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Education and training software developer Tribrio has launched a new site called TestDesigner.com that allows teachers to create tests free and browse through a library of subject-specific assessments created by other educators.Read the Full Article
NEW YORK (AP) — Many people now create and share content on the Internet or blend services from various sites in their daily tasks, reflecting the medium’s clear evolution from a place for simply consuming Web sites.Read the Full Article
The Open University has promised to become more Mac and Linux friendly, reflecting the needs of its students. Read the Full Article
Desire2Learn recently became the first education technology provider to fall victim to litigation stemming from Blackboard’s patent covering learning management systems. Read the Full Article
Authentic learning designs have been explored for some time now and have frequently been shown to provide learning settings that provide many meaningful contexts for learning. These meaningful contexts provide not only encouragement for students to learn but also a raft of learning enhancements including higher-order learning and forms of learning support.Read the Full Article
Studies show that many learners feel resistant to or otherwise under-prepared for learning challenges due to underdeveloped ability to self-regulate or adapt thoughts, feelings, and actions to attain their own personal goals. This narrative account illustrates pathways and pitfalls in evoking such behavior and encouraging self-authorship—the internal defining of beliefs, identity and relationships. Read the […]
With the continued development of the Internet, distance learning initiatives and Web-based mechanisms designed to support traditional classroom pedagogies are here to stay, and traditional notions of teaching are forever changed. Online colleges and universities like the University of Phoenix already boast burgeoning enrollments, as students flock to a curriculum that will gladly meet them […]
The purpose of this study was to determine areas of strengths and weaknesses in the institutionalization of distance learning at colleges and universities. Read the Full Article
Great strides have been made in the creation and use of distributed content. However, the early promise of re-use has been largely unfulfilled for both architectural and organizational reasons.Read the Full Article
Good relations between IT and faculty can be promoted by understanding and addressing the cultural divides that exist between the administration and facultyRead the Full Article