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25 novembre 2018

Harvard or MIT? Choice may become obsolete with ‘stackable’ online degrees custom-built like Lego, edX CEO says

Screenshot-2018-4-19 Techno-News BlogTechno-News Blog. Speaking in Cambridge, Massachusetts last week, edX founder and CEO Professor Anant Agarwal said the firm was working towards launching “stackable” MicroBachelors courses in three years. More...

25 novembre 2018

Life Is Complicated: Distance Learning Helps

Screenshot-2018-4-19 Techno-News BlogTechno-News Blog. Many of these students are traditional age. But for adult students (generally defined as those 25 and over, working full-time jobs or with parenting responsibilities) online education is a particularly attractive option. More...

25 novembre 2018

WHICH WILL DOMINATE ONLINE TUTORING: AI OR THE GIG ECONOMY?

Screenshot-2018-4-19 Techno-News BlogTechno-News Blog. The market for online tutoring is growing rapidly. In April, Technavio estimated the sector would continue to expand at a CAGR of nearly 7% through 2022. Two forces are driving this growth: the gig economy and AI. More...

25 novembre 2018

Fully Online edX Masters Programs

Screenshot-2018-4-19 Techno-News BlogTechno-News Blog. Earlier this month edX announced that starting next fall it would offer fully online Master’s degrees, including ones related to computer science and data science. More...

25 novembre 2018

E-learning for the visually impaired

Screenshot-2018-4-19 Techno-News BlogTechno-News Blog. To make education more accessible and equitable for the blind and visually-impaired (BVI) students, Wawasan Open University (WOU) and St Nicholas Home for the Blind have signed a memorandum of agreement (MoA) to make web accessible e-learning educational resources available to BVIs. More...

20 novembre 2018

Informational Cascades in Online Learning

Informational Cascades in Online Learning
On TRDev the other day, after there occurred a brief discussion of 'groupthink', I posted a note about cascades. My post was not well written, I guess, because it had utterly no influence on the discussion. More...

20 novembre 2018

E-Learning Queen

E-Learning Queen
Started five days ago, E-Learning Queen is a new blog, with three posts to its name. The first, a look at the ethics of video game-based simulation, is well worth a read. More...

19 novembre 2018

Perplexing Problem? Borrow Some Brains

Perplexing Problem? Borrow Some Brains
It's not mentioned in this article, listed via elearningpost, but the advice here is very similar to that documented in James Surowiecki's The Wisdom of Crowds. The premise is that, with some caveats, a group of people will consistently find a better answer than a single person, and often a better answer than even the best individual in the group. More...

14 novembre 2018

The Expansion of Higher Education and the Returns of Distance Education in China

International Review of Research in Open and Distributed LearningThe returns of traditional face-to-face education are widely analyzed, but there is a need for empirical studies on the returns of distance education. Further, comparative studies on returns of both traditional and distance education using high-quality data are rare. Since 1999, continuous and rapid expansions have occurred in the whole Higher Education system in China. More...

13 novembre 2018

A Playful Approach to Fostering Motivation in a Distance Education Computer Programming Course

International Review of Research in Open and Distributed LearningThe central role of motivation to learn in distance education has been noted, and gamification has been proposed as one approach to promote student motivation. This study explores promoting motivation in a distance education, third-year computer programming course via a gamified approach to improve coursework participation and student experience. More...

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