Neb.: Qwest Lands $15 Million Contract
Qwest, Nebraska Sign $15 Million Contract to Help Rural StudentsRead the Full Article
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Capella University Announces Leadership Changes to Support Focus on Quality in Education
MINNEAPOLIS-(Business Wire)-March 1, 2007 – Capella University, an accredited(a), fully online university and wholly owned subsidiary of Capella Education Company (NASDAQ:CPLA), both based in Minneapolis, Minn., today announced a new university leadership structure and a national search for a new university president. Michael Offerman, current president of the university, will become vice chairman-external university initiatives, […]
Evaluating the Impact on Users from Implementing a Course Management System
Nearly all colleges and universities are using some form of e-learning system, usually an expensive course management system (CMS), to create online course offerings or to enhance regular, classroom-oriented courses. Our university has invested a large amount of resources into purchasing and supporting one of the two most popular CMS vendors, and it has become […]
Cyber Learning is Authentic Learning
The purpose of this hypertext essay is to outline and explain our theory and to share our practice. We want to show that theory and practice, or practical theory, is the cadence to which teachers march: theory/practice, theory/practice, theory/ practice…Read the Full Article
Allowing Not-Knowing in a Dialogic Discussion
Inspired by Bakhtin’s and Vygotsky’s theories of learning, this project explores how “allowing not-knowing†is enacted within collaborative student-led seminar discussions. Earlier research on student reflections (Feito, 2002) suggested that in successful seminars, participants regularly acknowledge their lack of understanding, offer partial understandings, and collectively develop new meanings. This project tracks these phenomena within actual […]
Software Engineering and eLearning: The MuSofT Project
eLearning supports the education in certain disciplines. Here, we report about novel eLearning concepts, techniques, and tools to support education in Software Engineering, a subdiscipline of computer science. We call this “Software Engineering eLearning”. On the other side, software support is a substantial prerequisite for eLearning in any discipline. Thus, Software Engineering techniques have to […]
Entering the Interaction Age: Implementing a Future Vision for Campus Learning Spaces…Today
Learning space design for higher education has become a popular topic of discussion as institutions attempt to chart a course for the future of their campuses. Several authors in EDUCAUSE publications have forecast the future for such spaces, a future infused with new and sometimes exotic-sounding technologies.Read the Full Article
First Look: Desire2Learn Essentials
This week Desire2Learn introduced a new course management/learning management system targeted toward smaller institutions: those with fewer than 5,000 users. We have an exclusive first look at the new system.Read the Full Article
Delays, designs diminish ed-tech research
Critics question impact of Education Department studies on school technologyRead the Full Article
Black Colleges Expand Distance Learning
More historically black colleges — especially in the public sector — are offering distance education.Read the Full Article