Posts Tagged ‘Educational Systems’

Purdue Global Nondisclosure Agreement Gone

Purdue University Global will stop using a contentious confidentiality agreement that critics say requires academics to waive their rights to course materials they create.   Inside Higher Ed

Smart Machines and Human Expertise: Challenges for Higher Education

Our machines and systems are increasingly smart and capable. They can work alongside humans as professional partners, augmenting human expertise and helping us find and develop talent. How will higher education respond as our professions change? EDUCAUSE Review 

Both Virtual and In-Person Courses Are Available for Learners in Henderson County N.C. This Fall

Educators and administrators across the U.S. often find themselves conflicted on the topic of online high school courses. On the one hand, online courses stand as a way to prepare learners for the academic and professional worlds they will soon enter where they will operate increasingly in a digital environment and use new technology. They’re also more flexible and, in […]

Download Studies: Advancing learning through smart learning analytics: a review of case studies

Advancing learning through smart learning analytics: a review of case studies Smart learning analytics (Smart LA) – i.e. the process of collecting, analyzing and interpreting data on how students learn – has great potentials to support opportunistic learning and offer better – and more personalized – learning experiences. The purpose of this paper is to […]

Increasing Online Information Retention: Analyzing the Effects

While online education offerings continue to grow in the higher education marketplace, issues of student achievement and course rigor remain challenges to the underlying instructional model and alignment with institutional missions. Pedagogically, instructors and course designers can mitigate these issues by leveraging technology to further enhance students’ cognition and knowledge retention within the online domain. […]

ABA expands online learning. Will schools take advantage?

If you live in Alaska, good luck going to law school. Alaska has no American Bar Association-accredited law school. If you live in Rapid City, S.D., good luck going to law school as well. The University of South Dakota School of Law is about 400 miles away. PreLaw

Download: 2018 NMC Horizon Report

2018 NMC Horizon Report Active Learning, Analytics, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Digital Literacy, Extended Reality (XR), Innovation, Instructional Technologies, Learning Analytics, Learning Environments, Learning Space, Open Educational Resources (OER), Teaching and Learning, Strategic Planning, Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) EDUCAUSE   

A Bird’s-Eye View of Online Program Quality

Laura Dicht has since last November served as manager of online program quality in New York University’s Tandon School of Engineering. Before that, she spent two years as an instructional designer for the school. In the nine months in her new role, she’s gathered some newfound insights into the online teaching experience, shaped new processes […]

Developing Student Support for Open and Distance Learning: The EMPOWER Project

European universities face great challenges dealing with twenty-first century world changes. Deep transformations are required to a wide range of life-long learning scenarios, which are replacing traditional modes of university study and giving access to students in more flexible ways. To address the transformation in learning, the European Association of Distance Teaching Universities (EADTU) launched […]

Physiotherapy student perspectives on synchronous dual-campus learning and teaching

An increasing number of universities offer educational programmes across multiple campuses, as a way of facilitating access to tertiary education and filling the shortage of health professionals in rural and regional settings. Offering an equitable learning experience across all sites has been considered an important aspect in any learning and teaching approach. This qualitative study […]