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Technology Gap
Professors think they are doing a better job with digital tools than their students believe is the case, survey suggests.SOURCE: Inside Higher EducationRead the Full Article
Tweeting in Class
DENVER — Do Twitter skeptics really believe the popular microblogging service offers no educational value, or are they just afraid of it?For W. Gardner Campbell, director of the Academy of Teaching and Learning at Baylor University, there is no question that fear of straying from the status quo has inhibited the development of Twitter as […]
SETDA forum illuminates key ed-tech trends
Attending this year’s annual State Education Technology Directors Association (SETDA) Education Forum was like sitting through a timeline of technology integration in schools during the last few years: Participants heard about what’s now the norm (interactive whiteboards, or IWBs), what’s hot on everyone’s list (digital textbooks), and what’s on the horizon (national high school reform).SOURCE: […]
Hope or Hype on the Cloud
DENVER — Meeting in the Mile High City, it was inevitable that the 2009 Educause Conference would contain a discussion about clouds.When Melissa Woo, director of cyberstructure research at the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee, and Michael Dieckmann, CIO of the University of West Florida, squared off in a debate over the merits of outsourcing […]
Middle-class teens opt for online university learning to save money
More middle-class teenagers are taking up remote learning because they can not afford to go away to university, a new vice-chancellor has suggested. SOURCE: The Times (London) Read the Full Article
Research Areas In Distance Education: A Delphi Study
This study had three purposes: Firstly, to develop a categorization of research areas in distance education; secondly, to identify the most important research areas in distance education; and thirdly, to identify the most neglected research areas in distance education. Based on a literature review and a Delphi study, three broad levels or perspectives with 15 […]
Attrition In Online And Campus Degree Programs
The purpose of this study was to examine how the mode of instructional delivery, campus face-to-face or online, affected dropout relative to students’ academic and demographic characteristics. A quantitative study was conducted to analyze the academic and demographic characteristics of newly admitted, matriculated degree-seeking students (N = 640) from Fall 2002 to Fall 2004 in […]
Online Learner Authentication: Verifying The Identity Of Online Users
This paper addresses how one university has partnered with a corporation to work on the verification of online student identity and describes ongoing efforts to best verify online student identity. Through this collaboration, the university seeks to enhance the credibility of its online evaluation process by employing data forensic techniques commonly used by today’s financial […]