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First University in Europe To Reach More Than One Million Subscriptions Through New iTunes U App & Over 50 Million Total International Downloads

Open University, the widely popular source of free course content on iTunes U, is the first in Europe to reach more than one million active subscriptions through the iTunes U app since it launched back on 19 January. The OU’s 52 courses on the app add to the University’s extensive material on iTunes U which […]

Virginia high school uses technology to increase learning time, boost graduation rates

T.C. Williams High School, in Virginia’s Alexandria City Public Schools (ACPS), uses technology to create online and blended-learning environments that provide extra support to students who need it. Two of the school’s primary goals are to extend the amount of learning time and ensure that more students graduate—and early results from these programs are encouraging.eSchool […]

Professor Hopes to Support Free Course With Kickstarter, the ‘Crowd Funding’ Site

ree online courses for the masses are all the rage—and many are being run by start-ups hoping to profit by selling related materials and services. Jim Groom thinks that’s too commercial, so he’s raising money for the online course he co-teaches at the University of Mary Washington using Kickstarter, the popular “crowd funding” service.Wired CampusFull […]

Download: Accelerating the adoption of mLearning: a call for collective and collaborative action [Open Access Paper]

Accelerating the adoption of mLearning: a call for collective and collaborative action [Open Access Paper].Perspectives from the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on ICT.Commonwealth of LearningDownload Paper

Download: Final Report, Regulatory Frameworks for Distance Education, International Council for Open and Distance Education

A consortium of DE Hub, the Australian Universities Quality Agency (AUQA) (now the Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency (TEQSA)), The International Network for Quality Assurance Agencies in Higher Education (INQAAHE), and the Australasian Council on Open, Distance and ELearning (ACODE) has undertake a study of the regulatory frameworks for distance education (DE) in the […]

MSU [Montana State University] announces development of new online programs

Montana State University has announced development of several new online programs as part of an initiative to expand the university’s distance education offerings.<P>Montana State University<P>Press Release

Factors Associated With Student Persistence in an Online Program of Study: A Review of the Literature

Abstract This integrated literature review examined factors associated with the ability of students to persist in an online course. Lack of persistence in online education and its’ consequence of attrition, is an identified problem within the United States and internationally. Terminology has wavered between persistence and success, where each has been interchangeably used to characterize […]

Web application for recording learners’ mouse trajectories and retrieving their study logs for data analysis

Abstract With the accelerated implementation of e-learning systems in educational institutions, it has become possible to record learners’ study logs in recent years. It must be admitted that little research has been conducted upon the analysis of the study logs that are obtained. In addition, there is no software that traces the mouse movements of […]

Exclusive Interview with Dr. Jim Julius, Faculty Director, Online Education MiraCosta College Community College District, CA

Dr. Saba: Dr. Julius What attracted you to educational technology? Dr. Julius: Educational technology brings together my education and life experiences as nothing else could. As a kid, I enjoyed computers, writing my first programs at an Apple II camp as an 8th grader in 1980. I went on to study computer science at Willamette […]

Dr. Saba Presents the Keynote for the Distance Education Track of the University Professional and Continuing Education Conference

The 97th Annual Conference of the University Professional and Continuing Education Association in Portland Oregon was extra ordinary in the sense that participants had to consider a variety of unprecedented challenges facing higher education these days. American institutions of higher education led the world in the 20th Century. Today, because of reduced state funding and […]