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This Is My Story: Preservice English Teachers Create Welcome Videos to Navigate the Places and Spaces of Their Literacy Lives

This article describes a recent collective case study of English language arts methods students at a large university in the southwestern United States who created literacy-based welcome videos addressed to future students. By crafting “This is my Story” videos, preservice teachers practiced technology implementation with traditionally print-based approaches, integrating multimodal media text creation and biographical […]

Competency Profile of the Digital and Online Teacher in Future Education

As education progresses in the digital era and in the Fourth Industrial Revolution, learning will be adaptive and individualized to meet the needs of individual learners. This is possible because of emerging technology, artificial intelligence, and the internet of things. This study is making significant contribution to future education by identifying forces that are shaping […]

A Conversation with a Learning Scientist: Richard Larson

Robert Feldman of the University of Massachusetts Amherst sat with the learning scientist, Richard Larson, Mitsui Professor of Engineering Systems of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), to discuss a program called BLOSSOMS, which uses videos to help educators teach science through active learning and discovery. Watch the interview here: McGraw Hill

Technology Innovations on Campus Can Open the Door to Accessibility for Individuals with Disabilities

At Elgin Community College, the IT organization leveraged assistive technology and information technology to meet the needs of a faculty member with a disability, providing benefits for others across the campus as well. EDUCAUSE Review

Embedding and Sustaining Inclusive Practice to Support Disabled Students in Online and Blended Learning

UK higher education data has shown persistent differences in degree outcomes for specific student groups. Consequently, the Office for Students (the UK government’s higher education regulator) are funding 17 projects to address these inequalities. Building on its expertise, our institution is leading the IncSTEM project alongside colleagues from two other universities, to evaluate, scale up […]

Embracing Dropouts in MOOCs: Exploring Potentials of Invisible Learners

The objective of the paper is to examine how and what the non-completing participants of MOOCs learn. In this paper we term them invisible learners. The paper presents a qualitative study of learning activities and outcomes of invisible learners. The study consists of 11 interviews with MOOC participants and a survey answered by 51 participants. […]

Using learning diaries to evaluate and improve online information literacy and academic skills provision

The purpose of this paper is to describe a new method for the evaluation of online provision of information literacy and academic skills (ILAS), and advocate for its addition as a tool for the ILAS practitioner. The method is discussed in the context of evaluating its effectiveness for a project to investigate the value of […]

What academics really think about information literacy

This research project arose from a need to ensure librarians and academics work together to support student information literacy (IL) development, aligned to the Anglia Ruskin University learning and teaching strategy, and specifically to improve librarians’ understanding of how academic staff view IL and consider their perceptions and expectations within different disciplines. A literature review […]

Investigating the implementation of accredited massive online open courses (MOOCs) in higher education: The boon and the bane

This study investigated a 3-year implementation of accredited massive online open courses (MOOCs) in a conventional university in China. Fifteen students and two staff were interviewed, and relevant policy documents were examined. Thematic analysis was utilised to analyse the data. The study found that students mostly took a wary stance towards accredited MOOCs, while the […]

Utilizing the AECT Instructional Design Standards for Distance Learning

Amid the continued growth of online learning—and concerns about its quality—a number of different groups have moved to establish tools, such as rubrics and standards for online course quality. This paper highlights the development of the Instructional Design Standards for Distance Learning by the Association for Educational Communications and Technology. AECT is the leading international […]

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