Online social presence supports student learning by making group interactions more appealing and has become a central concept in computer-mediated communication. However, questions remain over how social presence is presented in a mobile instant messaging (MIM)-facilitated environment and to what extent MIM can afford social presence compared to a threaded discussion forum. This study offers […]
May 3, 2020 | Daily News, Higher Education, mLearning
Mobile technology has significant potential to support learning and teaching in English. However, few studies attempt to explore current use by students and faculty members of mobile technologies to facilitate English language learning and teaching in Saudi Arabia. Even fewer studies capture descriptions of current use in the words of these users. The present study […]
May 3, 2020 | Daily News, mLearning
Might high-touch, residential colleges be better off tweaking the synchronous instruction they’ve done this spring rather than making a bigger shift if campuses are still closed to students in the fall? One campus official makes that case. Inside Higher Ed
May 2, 2020 | Daily News, Higher Education
The EDUCAUSE Enterprise IT Program asked three corporate members to share their advice about the ways AI and machine learning fit with higher education, as well as ethical considerations when using these technologies. EDUCAUSE Review
May 2, 2020 | Artificial Intelligence, Daily News, Higher Education
A university professor looks into how remote and online learning is impacting Gen Z–research that has implications for teaching during COVID-19 eCampus News
May 2, 2020 | Daily News, Higher Education, Learners
While EducationSuperHighway recently reported that the classroom connectivity gap was “now closed,” with 99 percent of schools on fiber, that didn’t take into account that school would move home in a time of coronavirus. The latest reporting by the Federal Communications Commission, found that the number of people lacking a connection of at least 25 […]
April 30, 2020 | Daily News, K-12
As people work from home during the COVID-19 pandemic and spend more time thinking about their personal safety and security, home gardening has grown in popularity, said Timothy McDermott, an extension educator in agriculture and natural resources at The Ohio State University. edscoop
April 30, 2020 | Daily News, Higher Education, New Programs
Doing school work remotely presents some unique challenges. For one, teachers can’t necessarily see how a student is accomplishing class work and may therefore make faulty assumptions about how it was done; and two, the education technology that facilitates online learning collects data on the student and the interactions, frequently without the student even knowing, […]
April 30, 2020 | Daily News, Higher Education, Learners, Online Proctoring
With online learning becoming a more viable option for teachers to develop their expertise, our report shares one such effort focused on improving the teaching of statistics. We share design principles and learning opportunities in an online course developed specifically to serve as a wide-scale online professional development opportunity for educators, thus deemed as a […]
April 26, 2020 | Daily News, Faculty, Faculty Development, Teaching
Online course facilitation is critical to the success of online courses. Instructors use various facilitation strategies in online courses to engage students. One hundred instructors were surveyed on their perception of helpfulness of twelve different facilitation strategies used in online courses to enhance instructor presence, instructor connection, engagement and learning. Instructors’ timely response to questions […]
April 26, 2020 | Daily News, Discussion Forum, Faculty, Faculty Development
