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The influence of students’ ICT skills and their adoption of mobile learning

Mobile technology has gained increased focus in academic circles as a way to enable learning that is not confined by time and place. As the benefits of mobile learning are being clarified so too will researchers need to understand the factors that influence its future use. The adoption of mobile technology will largely depend on […]

Leading the quality management of online learning environments in Australian higher education

The paper presents the findings of the first year of a nationally funded Australian Learning and Teaching Council (ALTC) project on the quality management of online learning environments by and through distributed leadership. The project is being undertaken by five Australian universities with major commitments to online and distance education. Each university, however, has a […]

The Virtual Student Foreign Service

The Virtual Student Foreign Service is part of a growing effort by the State Department to harness technology and a commitment to global service among young people to facilitate new forms of diplomatic engagement. US Department of State Visit the website

Desire2Learn’s Most Recent Acquisition, Wiggio, Makes Working in Groups Easy for Students Both Inside and Outside of the Classroom

Desire2Learn announces integration of Wiggio, the company’s most recent acquisition, into Desire2Learn Learning Suite. FUSION 2013, Boston, Mass., July 15, 2013 Desire2Learn Incorporated (“Desire2Learn”), a leading provider of innovative learning solutions, today announced it has integrated Wiggio, the company’s most recent acquisition, into Desire2Learn Learning Suite. To help make working in groups simple, Wiggio’s enterprise-class […]

From resistance to acceptance and use of technology in academia

The phenomenon of faculty’s resistance to use technology in higher education is the focus of this research as a secondary reading of the existing relevant research with the purpose of analyzing factors of resistance and finding the solutions. This paper is an excerpt from a Doctoral dissertation and is focused on the causes of resistance […]

Redesigning professional development: reconceptualising teaching using social learning technologies

This article evaluates the use of a community of practice model for redesigning a lecturer professional development course investigating the impact of mobile web 2.0 technologies in higher education. The results show a significant change in lecturer conceptions of pedagogy were achieved by this approach. Drawing on our experience of two iterations of implementing the […]

Challenges for Successful Planning of Open and Distance Learning (ODL): A Template Analysis

How to plan an open and distance learning (ODL) unit in higher education is not clearly described in the literature. A number of ODL facilities at residential universities have not been successful because of a lack of planning or because of failure to ensure that all the different systems for ODL delivery were in place […]

Looking out and looking in: Exploring a case of faculty perceptions during e-learning staff development

This explorative study captured the perceptions of faculty members new to technology enhanced learning and the longitudinal observations of the e-learning manager during dedicated professional development in order to compile a socially transformative emergent learning technology integration framework for open and distance learning at the School of Continuing Teacher Education at North-West University, South Africa. […]

Migrating Successful Student Engagement Strategies Online: Opportunities and Challenges Using Jigsaw Groups and Problem-Based Learning

Online courses may be criticized for failing to engage students. Faculty members teaching in the classroom often employ a number of strategies that capture the interest of students, but may find the migration to the online environment a daunting prospect. This paper describes the transitioning of two common strategies to engage students in the classroom […]

The Complexity of Online Discussion

This paper reports on a study that examined the National Association for Sport and Physical Education (NASPE) discussion forum. The study’s purpose was to observe emergent phenomena within this discussion forum. Additionally, the study provided an assessment of these emergent phenomena and their effects on the overall survival and sustainability of this discussion forum. Examinations […]