I can’t tell if this is the best time to bring this up, but I am going to anyway. By the time you read this blog, USC graduation will be about a week old. This means that within the next three months or so, most graduates, except those who are continuing on to new academic [...]
Bailey, J. (2012) TurnItIn Analyzes the Spectrum of Plagiarism, Plagiarism Today, May 10 TurnItIn (2012) The Plagiarism Spectrum: Instructor Insights into the 10 Types of Plagiarism, TurnItIn, the creator of anti-plagiarism software, has produced a useful if somewhat picky report on different types of plagiarism. Useful comments from Jonathan Bailey in Plagiarism Today. It is important [...]
This is the third in a series of guest blogs on innovative developments in online learning in Ontario post-secondary institutions. (The first was examples of hybrid learning and the second was examples of virtual worlds. simulations and mobile apps.) In this post, Judith Tobin of Contact North| Contact Nord focuses on examples of faculty and professional [...]
L. Rafael Reif, a distinguished electrical engineer, who is completing his seven-year tenure as MIT’s provost, has been selected as the 17th president of the Institute. As the Institute’s chief academic officer since 2005, Reif led the development of MITx, the Institute’s new initiative in online learning; and led MIT’s role in the formation of edX, the recently [...]
TED-Ed combines excellent content with innovative features to deliver a powerful resource for today’s educators. Earlier this month, educators and technology advocates across the world were delighted by the launch of the new “TED-Ed” YouTube channel devoted exclusively to educational content. After just two short weeks, the channel already has 50,000+ subscribers and over a [...]
Tegrity Celebrates 6th Annual User Conference By Honoring Institutions Of Excellence With Customer Appreciation Awards
More than 15 universities recognized for their dedication to expanding lecture capture technology usage nationwide
Tegrity, a unit of McGraw-Hill Higher Education and a leading provider of lecture capture solutions for the higher education industry, today announced the winners...
State Fall 2005 Fall 2006 Fall 2007 Fall 2008 Fall 2009 Fall 2010 California 5.43% 6.46% 6.20% 6.81% 8.20% 8.67% Texas 3.89% 2.16% 1.94% 1.90% 2.08% 2.41% New York 3.97% 1.63% 1.74% 1.73% 1.78% 1.92% Florida 9.52% 4.60% 5.14% 5.16% 6.05% 7.58% Arizona 41.18% 60.32% 67.01% 63.70% 73.06% 74.25% These are some interesting numbers. [...]
Szalavitz, M. (2012) Do E-Books Make It Harder to Remember What You Just Read? Time Healthland, March 14 This excellent article looks at research done at the University of Leicester, and also draws on experience from a number of people, that suggests that ‘physical books are best when you want to study complex ideas and concepts [...]
Submissions for the 2012 International E-Learning Awards – Academic Division, presented by the International E-Learning Association (IELA), are due soon! The Entry Submission Page is posted on the IELA site and the deadline for submission is June 1, 2012. Awards will be given for successful courses, sites, and products, in three categories: e-learning, blended learning, and mobile [...]
5th Annual Sloan Consortium/MERLOT Emerging Technologies for Online Learning International Symposium July 25-27, 2012 The Venetian and Palazzo Resort – Las Vegas, Nevada This joint symposium of Sloan Consortium and MERLOT is devoted to the emerging and innovative uses of technology designed to improve teaching and learning online. What started as a small gathering of [...]