Posts Tagged ‘Software Systems’

Teachers’ Adoption of Open Educational Resources in Higher Education

Open Educational Resources (OER) have the potential to change the domain of higher education; however, adoption is still limited. As teachers are the pivotal actors to adopt OER, more insights are needed on their practices with OER and need of support. This exploratory study uses the OER Adoption Pyramid as a framework to analyse adoption […]

Education, privacy, and big data algorithms: Taking the persons out of personalized learning

In this paper, we review the literature on philanthropy in education to provide a larger context for the role that technology company foundations, such as the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and ChanZuckerberg LLC, are playing with respect to the development and implementation of personalized learning. We then analyze the ways that education magazines and […]

Open Universities and Open Educational Practices

The purpose of this study is to provide an overview of how open universities depict their current institutional engagement in open educational practices. In view of the growth of programming for non-traditional students by conventional universities, particularly through online learning and increasing interest in open educational practices, the intention is to gain a better understanding […]

Competency‐based education: Multiple approaches‐a single institution

The purpose of this paper was to describe the development of two competency‐based curricula for existing programs at the largest community college with single accreditation serving nearly 160,000 students each year. Utilizing a competency framework and industry partners, program level and students level outcomes were defined to adequately prepare students to meet industry needs. Although […]

Educational simulations are on the rise

Students can learn how to tackle real-world challenges when they engage in educational simulations eCampus News

Mapping the IP [Intellectual Property] Landscape: Reflections on Ownership, Authorship, & Copyright for Writing Instruction

This study arises from over a decade of experience with the Intellectual Property Caucus of the Conference on College Composition and Communication (IP Caucus), a group dedicated to discussing intellectual property (IP) issues that affect practitioners in writing studies and to pursuing initiatives to address IP concerns, such as formulating a policy statement in response […]

5 AIs in Search of a Campus

To grasp how artificial intelligence will play out in higher education, and how we can strategically address these changes, we should think about how artificial intelligence might unfold over the next few years. Educause Review

Smart ALEKS

Arizona State University’s College Algebra classes have looked a little different these past few years. If you entered a classroom in the fall of 2015, you’d likely find 100 to 140 students listening to the professor lecture. Today, walking into an algebra classroom, you’d see those same 100 students all on their computers, with a […]

Artificial Intelligence and the Academy’s Loss of Purpose

This article speculates on the future of higher education as online technology, specifically adaptive learning and analytics as infused by artificial intelligence software, develops and matures. Online and adaptive learning have already advanced within the academy, but the most significant changes are yet to come. These evolving technologies have the potential to change the traditional […]

What Monkeys Teach Us about Authorship: Toward a Distributed Agency in Digital Composing Practices

This webtext explores the pedagogical possibilities of teaching with and through “monkey selfies” as the issue of animal authorship and copyright opens up new pedagogical avenues for challenging the static and fixed views of authorship in composing practices. Kairos