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The use of e-learning for on-the-job training has grown exponentially in the last decade due to it being accepted by people in charge of businesses. Few papers have explored virtual training from the workers’ standpoint, that is, the perception they have about the different training methodologies (face-to-face vs. virtual) and the attitudes they have towards […]
This paper is intended to investigate the degree to which interaction and other predictors contribute to student satisfaction in online learning settings. This was a preliminary study towards a dissertation work which involved the establishment of interaction and satisfaction scales through a content validity survey. Regression analysis was performed to determine the contribution of predictor […]
The United Nations (UN) constituted 2005–2014 as the decade for educational sustainable development when bridges have to be built between academic institutions and their communities. In this article I will therefore do a literature search from 2005–2011 on what it means to be a sustainable university with a sustainable curriculum by looking at case studies […]
A call to action and an opportunity for the Sloan-C community to comment on the penultimate draft of the Commission on the Regulation of Postsecondary Distance Education. The Sloan Consortium Full Article
The New Media Consortium and EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI) have jointly released the NMC Horizon Report > 2013 Higher Education Edition. This tenth edition describes annual findings from the NMC Horizon Project, a decade-long research project designed to identify and describe emerging technologies likely to have an impact on learning, teaching, and creative inquiry in […]
The long-planned Digital Public Library of America is set to make its public debut on schedule next month, with a two-day series of events, to be held April 18-19 at the Boston Public Library, and a new, high-profile leader at the helm. The DPLA announced on Tuesday that Daniel J. Cohen, a leading digital-humanities scholar, […]
The University of Connecticut has finalized plans to offer two new undergraduate degrees in digital media and design, a cross-disciplinary program intended to give students a competitive edge for career success in that rapidly growing job market. The University of Connecticut Press Release
Every new technology inevitably leads to worry. When first-person shooter video games were popular, people worried those games would make you more violent (a concern that persists to this day). A few years ago, people wondered if the Internet made you dumber and then whether Facebook was making us lonely. PCWorld Full Article
A New report issued by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) focuses on policy issues educators must consider to adopt and promote the use of mobile learning. The firs report titled The Future of Mobile Learning: Implications for Policy Makers and Planners predicts that: 1. Technology will be more accessible, affordable and […]
Dr. Farhad (Fred) Saba Founder and Editor, Distance-Educator.com In a previous article in this series, I presented a model of distance education consisting of seven interrelated nested system levels. These system levels have been present in most distance education organizations that I observed, or planned and built over the past 30 years. In this article […]
