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ITFORUM Paper #68 Now Online: Understanding Participation in Online Courses: A Case Study of Perceptions of Online Interaction

This study examined instructor and learner perceptions and attitudes toward interaction in online courses on “engaged learning with technology” delivered to K12 inservice teachers. Participants included learners who were enrolled in an online course and a course instructor as well as other instructors who have expressed reluctance to teach online courses, participants who chose not […]

MERLOT International Conference Call for Proposals

The Conference provides forums for learning about shared content, peer reviews, learning objects, standards, and online communities. We welcome participation by the entire international higher education community. MERLOT is endorsed by NLII/EDUCAUSE, and partially sponsored by the National Science Foundation.Read the Full Article

Ninth Sloan-C International Conference on Asynchronous Learning Networks (ALN):

Proposals must be submitted by April 18, 2003 Program Tracks The Power of Online Learning: Implications for Teaching and Learning Implications for Faculty and Faculty Support Implications for Learner Satisfaction and Support Learning Effectiveness and Outcomes Institutional Mainstreaming Enhancing Access and Inclusion SUBMIT ONLINE AT:www.aln.ucf.edu/submit OR CALL 1-866-232-5834 Connie Stansell UCF Division of Continuing Education […]

Europe’s Largest Business School Opens In Denmark

It is an immensely popular route to management development qualifications and the OUBS currently has more than 30,000 students studying courses across Europe and around the world – 6,500 of them taking the MBA. The MBA has received accreditation from both EQUIS and AMBA (the European Foundation of Management Development and the Association of MBAs). […]

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Benton Releases New Edtech Report, The Sustainability Challenge

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Benton Foundation and the Education Development Center’s Center for Children and Technology (CCT) released their latest report, The Sustainability Challenge: Taking Edtech to the Next Level, over the Internet today. In the last 10 years, the United States has invested over $40 billion placing computers in schools and connecting classrooms to […]

Persuasive Design: New Captology Book

…rarely gives detailed design guidelines. The exception is a section on enhancing website credibility.Read the Full Article

National Educational Technology Standards (NETS) Update!!

The challenge facing America’s schools is the empowerment of all children to function effectively in their future, a future marked increasingly with change, information growth, and evolving technologies. View, or download the files

Ball State U. Tests Interactive System for Answering Students’ Health Questions Online

Instead of asking a patient to describe a rash over the telephone, a nurse might ask the patient to look at his computer screen: Does the rash have oozing pustules, like the picture on the left? Or is it red and itchy, like the one on the right? Read the Full Article

Laptops and wireless network change teacher’s approach

Burris gave Sandra Murray’s class 20 Macintosh iBooks and access to the university’s wireless network for one year. As part of the initiative, Ball State doctoral student Steve Ransom is observing Murray and her students and noting how computers impact lesson plans and change Murray’s teaching. Read the Full Article