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Chromebooks for Teachers Through 12/21 for $99
The following are excerpts from the Chromebook and Donors Choose sites: Through 12/21, Google is providing an exclusive opportunity through DonorsChoose.org for public school teachers to request the...
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Verbling, Touchscreens, Tablets, Smartphones etc.
Online Education Programs Tackle Student Cheating by Ryan Lytle from US News & World Report Lytle reports on various issues involved in online courses such as cheating on tests and plagiarism....
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Babson 2013 Online Education Survey Report Released
By Jim Shimabukuro Editor I. Elaine Allen and Jeff Seaman, co-directors of The Babson Survey Research Group, Babson College, MA, announced this morning the release of their 2013 report, Changing...
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Sugata Mitra, MOOCs, and Minimally Invasive Education
By Jim Shimabukuro Editor Sugata Mitra, winner of the 2013 TED Prize, reminds us that, as educators, we may be so consumed by teaching that we ignore learning, that there’s a fundamental difference...
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Interactive Holographic Images Preserve Stories of Holocaust Survivors
By Lynn Zimmerman Associate Editor Editor, Teacher Education As part of their programming on April 8, 2013, which was Holocaust Remembrance Day, WBUR Here & Now broadcast a story that illustrated a...
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Wholesale Adoption of iPads by Schools a Mistake
By Harry Keller Editor, Science Education [Note: The following article first appeared as a comment on Morgan Sims's "Mobile Technology Finding a Place in the Classroom." -Editor] I do not desire to...
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Can America’s Wasted Talent Be Harnessed Through the Power of Internet Based...
By Jim Riggs Professor, Advanced Studies in Education College of Education CSU Stanislaus President Emeritus, Columbia College (1997-2007) For nearly 150 years, the American dream of a better life of...
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The Symbiosis of College and Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs)
By Kenji Mori Student at Kapi’olani Community College University of Hawai’i Information Technology has great potential for education. As one college student says, “It allows for a plethora of knowledge...
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Cyberlearning Summit 2014: A Quick Recap
By Vic Sutton [Note: See Bonnie Bracey Sutton's report. -Editor] There is reportedly a wealth of research being conducted unto cyberlearning, but there are no clear views about how to translate...
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What Does Cyberlearning Mean to You? Cyberlearning Summit 2014
By Bonnie Bracey Sutton Associate Editor (Note: See Vic Sutton’s report on this conference. -Editor) Teachers working in classrooms need ideas and frameworks and support for initiatives beyond the...
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Free Reading and eReaders Can Raise Achievement
By Lynn Zimmerman Associate Editor Editor, Teacher Education In Valerie Strauss’s Washington Post blog, Answer Sheet, guest writer Joanne Yatvin, in “Why Kids Should Choose Their Own Books to Read in...
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The Issue of Part-Time Community College Students
By Jim Shimabukuro Editor For college students in general, a 2011 survey found that 75% are part-time. Of these, “Even when given twice as long to complete certificates and degrees, no more than a...
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The Future of Tablets — and More
By Harry Keller Editor, Science Education Recent news of a drop in iPad sales1 by Apple triggered some thoughts. Reporting that educational sales of iPads are still on the rise prompted more thinking....
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Who Dat? It’s E-Learn 2014! Come, Learn, Share, Connect
By Stefanie Panke Editor, Social Software in Education The 19th annual international conference AACE E-Learn took place from October 27-30 in the sunny, warm and welcoming climate of the city of New...
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Weary Professors Abandon Technology?
By Harry Keller Editor, Science Education According to US News & World Report, “[P]rofessors say they don’t have enough help to use this technology effectively, haven’t seen results from it, and...
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Free Webinar: ‘Using Technology to Engage Students’ 2/23/15 3pm EST
From Macmillan Higher Education 2/17/15: Join us on Monday, February 23rd at 3pm EST for a complimentary webinar on “Using Technology to Engage Students” with Solina Lindahl of Cal Poly San Luis...
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MOOC Sightings 001: UNC and Cornell
Despite wholesale announcements by powerful academic leaders throughout the U.S. that MOOCs are dead, sightings continue to pour in from around the country and the rest of the world. For skeptics, the...
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MOOC Sightings 004: Outside the Box with Ontario’s Judy Morris
As in all things MOOC, look northward to Canada for the prevailing winds, and this time it’s to Ontario, and more specifically, to president and CEO of Lambton College Judy Morris. “Over the last few...
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CFE 2015 Faculty Showcase at UNC: ‘Teaching Less in More Depth’
By Stefanie Panke Editor, Social Software in Education Last week, I had the pleasure of attending the 5th annual Center for Faculty Excellence (CFE) Faculty Showcase at the University of North Carolina...
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Smartphones, Tablets & Subtitles for Language Learning
NY program uses phone calls, text messages to teach English by Deepti Hajela, Associated Press, 30 Nov. 2015. Using basic phone technology, New York state has created lessons for English language...
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