‘Clicking’ with Students
In addition to the thousands of freshmen and transfer students who arrived on the SDSU campus this fall, a new approach to undergraduate instruction also made its first appearance.Read the Full Story
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Online classrooms adaptable
A new trend to address non-traditional students’ need for education away from campus allows them to get their education online. The University of Tennessee offers several ways for students to work for degrees through this type of distance education.Read the Full Story
Are College Students Techno Idiots?
Susan Metros, a professor of design technology at Ohio State University, says that reading, writing and arithmetic are simply not enough for today’s students. What is important for learners is information: how to find it, how to focus it, and how to filter out nonsense. But for many students, their main source for information is […]
Educators explore “Second Life” online
NEW YORK (CNN) — The classroom of the future isn’t on a college campus. It’s in the virtual world of “Second Life.”Read the Full Story
BLOG –MLearn: One Laptop Per Child
I’m blogging from the MLearn conference in Banff, Alberta. Things are moving very fast, so I’m grabbing what time I can to process the sessions and blog about them.Read the Full Story
Emerging Leadership Roles in Distance Education: Current State of Affairs and Forecasting Future Trends
IntroductionThis paper discusses the enormous impact distance learning has had on traditional higher education and leadership roles within those constructs. The writer will address and discuss critical issues relating to leadership in higher education with a distance learning focus, current and future distance education modalities, and future leadership trends. This paper will focus on transformational […]
What’s it worth? The perceived benefits of instructional blogging
AbstractInteractive web-access has led to the growth in blogging, a process whereby authors publicly post messages, respond to others, and are allowed to publicly offer their thinking to the public. Some college instructors have been quick to augment instruction with blogs focused on content matter and for peer review of work and commentary. There is, […]
The Future of Online Teaching and Learning in Higher Education: The Survey Says…
A survey substantiates some ideas about online learning and refutes othersRead the Full Story
A Case Study in Integrating the Best Practices of Face-to-Face Art History and Online Teaching
Distance learning courses have for the most part made use of simple structures that focus on the juxtaposition of html texts with static visuals. Instruction in art history demands more. It requires a type of interaction described as performative triangulation, which naturally occurs in traditional art history face-to-face lecture courses. Read the Full Story
Outline and Evaluation of a Joint European and Canadian Virtual Mobility: e-Learning Project.
This paper describes the development and evaluation of a “virtual mobility†(e-learning) project which was set up as part of a joint Canadian/European funded project to explore cross-cultural education in the Radiation Sciences. Participating institutions were the University of Hertfordshire, UK; Institut Paul Lambin, Belgium; InHolland, Netherlands; The Michener Institute, Toronto Canada; Dalhousie University, Halifax […]