School leaders across the country are grappling with an array of decisions forced on them by the COVID-19 pandemic. If you have closed schools, when should schools reopen? If schools remain closed for a long period, how do you use your resources to protect children and keep education going? Once the overarching decisions are made, […]
March 22, 2020 | Daily News, Higher Education, K-12
The Rice University-based publisher OpenStax announced Thursday that it will provide free teaching resources through the end of the spring semester to support faculty transitioning to online course delivery in response to the coronavirus pandemic. With over 300 universities transitioning to online learning to limit the spread of COVID-19, educators are relying on digital resources […]
March 22, 2020 | Daily News, Higher Education, Resources
The students’ re-enrollment can reflect as one of the indications of an educational institution’s service quality and student loyalty. The re-enrollment is identified by the condition that students enrolled in one semester would re-enroll in the next immediate semester. The main concern of this article is that there are many interrelated variables affecting students’ re-enrollment. […]
March 22, 2020 | Daily News, Higher Education, Student Experience
Considerable attention has been paid, in the recent past, to technology-enabled learning (TEL) and how digital technologies have been facilitating teachers, learners and trainers in transforming the ways they approach teaching-learning and development (Kirkwood & Price, 2016; Sankey & Mishra,2019). Institutions across the globe use TEL to ‘enhance’ the quality of learning and teaching with […]
March 22, 2020 | Daily News, Higher Education, Research, Technology
On March 17, 2020, the U.S. Department of Education (USDE) Office of Postsecondary Education issued a document titled Information for Accrediting Agencies Regarding Temporary Flexibilities Provided to Coronavirus Impacted Institutions or Accrediting Agencies. The guidance document, which suspends some federal regulations due to COVID-19 disruption to campuses and travel, is intended to provide both institutions […]
March 22, 2020 | Accreditation, Daily News, Governance, Higher Education
With the average shelf life of an employee’s skills at less than five years, it is imperative that organizations support their employees in staying current in new and emerging skills and in learning how to learn. Learning management systems, once seen as a one-size-fits all learning solution, have not effectively kept pace with wider technology […]
March 22, 2020 | Business, Daily News, Elearning, Learning Ecosystems
As the coronavirus and the respiratory disease it causes, COVID-19, took hold in the U.S., colleges rapidly began to move courses online and assess how the situation would stress their budgets. Taking instruction remote has short-term costs, especially for colleges that lack a robust online infrastructure. In the letter, the groups recommend the government provide […]
March 22, 2020 | Daily News, Governance, Higher Education, Resources
While technology-assisted learning has become commonplace in education, its applications are rarely examined along geopolitical and cultural perspectives that reveal certain shared and vastly distinct localized practices in evolving pedagogy and cultural dynamics. For developing countries such as Uzbekistan, collaborating virtually with a university in the U.S. may represent both a technological and socio-cultural challenge. […]
March 22, 2020 | Culture, Daily News, Higher Education, Inclusivity, Research
We examined the adoption of online teaching strategies by faculty members at a large midwestern research university who participated in a year-long learning community. The purpose of this study was twofold: 1) to investigate changes in teaching approaches resulting from a year-long e-learning professional development initiative; and 2) to understand the perceptions of factors that […]
March 22, 2020 | Daily News, Higher Education, Instructional Design, Online Facilitation, Resources
Remote sales teams, franchisees, eLearning content providers, and other members of your extended enterprise should have 24/7 access to online training tools. Namely, support resources that can help them align their work practices with your brand and learn about the latest products, as well as evaluate their own areas for improvement so that they can […]
March 22, 2020 | Business, Daily News, Elearning, Technology