Study Tool or Copyright Violation?
An online collection of old tests walks a blurry line on copyright law and academic integrity. Some faculty members are concerned, while others say it can help students learn. Inside Higher Ed Full Article
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Purdue Kicks Off Global Online-Education Project
Purdue University today joined the group of universities that have recently announced plans to experiment with online courses aimed at a global audience. The new effort, called PurdueHUB-U, will serve up modular online courses with video lectures, interactive visualizations, and tools for students to interact with their peers and the professor. The project’s leaders hope […]
More Saudi universities boarding e-learning bandwagon
IS online education the next big thing or will it remain a distant entity awaiting its large-scale acceptance in the higher education landscape of Saudi Arabia? The image of Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah launching the first phase of the university and higher education city projects on an iPad in a ceremony […]
The Education Week’s Spotlight: Implementing Online Learning
The Education Week Spotlight on Implementing Online Learning is a collection of articles hand-picked by our editors including: Identifying promising models for mixing online learning and face-to-face instruction Challenges in e-learning Building partnerships to increase virtual learning collaboration among districts Teaching a “flip model” of instruction with online lectures as homework Using online learning to […]
Searching for Distance Education? A librarian can help
By: Philip Price, MA Educational Technology, MA Library Science The ability to find, evaluate and use information, to retrieve something that addresses an informational need, sounds deceptively easy. One simply ‘googles’ a term and is presented with. … 1,526,766 ‘relevant’ items to look at. Or you access Wikipedia and the combined knowledge, or bias, […]
Exclusive Interview with Dr. Richard Hezel, President, CEO and founder of Hezel Associates
Dr. Saba: Dr. Hezel, How did you become interested in research and planning for education and technology institutions? Dr. Hezel: Early in my career I felt I could be instrumental in social change via media, so I studied mass communication and became a public television producer for a number of years. Then […]
Problem-based Learning in an Online Course of Health Education
Abstract The objectives of this project were to: i) describe the experience of implementing Problem-Based Learning in an online course over three consecutive academic years, ii) analyse the learning environment generated, iii) discuss impacts on students’ active participation, based on the analysis of their interactions. The participants were 30 students, working in five groups, and […]
Emotive Vocabulary in MOOCs: Context & Participant Retention
Abstract Massive Online Open Courses (MOOCs) have been growing in popularity with educational researchers, instructors, and learners in online environments. Online discussions are as important in MOOCs as in other online courses. Online discussions that occur in MOOCs are influenced by additional factors resulting from their volatile and voluntary participation structure. This article aims to […]
Groups Team Up to Turn Free Online Courses Into Cheap College Credit
The Saylor Foundation has been building an online catalog of free, self-paced college courses since 2010. But students who completed those courses could not typically earn credit toward a degree, since the nonprofit group is not an accredited institution. Saylor’s new partnership with the online course-provider StraighterLine seeks to change that, giving students an inexpensive […]
Why more schools aren’t teaching web literacy—and how they can start
Fourteen years after we first published ‘Teaching Zack to Think,’ here’s a new three-part framework for making sure students are internet savvy If you follow the dictate that we teach what we test, it’s understandable why schools haven’t spent more time preparing students to be web literate since NCLB was passed. In 1998, a 15-year-old […]