Education, K-12, Language Learning, Machine Translation
