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IT Leadership

Are educators asking the right questions about distance education?

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Online instruction, and testing specifically, can still be considered the Wild West in higher education. It is uncharted territory, quickly expanding with no specific guidelines or hard and…
IT Leadership

Concerns increase over distance education fraud

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Institutions and students participating in online learning may have more to worry about than retention rates and passing grades, thanks to a rise in what the Office of…
IT Leadership

Does it really take longer to create an online course?

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Does the development, and teaching, of online courses really take longer than for face-to-face courses? One researcher recently set out to discover if these existing beliefs can be…
IT Leadership

School powers online learning platform with relationships

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Acton On Demand (AOD)--a platform for immersive online learning--launched publicly today with powerful student completion data, which the school says is due to peer and mentor relationship building…
IT Leadership

Can this technology help solve the distance learning isolation issue?

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It’s a common problem facing universities with satellite campuses and distance learning options: How to keep students from feeling isolated from on-campus classrooms. For example, in 2007, Auburn…
IT Leadership

5 universities taking innovation from buzzword to practice

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Are college and university investments in innovation worth the time and money? Only if your incubators lead to scalable, sustainable success, says new research. A recent report, conducted…