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Few would dispute the convenience, low cost, and high efficiency of learning through technology. Whether eLearning, blended-learning, or mobile learning, it is usually just in time, just enough, and just for the user, which is the ideal form of customization and convenience for participants. At the same time, for larger audiences, eLearning represents a tremendous […]
The increasing popularity of distance education in the last ten years has been a mixed blessing in so far as conceptual and theoretical development of the field is concerned. Many institutions of higher education as well as leading corporations that offer eLearning to their employees still approach distance education from a physical science perspective. This […]
Presidents, trustees and senior administrators at New England colleges and universities all feel the pressures: keep tuition down, be competitive academically and make sure the physical campus draws talent from a shrinking pool of traditional high school graduates and new nontraditional students. Given resource limitations, something’s got to give and, for many campuses, investment in […]
Thank you Governor Wise, not only for your introduction, but most especially for your leadership both when in office and now as president of the Alliance for Excellent Education. Thank you to the educators who are here and online for your dedication to our nation’s most critical asset. And to my friend, Librarian of Congress Jim Billington, thank […]
February is Career and Technical Education (CTE) month, and what could be more fitting than to announce that the name of the Office of Vocational and Adult Education has been changed to the Office of Career, Technical, and Adult Education (OCTAE). Vocational education was recognized as a national priority with the Smith-Hughes Act of 1917. […]
Scientists from five Swedish universities were interviewed about open second cycle education. Research groups and scientists collaborate closely with industry, and the selection of scientists for the study was made in relation to an interest in developing technology-enhanced open education, indicated by applications for funding from the Knowledge Foundation 2013. The study is founded on […]
The NMC and EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI) jointly released the NMC Horizon Report > 2014 Higher Education Edition at a special session at the ELI Annual Meeting 2014. This eleventh edition describes annual findings from the NMC Horizon Project, an ongoing research project designed to identify and describe emerging technologies likely to have an impact […]
Howard University and Pearson have put on hold their partnership to create a flagship campus for distance education among historically black colleges and universities, after changing expectations and time constraints derailed a planned launch this fall. Inside Higher Ed Full Article
Results of previous studies have indicated that the performance of recommendation algorithms depends on the characteristics of the application context. The same algorithms have shown to be performing in totally different ways when a new or evolved data set is considered, thus leading to a need for continuous monitoring of how they operate in a […]
Evaluation of recommender systems has only lately started to become more systematic, since the emphasis has long been on the experimental evaluation of algorithmic performance. Recent studies have proposed adopting a layered evaluation approach, according to which recommender systems may be decomposed into several components, evaluating each of them separately. Nevertheless, there are still no […]
