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T.H.E. Journal October 21, 2009 Ruth Reynard |
Bridging the Gap Between Online and On-ground Teaching Increasing numbers of studies are being done that seem to support the notion that blended course delivery or program delivery really captures the best of every possible world and, as such, is an effective way of learning for students. |
T.H.E. Journal May 14, 2009 Ruth Reynard |
Technology's Impact on Learning Outcomes: Can It Be Measured? The ongoing debate on the effectiveness of technology use for student learning outcomes still seems to have no clear answers. |
T.H.E. Journal October 1, 2009 |
Technology's Impact on Effective Teaching Strategies Much is significantly different when online tools are used in instruction simply because the contexts of learning and tools used, as well as modes of delivery, differ so greatly. |
T.H.E. Journal September 2, 2009 Ruth Reynard |
5 Ways We're Diminishing Learning by Assuming Face-to-Face Instruction Is Best Face-to-face instruction is often assumed to be the proven method, while other methods have yet to prove themselves. This assumption is not only misleading, but it might also be helping to diminish potential opportunities of better learning for our students. |
HBS Working Knowledge May 21, 2014 Michael Blanding |
CORe: HBS Powers Up Online Program on Business Fundamentals Harvard Business School's new online primer on the fundamentals of business aims to translate some of the School's unique classroom teaching methods to the Web. |
T.H.E. Journal April 2001 Glenn Gordon Smith, David Ferguson, Mieke Caris |
Teaching College Courses Online vs Face-to-Face What can faculty members expect from the experience of teaching college courses on the Web? |
T.H.E. Journal March 18, 2009 Ruth Reynard |
The Suitability of Technology-based Education for Skills Development Skill development now refers not only to specific technical skills for specific vocations but to the development of workplace skills (or competencies) and personal development skills as well. |
T.H.E. Journal August 2001 Alvin Y. Wang & Michael H. Newlin, University of Central Florida |
Online Lectures: Benefits for the Virtual Classroom Most Web-based courses rely primarily on asynchronous communication to deliver course information to students. With this form of interaction, instructors and students do not interact simultaneously. Most courses would benefit from the addition of synchronous communication... |
Information Today August 30, 2012 Abby Clobridge |
MOOCs and the Changing Face of Higher Education Massive Open Online Courses can expand access to learning opportunities, eliminate many geographic and economic barriers to education, create more diverse learning communities, transform lifelong learning, and augment face-to-face and traditional education in new ways. |
IEEE Spectrum May 2012 Tekla S. Perry |
John L. Hennessy: Risk Taker Stanford University's president predicts the death of the lecture hall as university education moves online |
T.H.E. Journal July 27, 2010 |
A Tool for Its Time A new functionality has so transformed learning management systems that their manufacturers prefer the term digital learning platform, to better reflect their products' capacity to do a great deal more than manage a classroom. |
D-Lib Mar/Apr 2013 Forrest Wright |
What do Librarians Need to Know About MOOCs? The emergence of MOOCs represents a rising trend of removing the learning process from the physical campus, but to an exaggerated degree. This is not necessarily a negative trend; however it does have huge implications for university libraries. |
T.H.E. Journal July 15, 2009 Ruth Reynard |
Beyond Social Networking: Building Toward Learning Communities Social networking is only the beginning of a longer and more complex process of socially constructed learning and ultimately collaboration and knowledge building. |
T.H.E. Journal May 2001 Gregory Farrington & Stephen Bronack |
Sink or Swim? Higher education online: how do we know what works --- and what doesn't? |
T.H.E. Journal November 1, 2010 |
2020 Vision: Experts Forecast What the Digital Revolution Will Bring Next A discussion about how far we've come in education technology, and where we can expect to go. |
Commercial Investment Real Estate Jul/Aug 2014 |
Blended Learning Blended learning -- a combination of classroom, independent study, and online instruction for commercial real estate -- is more than an educational fad for CCIM members. |
T.H.E. Journal May 2002 Alvin Y. Wang & Michael H. Newlin |
Predictors of Performance in the Virtual Classroom The ability of instructors to identify at-risk cyber-students quickly is critical because the usual cues associated with student anxiety, inattentiveness or apathy are not present in the virtual classroom... |
