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NEWS RELEASE For Release: IMMEDIATE Contact: Paul Hassen, APLU, 202-478-6073 Charles Lenth, SHEEO, 303-541-1601 Announcing the Formation of the Commission on Regulation of Postsecondary Distance Education May 23, 2012 — Former U. S. Secretary of Education Richard W. Riley and 20 other leaders have been invited to explore the regulation of postsecondary distance education on […]
Begun in 1990, The Campus Computing ProjectTM is the largest continuing study of the role of information technology in American higher education. Our projects – the annual Campus Computing Survey, the national surveys of presidents, provosts, and other senior campus officials conducted in collaboration with Inside Higher Ed, and other research activities – draw on […]
Excerpted on 5/16/2012 from Kemp, S.J. (2012). “Social Presence in Online Learning,” chapter in Mark A. Maddix, James R. Estep, and Mary E. Lowe (Eds). Best Practices of Online Education: A Guide for Christian Education. Charlotte, NC: Information Age. Fifteen years ago, many academic leaders thought it was impossible for students to have truly meaningful […]
ABSTRACT This study aims to develop and implement a tool called intelligent tutoring system in an online course to help a formative evaluation in order to improve student learning. According to Bloom et al. (1971,117) formative evaluation is a systematic evaluation to improve the process of teaching and learning. The intelligent tutoring system may provide […]
Dr. Rufus Glasper, Chancellor of the Maricopa Community Colleges, is one of 20 education leaders appointed to a commission to study the regulation of distance education. Tempe, AZ (PRWEB) June 01, 2012 Dr. Rufus Glasper, Chancellor of the Maricopa Community Colleges, is one of 20 education leaders appointed to a commission to study the regulation […]
The Ohio State University has announced a plan to build an innovative, forward-looking learning environment that will enhance teaching and student learning. The plan, called Digital First, will expand classroom technology, foster a 21st century mobile learning environment with technology including iPads, and enhance digital learning content through tools such as iTunes U and iBooks […]
Mapping Texts, a collaboration between Stanford University and the University of North Texas, allows scholars to explore visualizations of language patterns embedded in almost two centuries of Texas newspapers. Stanford University Press Release
Abstract In Sweden, higher education has moved away from distance education, including physical meetings, to online education with no physical meetings at all. This article focuses on the shift from distance to online education using an educational management perspective that is based on economic, staff, and student data collected between 1994 and 2010 (Department of Education, […]
About four years ago, the World Bank’s infoDev program secured funding to do a ‘global survey of the use of mobile phones in education in developing countries’, based on the belief that the increasing availability of the small, connected computing devices more commonly known as ‘mobile phones’ was going to have increasing relevance to school systems […]
TEACH…LEARN…CONNECT 28thAnnual Conference on Distance Teaching & Learning August 8-10, 2012 Madison, Wisconsin http://www.uwex.edu/disted/conference Register by July 16 to receive the “early-bird” fee AND take advantage of the Group Discount (3 or more people from same organization). For more info, download the Conference Program.If you are unable to attend in person, we recommend registering […]