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Social Media Adoption by the Academic Community: Theoretical Insights and Empirical Evidence From Developing Countries

The paper investigates the impact of virtual environmental characteristics such as collaboration, communication, and resource sharing on social media adoption by the academic community at the university level. Building on the social constructivist paradigm and technology acceptance model, we propose a conceptual model to assess social media adoption in academia by incorporating collaboration, communication, and resource […]

Mixed Reality: A Revolutionary Breakthrough in Teaching and Learning

Rapidly evolving augmented reality technology creates opportunities for innovation in education, as demonstrated by Case Western Reserve University and Cleveland Clinic’s HoloAnatomy curriculum and teaching and learning breakthroughs in a multitude of disciplines. EDUCAUSE Review 

Moodle Drops Blackboard

Open source software company Moodle today announced it is ending its partnership with Blackboard. Blackboard will “transition out of Moodle’s Certified Moodle Partner program in the coming months,” and “will no longer be allowed to use the Moodlerooms name or the Moodle trademarks that had been licensed to them to advertise their Moodle-related services,” according […]

Open Educational Resources: Challenges and Opportunities in Indian Primary Education

Education is a fundamental human right, yet one fifth of the world’s population lives with poor literacy. India is home to the largest number of illiterate people, with infrastructural, cultural, and socio-economic factors hindering equitable access to quality education. Due to the rapidly growing technology and Internet usage in the country, open educational resources (OER) […]

Follett Acquires Fishtree Adaptive Learning Platform

MCHENRY, Ill., July 12, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — Follett today announced that it has acquired Fishtree, a leading adaptive learning platform that streamlines both the technical integration and educational adoption of personalized learning in school classrooms. Follett will integrate the machine-based learning tools of Fishtree within Follett’s industry leading Destiny content and resource management platform used by […]

Canvas Announces Badges Powered By Badgr For All Canvas Users

SALT LAKE CITY, July 25, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — Canvas by Instructure, the open learning management system (LMS) that makes teaching and learning easier, will now offer Open Badges through Badgr as a native feature in Canvas. Badgr is an achievement recognition and tracking system built by Concentric Sky that is used to issue, organize and share […]

The Babel Problem with Big Data in Higher Ed

Rather that creating a “data gumbo” rich with integrated data sources, most colleges still experience “data babel” – critical operational challenges that involve applications, platforms and data bases that do not “talk” with one another and are difficult to integrate. Inside Higher Ed

YouTube’s latest initiative aims to foster educational content

YouTube Learning will provide grants for and promote educational content to help elevate users who want to share their knowledge and expertise. edscoop

Free Digital Textbooks vs. Purchased Commercial Textbooks

A large-scale study at the University of Georgia has found that college students provided with free course materials at the beginning of a class get significantly better academic results than those that do not. The Georgia study, published this week, compared the final grades of students enrolled in eight large undergraduate courses between 2010 and […]

Cengage Contributes Openly Licensed Content to OER Community

BOSTON, July 16, 2018 – Cengage, an education and technology company, is contributing the narrative content for three openly licensed textbooks, as well as the learning objectives and assessments for 12 course areas as Open Educational Resources (OER). The Creative Commons Attribution licensed (CC BY) narrative content and the learning objectives are available to download […]

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