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Many educational institutions make use of assessment schemes based on an ordered hierarchy of cognitive activity, where the judgments of educators on the learning progress of students are expressed using marks or grades. These have high face-validity because they appear to represent intuitively sound descriptions of learning development. The language found in many such assessment […]
The World Bank is currently working with a few countries that are planning for the procurement of lots of digital learning materials. In some cases, these are billed as ‘e-textbooks’, replacing in part existing paper-based materials; in other cases, these are meant to complement existing curricular materials. In pretty much all cases, this is happening […]
Fred Saba, well-known scholar and practitioner of distance and online learning, monitors the most current trends through his online newsletter and website, Distance-Educator.com. He teaches online learning and has been a witness to the critical changes that have occurred in the field. We had the opportunity to ask Fred about trends and the evolution of […]
Elsevier, the academic publishing giant, announcedon Tuesday that it will offer a free version of one of its textbooks this fall to students who register for Circuits & Electronics, a massive open online course (MOOC) being offered by edX. Inside Higher Ed Full Article
PDF library organization is important if you’re a student or a scholar. Enter new kid on the block ReadCube, a free Adobe AIR app currently in public beta. ReadCube offers a comprehensive, all-in-one solution for organizing, finding and reading articles. It’s a worthy competitor to Zotero and Mendeley. PCWorld Full Article
Social learning management system Lore has added a new feature that lets on-campus clubs and groups collaborate using the free tool. The company released Lore for Academic Groups this week, and it is available now. Campus Technology Full Article
The basic currency of higher education — the credit hour — represents the root of many problems plaguing America’s higher education system: the practice of measuring time rather than learning. EDUCATIONSECTOR Download Report
– State Leaders Stress Importance of Personalized Learning, Instructional Materials Innovation to Prepare Students for College, Careers – September 24, 2012 (Washington, D.C.) Today the State Educational Technology Directors Association (SETDA) released Out of Print: Reimagining the K-12 Textbook in a Digital Age. This report highlights the sea change underway in the multi-billion dollar U.S. […]
BALTIMORE, MD – StraighterLine (www.straighterline.com) announced today that the largest public university in the United States, University of Maryland University College (UMUC), has joined their rapidly expanding network of partner colleges. With over 92,000 students, most of them working adults, UMUC is a formidable addition to StraighterLine’s partner school network, which now includes many of […]
The movement toward “open access” publishing — in which scholarly journal articles are available free — is taking off without consideration of the impact on humanities scholarship, says a statement being released today by the American Historical Association Inside Higher Ed Full Article