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
Scholarly research has indicated that technology adoption to facilitate blended learning promotes the academic success of many different types of students and improves the quality of existing educational offerings. To understand how technology enhances learning, surveys queried the faculty and students of a statewide community college system. The results indicated widespread technology use among the […]
January 24, 2021 | Daily News, Faculty, Faculty Development, Higher Education, Learners, Learning Design, Learning Management Systems, Online Learning
This study aims to understand factors that affect the behavioural intention of manufacturing engineers in Malaysia to use e-learning in the workplace. Two hundred usable online questionnaires were collected from respondents who were engineers in Malaysian manufacturing companies. The data were analyzed using SPSS and Smart PLS version 3.2.6. Results supported all direct relationships except […]
January 24, 2021 | Business, Daily News, Elearning
As the adoption of open educational resources (OER) continues to increase, instructors have started using these resources for more than simply delivering content. Open pedagogy is a term used to describe a range of instructional practices that often incorporate OER into the learning process. This study examined student perceptions of two approaches to open pedagogy—student […]
January 17, 2021 | Daily News, Higher Education, Learners, Open Access, Open Education, Open Educational Resources, Open Learning
Change management processes and learning adaptations that accompany quality assurance (QA) in higher education are an understudied phenomenon. This article describes a first-tier, phenomenological qualitative research study on the usability of the Continuum of Excellence in Quality Assurance (CEQA) model as a tool that institutions might use to identify, assess, and strategically embed institution-wide processes […]
January 17, 2021 | Accreditation, Assessment, Daily News, Higher Education, Management
Innovative information and communication technologies have reformed higher education from the traditional way to smart learning. Smart learning applies technological and social developments and facilitates effective personalized learning with innovative technologies, especially smart devices and online technologies. Smart learning has attracted increasing research interest from the academia. This study aims to comprehensively review the research […]
January 17, 2021 | Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, Daily News, Higher Education, Instructional Design, Learning Design
Remote Learning Is Here to Stay Results from the First American School District Panel Survey School districts in the United States have approached reopening public schools during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic in notably different ways. The authors of this report developed a national picture of school districts’ needs and approaches to school reopenings […]
January 17, 2021 | Daily News, K-12, Policy, Remote Learning, Reports & White Papers
Online learning has helped rescue higher education from the pandemic and from natural disasters, wars and untold disasters. Will it now inject higher ed into the fourth industrial revolution? Inside Higher Ed
January 11, 2021 | Daily News, Governance, Higher Education, Policy
Three leaders in the Initiative in Ethics and Transformative Technologies at Seattle University talk about digital ethics and their work in the intersection between technology and ethics. EDUCAUSE Review
January 11, 2021 | Culture, Daily News, Digital Literacy, Ethics, Governance, Higher Education