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Usability.gov is the primary government source for information on usability and user-centered design. It provides guidance and tools on how to make Web sites and other communication systems more usable and useful.Read the Full Article
There have been some shockers in the electronic learning world in the last month or so. First, Blackboard won its patent infringement suit against rival Desire2Learn. Then, soon after, the patent itself was rejected by the United States Patent and Trademark Office on reexamination (though that action is not final). But despite the setback in […]
Turnover and attrition of online faculty and adjunct faculty is a reality. While there are no reported national statistics or data on annual turnover/attrition for online faculty/adjunct, the overall costs of recruiting, training, and replacing faculty/adjunct can be staggering. Moreover, the short and long term effects of online faculty/adjunct who are not properly trained through […]
Orientation programs have been used for years in face-to-face universities and colleges to help prepare new students adjust to their new college community by providing key information about school resources and providing an opportunity socially interact with other students. These orientation efforts have been a vital component in increasing a students’ likelihood of persisting in […]
This paper explores evaluation strategies to gauge the impact of a novel instructional design on international community participation online. This is done by conceptualizing and devising indicators for measuring “engagement†online amongst marginalized adult communities worldwide. In doing so, a review of online community participation and evaluation literature is conducted. Read the Full Article
MINNEAPOLIS, April 1, 2008 /PRNewswire/ — Walden University, one of the largest online providers of graduate degrees, is offering Bachelor of Science degrees in Psychology and in Child Development, adding to a current undergraduate offering in Business Administration. Adult learners can earn these degrees while balancing work and personal commitments, as they also become prepared […]
Pune: Distance education is growing in India and should continue to do so, but the country should follow UNESCO guidelines to weed out unscrupulous players, a group of educationists said here on Thursday. Educationists from countries like Britain, Australia, Malaysia and Canada who met here on Thursday along with those from India to discuss the […]
Rapid enrollment growth is great, but can bring its own set of challenges. Ask administrators at the University of Central Florida, one of the fastest-growing universities in the country. With 46,000-plus students, the university has seen enrollment jump 35 percent in 10 years.Read the Full Article
In late 1971, several “entirely forgettable†messages were sent between two machines (today we would call them computers, but the word machines more accurately reflects their size at that time) located only a few feet from each other.1 Like the first telephones and televisions, e-mail would soon grow in popularity, astonishing even the most optimistic […]
A growing number of American families are choosÂing to homeschool their children. The U.S. DepartÂment of Education’s National Center for Education Statistics reports that approximately 1.1 million chilÂdren (2.2 percent of school-age children) were being educated at home as of 2003—29 percent more than the 850,000 students who were being homeschooled in 1998.[1] Another estimate […]