Here’s how Facebook helps students to study online
Higher Ed Tech News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor. In a study that compared MOOC student use of the course’s Facebook groups to use of the built-in course message boards and forums, researchers said students were more engaged on the Facebook groups and also admitted to the researchers that they preferred interacting more on the social media site than through the course tools. More...
Can an Online Education Actually Land You a Job?
Higher Ed Tech News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor. Not only is online learning just as credible as classroom learning, in some cases it can be even better. When you’re learning in a traditional classroom setting, you’re a part of an often large class who the teacher or lecturer has to divide his/her time amongst. More...
Assessing Online Collaborative Learning
Higher Ed Tech News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor. One of the most common concerns about the evaluation of collaborative learning is that even though all participants do not contribute equally, their efforts are grouped with those of their team members in a single score. More...
Game Changer? First-Ever Online Social Gaming Platform for Education
Higher Ed Tech News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor. Online education has been and continues to be the subject of hot debate. On the one hand, the U.S. Department of Education’s analysis of 44 separate studies of online education found its learning outcomes to be as good and—in its “hybrid” form, which combines online with traditional learning—at times superior to traditional education. More...
Will Your E-Learning Be Ready for the Future?
Higher Ed Tech News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor. With the rapid growth of e-learning comes an exponential rise in the number of tools, technologies and flavor-of-the-month market trends that appeal to chief learning officers looking for ways to weave new tools into their development strategies. More...
The Secret Benefits of Online Learning
Higher Ed Tech News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor. Coursera’s goals and priorities are very well-aligned with those of our partner institutions – that’s a large part of the reason that we’ve been able to partner with over 140 of the world’s best universities. More...
How to Keep the Human Element in Online Classes
Higher Ed Tech News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor. While teaching online certainly changes how instructors communicate with their students, the instructor-student relationship is just as vital to the student learning and engagement in online classes as it is in an offline class. More...
6 Steps To Survive a Cyber Attack
Higher Ed Tech News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor. The range and variety of sensitive data in higher education make it difficult to secure. In the event of a breach, this six-phase incident response plan will help guide your institution through the crisis. More...
More UK adults taking online courses
Higher Ed Tech News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor. Adults in the UK are turning to online learning platforms in order to stay competitive in their fields and to learn new skills, despite their increasingly busy schedules. More...
Bellevue U approaches online learning with liberal arts classroom model
Higher Ed Tech News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor. Bellevue University in Nebraska takes a liberal arts approach to online education, focusing on small class sizes and high-touch faculty who provide oversight and guidance to students, and, in turn, improve retention. More...
