Higher Ed Tech News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor. The University of California, Irvine (UCI) Extension is offering two new online courses designed to help teachers develop their skills in cognitive and student-centered learning. More...
Creating Engaging Assignments
Higher Ed Tech News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor. Miller (2011) defined student engagement as “students’ willingness to actively participate in the learning process and to persist despite obstacles and challenges. More...
The Need to Foster Creativity and Digital Inclusion among Women Users in Developing Context
Higher Ed Tech News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor. This paper provides a literature review aiming to discuss the need for fostering creativity and digital inclusion among women students in developing contexts by addressing the second order digital divide in online skills. More...
Apple Watch, wearable technology raising cheating fears at universities
Higher Ed Tech News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor. The Apple Watch is being banned in universities and standardized testing centers worldwide to prevent cheating. The Apple Watch, along with other wearable technology, is forcing a number of universities and colleges to institute bans on the technology to curb potential cheating on exams and tests. More...
More steps toward online school
Higher Ed Tech News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor. Every Virginia student enrolling in high school this fall must take a course online, or part of a course, in order to fulfill state-mandated requirements for graduation. More...
Report: Ed Sector Target of More Malware Events than any Other
Higher Ed Tech News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor. More than a third of all malware events in 2014 occurred within the education sector, according to NTT Com Security’s 2015 Global Threat Intelligence Report (GTIR). More...
Future of textbooks increasingly looks digital
Higher Ed Tech News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor. Students and teachers in some University of Georgia introductory biology courses experimented with using a free digital textbook instead of expensive paper texts in fall 2013 courses, and liked it. More...
8 open source platforms for IT consideration
Higher Ed Tech News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor. Usually, the higher-ed industry has a reputation as being one of the slowest adopters of new technology. But when it comes to open source software (OSS), campus IT departments are ahead of other industry and consumer tech adoption curves, says Scott Wilson, service manager of OSS Watch at the University of Oxford. More...
Choking on AIR
By Matt Reed and Susanna Williams. “Overly high attendance rates at community colleges are part of a larger problem…” - Harry Holzer, AIR Institute Fellow
In an Intro to Philosophy class so many years ago, a professor told the story of the turtles. A student asked what held the world up, and the teacher responded that the world sat on the back of a turtle. Read more...
Offsite and Online
By Matt Reed. This interview with Christine Chairsell, the Vice President for Academic and Student Affairs at Portland Community College (OR), piqued my curiosity. It’s about the relationship between off-campus instructional sites or centers, and online education. Read more...