Posts Tagged ‘Software Systems’

Past, present, and future of smart learning: a topic-based bibliometric analysis

Innovative information and communication technologies have reformed higher education from the traditional way to smart learning. Smart learning applies technological and social developments and facilitates effective personalized learning with innovative technologies, especially smart devices and online technologies. Smart learning has attracted increasing research interest from the academia. This study aims to comprehensively review the research […]

Benefits of immersive collaborative learning in CAVE-based virtual reality

How to make the learning of complex subjects engaging, motivating, and effective? The use of immersive virtual reality offers exciting, yet largely unexplored solutions to this problem. Taking neuroanatomy as an example of a visually and spatially complex subject, the present study investigated whether academic learning using a state-of-the-art Cave Automatic Virtual Environment (CAVE) yielded […]

D2L Enhancing Online Learning Through Collaboration

D2L, a global learning technology leader, announced today that its Brightspace learning management system (LMS) will now seamlessly integrate with Microsoft Teams, one of the leading online collaboration platforms, for customers in North America and Europe. Desire2Learn

Download Conference Proceedings: Human and Artificial Intelligence for the Society of the Future

Introduction “Education is back where it belongs – at the top of the European policy agenda” stated the European Commission. We intend that Europe will be considered a strong and allied partner to future generations, and that the EU education system must make our societies future proof. Education is often envisioned in terms of innovation, […]

Download Report: AI and the Future of Learning: Expert Panel Report

Artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, and related computational techniques have the potential to make powerful impacts on the future of learning. Technology’s impact on education is often to amplify impacts, regardless of whether the impacts are intended. Due to the accelerating pace of integration of technology in learning environments, the knob on the amplifier is […]

Open Educational Resources in Canada 2020

COVID 19 has had a wide impact on education internationally and specifically in Canada, with nearly all institutions now transitioning to online education, with many learning for the first time about Open Educational Resources (OER). Understanding what is happening with OER in the different regions of our country is one step in creating awareness and […]

Download Reports: What National and International Assessments Can Tell Us About Technology in Students’ Learning: Technology Instruction, Use, and Resources in U.S. Schools

As schools and school districts plan instruction amid the current coronavirus pandemic, the use of technology and digital resources for student instruction is a key consideration. In this post, the final in a three-part series, we present results from the NAEP TEL and ICILS educator questionnaires (see the first post for information about the results of […]

First year undergraduates make use of recordings to overcome the barriers to higher education: evidence from a survey

In this study, 295 (13.8% response rate) first year students from a large, Scottish, Russell-Group university were surveyed on their attitudes to and use of lecture recordings in 2018. Kruskal–Wallis tests were used to compare the ranked responses between students in different categories relevant to monitoring equality and diversity, such as carer status (5% of […]

HOME / ARCHIVES / VOL. 28 (2020) / Original Research Articles The effects of a Moodle-based instructional unit on physical activity in schools on 15–20 years experienced permanent Irish primary teachers physical activity knowledge, attitudes and behaviour

Childhood obesity is nearing epidemic proportions in Ireland and abroad. Childhood is a key period in the prevention of obesity and additional conditions that are associated with a sedentary lifestyle. The study aimed to discuss the effect of a short eLearning course for Irish primary teachers and its effect on their behaviours, attitudes and knowledge […]

Download Report: Top IT Issues, 2021: Emerging from the PandemicThe EDUCAUSE 2021

Top IT Issues examine three potential scenarios for the role of technology in higher education after the pandemic: restore, evolve, or transform. EDUCAUSE