Veta gets $10mn funding, set for global foray
Private equity fund SAIF Partners has invested $10 million in Amoha Education Pvt Ltd, the holding company of spoken English training academy Veta.Read the Full Article
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USDA Awards More Than $22.3 Million for Telemedicine, Distance Learning Grants
Acting Agriculture Secretary Chuck Conner announced yesterday the selection of 78 grant recipients for Distance Learning and Telemedicine grants totaling $22.3 million in 31 states.Read the Full Article
NBC News offers teachers access to video archives online
This fall, teachers will have free online access to a video vault featuring more than 60 years of historic news and information, thanks to a partnership between NBC News and HotChalk, an online learning management system for K-12 education. To provide primary-source multimedia content that far exceeds what is available in traditional textbooks, NBC News […]
Moodle Primer Part 1: Creating a Class
In a recent article, I mentioned my newfound affection for the open-source course management system Moodle. It’s a great CMS, but there’s not a lot of current information available on it. So, in this two-part tutorial, we’ll walk through the use of it, starting in Part 1 with the creation of a class and setting […]
Blogging Across the Disciplines: Integrating Technology
As the use of web logs (blogs) becomes increasingly popular, many faculty members have incorporated them into college courses to engage students in discussing course materials, to foster a sense of community, and to enhance learning. This study, conducted at a business institution, introduces blogs as a tool to help students prepare for meaningful classroom […]
Active Learning and Technology: Designing Change for Faculty, Students, and Institutions
Much of the rhetoric about contemporary higher education suggests that colleges and universities need to embrace change due to advances in knowledge, technology, transportation, and more—advances that have dramatically shifted the way we all function in the modern world. But what manner of change for learning itself do the public narratives suggest? Commission reports, report […]
Serious Gaming: ‘Learn Math or Die Trying’
“This reaches more kids than anything else I’ve ever done,” said Wendy Hall, now an instructional technology specialist at Piney Grove Middle School, part of Georgia’s highly rated Forsyth County Schools system. She’s talking about an action-packed video game called Dimenxian, from educational gaming company Tabula Digita. The game’s motto: “Learn math or die trying.”Read […]
Dr. Saba, CEO of Distace-Educator.com Elected to National Distance Learning Board
Farhad Saba, professor of educational technology at San Diego State University, was elected to the advisory board of the United States Distance Learning Association (USDLA).Read the Full Article
Toward More Substantively Meaningful Automated Essay Scoring
This study evaluated a “substantively driven†method for scoring NAEP writing assessments automatically. The study used variations of an existing commercial program, e-rater®, to compare the performance of three approaches to automated essay scoring: a brute-empirical approach in which variables are selected and weighted solely according to statistical criteria, a hybrid approach in which a […]
GEAPS/Purdue University to Offer Two New Distance Learning Programs in 2008
he Grain Elevator and Processing Society (GEAPS) and Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN will offer two new distance learning courses in 2008:Read the Full Article