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RALEIGH – Digital Imaging, Interactive 3-D Objects, Nomadic Moodle, Social Networking and Flinged Migration may not be terms the average instructor uses, but are the tools of the trade for those who teach on the Internet or with other distance learning methods. Those distance learning instructors, from every education level, will gather in New Bern […]
Virtual Classroom Will Be Integrated Into Moodle(TM) Open-Source Course Management SystemRead the Full Article
Blackboard’s e-learning patent looks to be going down. The United States Patent and Trademark Office this week sent out a “non-final” determination on the reexamination of Blackboard’s patent in which all of the claims on the patent were rejected. Blackboard still has a period of two months to respond to the determination.Read the Full Article
The purpose of this study was to investigate whether or not the principles of assessment in online education are reflected in the assessment activities used by the developers and administrators of actual online distance courses. Three online distance education programs provided at a large mid-west university were analyzed; the School of Continuing Studies – undergraduate […]
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation has granted more than $1.8 million to the Indiana University School of Education to expand the immersive learning environment “Quest Atlantis.”Read the Full Article
Using a qualitative study of distance education (DE) learners whose parents have not accessed post-secondary education (PSE), this paper proposes themes for further research in the study of first-generation students (FGS). This survey asked a number of open-ended questions about parental influences on university enrollment, and respondents’ reasons for choosing university in general and DE […]
Because online learning presents unique challenges for not only learners but faculty and administrators as well, those involved in these cyber-environments must think beyond the boundaries of the traditional classroom. This study examined the perceptions of online persistence factors, those characteristics which influence student retention, as seen by the three major stakeholders in community college […]
The purpose of this study was to investigate college students’ perceptions of learning and knowledge transfer in problem-based video instruction. To achieve this purpose, this study compared students’ interview data of learning and knowledge transfer in problem-based video instruction (PBVI) that was produced for an undergraduate course of the special education field with those in […]
“The greatest challenge we face with ed tech and with evolving education is human,” said Keith Krueger, chief executive officer of the Consortium for School Networking (CoSN), at the group’s 13th annual K-12 School Networking Conference in Arlington, Va., earlier this month.Read the Full Article
In her spare time, away from her duties as a chemicals specialist in the Army, Angie Papple fires up her computer and writes an article about something close to her, like life in the military. Other times she’ll analyze a piece of software. Or she’ll churn out advice for travelers to Hawaii, where she lives, […]