CAUSE/EFFECT Vol 22 Num 2 1999 Dorothy A. Frayer |
Creating a Campus Culture to Support a Teaching and Learning Revolution How can a college or university best support the faculty in the process of rethinking courses and curricula to unleash the truly revolutionary potential for technology to enhance learning?... |
D-Lib Nov/Dec 2015 Sam Searle |
Using Scenarios in Introductory Research Data Management Workshops for Library Staff This case study describes the inclusion of a scenario-based group learning activity in introductory research data management workshops for librarians at two Australian universities |
Information Today October 1, 2013 Nancy K. Herther |
Google Gives MOOC Development a Major Push Google and edX announced a partnership to "jointly develop the edX open source learning platform, Open edX, and expand the availability of the Massive Open Online Course platform and its learning tools to individuals and institutions around the world." |
D-Lib Jul/Aug 2010 Markey et al. |
The Benefits of Integrating an Information Literacy Skills Game into Academic Coursework: A Preliminary Evaluation BiblioBouts seeks to satisfy student requests for a gaming experience directly integrated into their current coursework. |
T.H.E. Journal May 2005 Li Wang |
Technology Integration in Foreign Language Teaching Demonstrates the Shift From a Behavioral to a Constructivist Learning Approach Do we need technology in language classrooms? What kinds of services do computer technologies provide for these classrooms? |
D-Lib Mar/Apr 2011 Diekema et al. |
Teaching Use of Digital Primary Sources for K-12 Settings This paper describes learning outcomes of a three-day workshop on integrating primary sources into K-12 teaching. |
T.H.E. Journal February 2001 Melinda G. Cerny & Jesse M. Heines |
Evaluating Distance Education Across Twelve Time Zones On the evening of September 9, 1999, the Singapore-MIT Alliance (SMA) launched the first of nine new, highly collaborative engineering subjects for the fall semester. By the end of the first year, 17 new subjects would be offered to the first class of SMA students... |
Information Today July 23, 2012 |
Desire2Learn Announces New Integration Partnerships Desire2Learn, Inc., a provider of teaching and learning platforms, and Cengage Learning, a provider of teaching, learning, and research solutions, announced the availability of enhanced interoperability of Cengage Learning's digital content and solutions within the Desire2Learn platform. |
T.H.E. Journal May 2009 Rama Ramaswami |
Even! But No Longer Odd Once regarded as an unconventional alternative for atypical students, virtual schools have achieved mainstream acceptance, and are now seen as providing an education equal to - if not better than - what their traditional counterpart offers. |
T.H.E. Journal April 2001 Margaret Gagne & Morgan Shepherd |
A Comparison Between a Distance and a Traditional Graduate Accounting Class The increasing popularity of online courses naturally leads to a consideration of the effectiveness of these courses - particularly in comparison with on-campus courses. The purpose of this paper is to provide such a comparison for an introductory accounting MBA course... |
T.H.E. Journal September 1, 2010 |
Reshaping RTI: Building a Better Triangle Virginia Buysse is a senior scientist at the FPG Child Development Institute at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where a research program she helped develop detects and addresses learning deficits through intervention in early childhood. |
T.H.E. Journal January 2001 |
Faculty and Reference Librarians A Virtual Dynamic Duo At Santa Fe Community College (SFCC) in Gainesville, Fla., continuous steps are underway to facilitate the redesign of teaching and learning environments as a proactive measure for remodeling old styles of instruction in order to blend newer styles of education effectively in a digital age... |
T.H.E. Journal November 2004 Patricia Deubel |
Guidelines for Selecting Quality K-12 Online Courses The guidelines presented in this article will prove helpful for key stakeholders involved with or considering K-12 online learning. |
Chemistry World May 21, 2014 Rebecca Trager |
To lecture or not to lecture? A meta analysis has shown that there are better ways to teach science to college students than lectures. |
HHMI Bulletin Feb 2012 |
Raising Their Game When done right professional development can make a real difference for students. |
D-Lib Sep/Oct 2015 Mary Wu |
The Future of Institutional Repositories at Small Academic Institutions: Analysis and Insights While all institutional repositories have experienced the same obstacles relating to a lack of faculty participation, those at small universities face unique challenges. |
Information Today March 21, 2013 Nancy K. Herther |
