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Posts Tagged ‘Instructional Systems’

The National Repository of Online Courses (NROC)

The National Repository of Online Courses (NROC) is a growing library of high-quality online course content for students and faculty in higher education, high school and Advanced Placement Access Website

Using technology to fight cheating in online college education

High-tech methods have evolved as schools look to stay one step ahead of students eCampus News Full Article

Evolution of the framework for 21st century competencies

This article presents the successive changes and evolution of the frameworks for 21st century competencies, since the appearance of the first conceptual models during the final years of the last century, and also it is a review of the competencies that are needed in the 21st century with a special focus on the Information and […]

Rich Media e-Compendiums: A New Tool for Enhanced Learning in Higher Education

Electronically supported learning has increasingly been introduced and accepted into the academic community over recent decades, and a variety of new digital learning tools have been developed to serve students both for distance education and on-campus blended learning. To serve our distance education nursing students, we recently developed unique rich media e-compendiums, based on a […]

Introduction to Distance Education: Theorists and Theories –Reflections on Theories

By: Dr. Farhad (Fred) Saba Founder, Distance-Educator.com Industrialization has been a feature of distance education for many years. Otto Peters, a pioneering theorist, explained when technology is used to reach students in mass, education assumes industrial characteristics, such as, standardization of services and mass production of educational products (Keegan 1994). To the extent that correspondence […]