Collaborative learning offers benefits but there is insufficient information on how students perceive specific digital tools supporting collaborative learning and whether there are content-related differences in students’ perceptions. Here, we utilised Padlet to mediate collaborative learning amongst undergraduate students from two distinct disciplines, Dentistry and Bioscience to examine students’ perceptions of Padlet-mediated learning and identify […]
February 14, 2021 | Collaborative Learning, Daily News, Digital Media, Higher Education, Instructional Design, K-12
Augmented reality (AR) as an emerging technology has gradually been incorporated into educational contexts; however, the cases that incorporate AR into early childhood contexts are underrepresented and especially scant in the literacy domain. Aiming to measure the impact of AR on early childhood learning and motivation in the literacy domain, this study brought an application […]
February 14, 2021 | Augmented Reality, Daily News, K-12
The literature indicates that approximately 50% of those who seek a doctoral education complete the degree. Research indicates that persistence is one of the key issues that students struggle with and negatively impacts their ability to graduate. Other factors include the ability to maintain enrollment; topic selection; and ability to maintain a dissertation supervisor (Seagram, […]
February 14, 2021 | Completion, Daily News, Higher Education, Learner Support Services, Learners
The increasing cost of textbooks has created a demand for no cost/low cost learning resources for students. The University System of Georgia, through their Affordable Learning Grants has supported the development of no cost/low cost course transformation activities. Faculty at Clayton State University (CSU) have been engaged in the development of a number of Open […]
February 14, 2021 | Daily News, Higher Education, Instructional Design, K-12, Open Source
Higher education’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic has ignited the need to improve student success in high-priority courses and to improve equity for Black, Latinx, Indigenous, poverty-affected, and first-generation learners. The 2020 spring and summer terms catalyzed a continuous improvement strategy that required educators to leverage flexible learning environments, including hyflex, hybrid, fully online, and […]
February 5, 2021 | Daily News
Dr. Saba: You have been helping seminaries and other faith-based institutions to become robust educators at a distance for a long time. What attracted you to this work? Dr. Peterson: Distance education is a practical application of theological curriculum to self and God’s world according to biblical standards. And it requires extensive and consistent logistics. I believe […]
February 4, 2021 | Competency Based Education, Daily News, Exclusive Interviews, Higher Education, Instructional Design
The present study examined whether there is a difference in comprehension when reading from computer-based text versus reading from paper-based text and whether there is any benefit from the ability to take notes and highlight text while reading. In two experiments, students’ reading times and comprehension scores were compared between electronic text and paper text […]
January 31, 2021 | Daily News, Higher Education, K-12, Learning Design
The Covid-19 pandemic forced many American schools to hastily transition to online learning. I assess how the online learning experience of students enrolled in brick and mortar schools that transitioned to online learning in Spring 2020 compared to the experience of students who were already enrolled in virtual schools when the pandemic began. Absent formal […]
January 31, 2021 | Assessment, Brick and Mortar, Daily News, K-12, Online Learning
Ambitious Mashups: Reflections on a Decade of Cyberlearning Research This report reflects on progress from over eight years of research projects in the cyberlearning community. The community involved computer scientists and learning scientists who received NSF awards to investigate the design of more equitable learning experiences with emerging technology—focusing on developing the learning theories and […]
January 31, 2021 | Daily News, Digital Media, Innovation, Instructional Design, K-12, Management
At the Christensen Institute, we’ve spent the last decade studying trends in online and blended learning out of interest in their potential to enable student-centered learning. Yet in ways we never anticipated, COVID-19 brought these modalities to the forefront. As this new reality unfolds, we continue to document both the challenges and the innovations happening […]
January 24, 2021 | COVID-19, Daily News, K-12, Reports & White Papers
