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Is the biggest classroom in the world the screen in front of you?The screen – whether on a laptop, a tablet, a mobile phone, even that quaint old device a television set – plays a huge part in the lives of young people.BBCFull Article
The academic world has been faced with a serious and growing problem in scholarly communication in recent years. Peer-reviewed scholarly journals are published increasingly by commercial publishing interests, which now control more than 60 percent of scholarly journals.Chronicle of Higher EducationFull Article
Update: This afternoon the House Education Committee passed the online learning bill with the mandate removed.Now, the bill urges school systems to maximize digital learning rather than mandating that students take at least one online course to graduate.The Atlanta Journal-ConstitutionFull Article
Jeff MacSwan and Kellie Rolstad, a husband-and-wife team at Arizona State University, heard rumors last year that courses they designed for an online program were being used without their permission.Inside Higher EdFull Article
The popular Open University app, ‘Devolve Me’, has today hit one million downloads.The face morph game which was launched as part of the Darwin celebrations, allows people to see how they may have looked as an ancient ancestor from Australopithecus afarensis (3.7million years ago) to a Homo heidelbergensis (500,000 years ago).Open University Full Article
Overview Welcome to “Podcasting in a Writing Class? Considering the Possibilities,” a multimodal project exploring podcasting as a part of a writing class. This text has two main components: a hypertextual webtext and a six episode podcast series. I encourage you to listen to the podcasts and explore the webtext to experience the full article. […]
The nonprofit group called TED, known for streaming 18-minute video lectures about big ideas, today opened a new YouTube channel designed for teachers and professors, with videos that are even shorter.Wired Campus Full Article
Bristol Community College, an urban college in southeastern Massachusetts, has redesigned many of its courses around common learning outcomes. With the help of a Title III grant from the Department of Education, BCC has supported faculty by developing Course Design Toolkits and identifying an array of digital instructional artifacts relevant to course content and supportive […]
With student enrollment increasing rapidly, virtual schooling is experiencing some growing pains. From high dropout rates to concerns about academic rigor, virtual schooling is generating a litany of complaints and unintended student consequences.eSchool NewsFull Article
An institutional electronic portfolio called the iPortfolio had over 17,000 subscribers one year after its introduction at an Australian university. This paper reports on a study to determine how students use these iPortfolio accounts, and factors leading to uptake and effective use. Self-assessed competence with technology skills, factors motivating uptake, and barriers to adoption were […]