SAGE Strikes Gold with Andy Field's New Statistics Textbook/Ebook Sussex University's Andy Field has found his way through the challenges and opportunities of textbook creation brilliantly to create an award-winning and wildly popular brand in the unlikely area of quantitative research methods. |
Information Today July 29, 2014 Barbie E. Keiser |
Reimagining Information Literacy Competencies ACRL completed the final document of a new Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education, which its task force will submit to ACRL's board of directors at its October meeting. |
T.H.E. Journal September 2000 Dr. Lundie Spence, Dr. Harriett S. Stubbs & Dr. Richard A. Huber |
TelEE A Description of an Interactive Telecommunication Graduate Course |
Information Today May 7, 2012 |
MIT and Harvard Launch a `Revolution in Education' Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) joined forces to offer free online courses in a project aimed at attracting millions of online learners around the world. |
T.H.E. Journal September 2005 Podoll & Randle |
Building a Virtual High School...click by click South Dakota's Rapid City Academy finds out just what it takes to provide a diverse population of students the flexibility offered by online learning. |
T.H.E. Journal October 25, 2007 Ferdig & Boyer |
Can Game Development Impact Academic Achievement? Having students develop games has shown tremendous promise for motivating students, building conceptual knowledge, and improving content knowledge acquisition. |
T.H.E. Journal July 1, 2009 David Nagel |
Meta-Analysis: Is Blended Learning Most Effective? The United States Department of Education reported recently that it's found some evidence to support the notion that blended learning is more effective than either face to face or online learning by themselves. |
T.H.E. Journal October 1, 2010 John K. Waters |
Dream On: Visionary Educators and Their Big Ideas The four educators we've chosen to spotlight as visionaries conceived, developed, and guided technology-driven initiatives perhaps initially thought to be impractical. |
T.H.E. Journal April 2002 Drew Tiene |
Digital Multimedia & Distance Education: Can They Effectively Be Combined? Two of the most dynamic instructional technologies available to today's educators are multimedia-based learning and distance education. I worked with a system that has attempted to marry these two approaches... |
HHMI Bulletin Aug 2011 |
Michelle Withers: Extolling the Teacher-Scientist I create learning activities so students come up with their own answers. I need to figure out what questions will get them there. How can I guide them to figure it out? |
T.H.E. Journal March 2003 Edwina Spodark |
Five Obstacles to Technology Integration at a Small Liberal Arts University An "enabling environment" is a precondition to institutional change. These environments include: universal student access, reliable networks, multiple opportunities for training and consulting, and "a faculty ethos which values experimentation and toleration of falters." |
Information Today October 24, 2011 |
Cengage Learning to Improve Interoperability With Sakai Courseware Management Platform The collaboration leverages the power of Cengage Learning's MindLinks integration to deliver improved ease of use for students, instructors, and administrators. |
T.H.E. Journal April 2001 Joshua D. Baron & Mercedes M. McKay |
Designing and Delivering an Online Course for K-12 Educators The design and delivery of a distance education course are complex undertakings. This is partly because the development process involves many interrelated elements that must work in unison to form a single system for learning... |
Information Today November 3, 2015 Marydee Ojala |
IT Trends Revealed at EDUCAUSE Unveiled in Indianapolis were the top 10 IT issues of 2016. EDUCAUSE grouped the issues into three themes: Differentiate, Reinvest, and Divest. |
T.H.E. Journal September 9, 2009 Dian Schaffhauser |
Which Came First - The Technology or the Pedagogy? A new spin on an old riddle goes to the heart of a conflict between K-12 schools and the colleges of education responsible for cultivating and providing them with new teachers. |
HBS Working Knowledge June 25, 2014 Michael Blanding |
FIELD Trip: Conquering the Gap Between Knowing and Doing Forget what you remember about school field trips. Harvard Business School is in its fourth year of a bold innovation that ships all first-year students on global excursions. |
Searcher May 2006 Barbie E. Keiser |
Beyond ERIC: The Early Years (Part 3) As education moves us from the realm of the child to the adult, the emphasis of the resources shifts from education to learning, with greater responsibility placed on the student for finding, using, sharing, and expanding knowledge in a particular discipline. |