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Web site accessibility is a serious civil rights concern that has historically been difficult to measure and to establish success criteria for. By conducting automated accessibility analyses via the WAVE tool, we calculated accessibility norms of a statistically appropriate, random sample of K–12 school Web sites across the U.S. (n = 6,226) and merged results […]
Texas A&M’s contract with the current eCampus learning management system is nearing its expiration date, and the university is looking to make improvements for future programs. The Blackboard Learn contract will expire on Aug. 31, 2021, and the Learning Management System selection subcommittee (LMS) has formed under the Division of IT’s Governance program to find […]
Nearly one-quarter of U.S. households are estimated to have a smart speaker, such as the Google Home or Amazon’s Echo. The rapid adoption of such devices, which use artificial intelligence (AI) to interact with users, is similar to how Americans quickly embraced smartphones. As we become increasingly comfortable interacting with “smart” gadgets, the assimilation of […]
A pedagogical agent is an anthropomorphic virtual character used in an online learning environment to serve instructional purposes. The design of pedagogical agents changes over time depending on the desired objectives for them. This article is a systematic review of the research from 2007 to 2017 related to the design factors of pedagogical agents and […]
The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas this year showcased some new products for schools and parents. Here are some highlights: Tech & Learning
Galileo Global Education has grown significantly over the past few years, adding several institutions in different regions and further expanding its offering, which now spans applied arts, fashion, design, digital/Internet, business and medicine. While cultural diversity and variety of pedagogical practices are key differentiators of the educational programmes, Galileo’s leadership recognised that implementing a common […]
Big data, machine learning and artificial intelligence in education is not an arms race, but a smarts race, according to Yaz El Hakim, Director of Learning Experience at Kortext. Universities are becoming far more sophisticated in their use of data. What were ‘data silos’ on Excel spreadsheets in different, non-conversing departments, are evolving and being […]
BOSTON, February 7, 2019 — The majority of current and former college students (77 percent) are worried about having the skills needed for a job, and many (65 percent) say finding a job is more difficult today compared to their parents’ generation, according to a recent survey conducted by Morning Consult on behalf of Cengage. […]
ProQuest yesterday announced the launch of ProQuest One Academic, a new resource that utilizes a single user interface to offer access to the full collection of journals, newspapers, magazines, and other content in the ProQuest Central database; every ebook in the Academic Complete collection; the 66,000 streaming videos included in Alexander Street’s Academic Video Online […]
WORCESTER, United Kingdom — It’s a warm day in early June and a group of students have gathered in the IT classroom at New College Worcester to show off their coding skills. But instead of poking at tablet screens or typing into laptops, these students are taking out brightly colored plastic pods, connecting them together […]
