The Education Giant Adapts
Pearson is the world’s largest book publisher. Now it wants to be a one-stop shop for digital education. MIT Technology Review Full Article
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Media Lab Conversations Series: Howard Rheingold
How can we use digital media so that they help us become empowered participants rather than passive consumers? In his book Net Smart, Howard Rheingold shows how to use social media intelligently, humanely, and, above all, mindfully. Download the table of contents (PDF) here. Mindful use of digital media means thinking about what we are […]
Reading in the Digital Age: Using Electronic Books as a Teaching Tool for Beginning Readers
This study stemmed from a concern of the perceived decline in students’ reading motivation after the early years of schooling. This research investigated the effectiveness of online eBooks on eight grade 1 students’ reading motivation. Eight students were given ten 25-minute sessions with the software programs over 15 weeks. Qualitative data were collected from students, […]
A Typology for Observing Children’s Engagement with eBooks at Preschool
This research reports a two-phase descriptive study of young children’s engagement with ebooks conducted in Head Start classrooms. Phase 1 focused on the development of a typology as an analytic framework for observing engagement with ebooks in different formats (shared book; independent book browsing) and across devices (stationary touch screen; handhelds). Converging extant research categories […]
Factors Affecting the Future of Higher Education: Increased Demand
By Dr. Farhad (Fred) Saba Founder and Editor, Distance-Educator.com Education at all levels and institutions, including the training functions of most corporations and government agencies, are facing unprecedented challenges in huge proportions as the 21st century unfolds. At the turn of the century, Houghton, and Sheehan (2000) posited and major international organizations, such as World […]
The Education Giant Adapts
Pearson is the world’s largest book publisher. Now it wants to be a one-stop shop for digital education. MIT Technology Review Full Article
Sanjay Sarma appointed as MIT’s first director of digital learning
Sanjay Sarma, the Fred Fort Flowers and Daniel Fort Flowers Professor of Mechanical Engineering, has been appointed MIT’s first director of digital learning, effective immediately. President L. Rafael Reif announced Sarma’s appointment today in an e-mail message to the MIT community. MIT Press Release
CHEA and AAUP Release Advisory Statement on Accreditation and Academic Freedom
(Washington, DC) –The Council for Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA) and the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) have released an advisory statement on Accreditation and Academic Freedom. The Council for Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA) Press Release
Why You Should Care About the Learning Registry?
By Farhad (Fred) Saba, Ph. D. Founder and Editor, Distance-Educator.com 2012 has been characterized by several new developments in the field, one of which has been the maturing of the Open Educational Resources (OER). If you are interested in sharing of resources, then you must also care about The Learning Registry (TLR). TLR is a […]
Free Textbooks Spell Disruption for College Publishers
Startup companies offering knockoff textbooks are attracting students, and lawsuits. MIT Technology Review Full Article