Exploring the latest developments in the technology and pedagogy of higher education, Technological Advances in Interactive Collaborative Learning, edited by Nia Alexandrov, Raul Ramirez Velarde, and Vassil Alexandrov, presents information technology-oriented educational programs for the next generation of scientists and researchers. It highlights the importance of technology, pedagogy, and management in the higher-education ecosystem. With a focus on technological innovations, the book explains how Web 2.0 technologies can enhance collaborative learning, and how immersive…
A Bill of Rights and Principles for Learning in the Digital Age
January 24, 2013EdSurge discusses a Bill of Rights and Principles, newly developed by a group of people passionate about learning, serving today’s students, and using every available tool to respond better to the needs of students in a global, interactive, digitally connected world....
Digital Content: What Does the Future Hold for Education Systems?
January 23, 2013GETideas.org hosted this GooglePlus hangout on the future of digital content. The online discussion featured a panel of education experts, including Nicole Allen, affordable-textbooks advocate, Student PIRGS; Una Daly, communication college outreach director, OpenCourseWare Consortium; and Cable Green, director of global...
Explaining Inequalities in School Achievement: A Realist Analysis
January 22, 2013In Explaining Inequalities in School Achievement, author Roy Nash argues that a realist framework for the sociological explanation of educational group differences can, and must be, constructed. A move to such an explanatory framework will allow society to take into account the...
Education 3.0: Seven Steps to Better Schools
January 14, 2013In Education 3.0: Seven Steps to Better Schools, renowned educator and technology expert Jim Lengel provides a refreshing and hopeful picture of what schools should look like, including a groundbreaking seven-step process for envisioning and building them that draws on the...
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January 10, 2013Assessment of Higher Education Learning Outcomes (AHELO) is the result of a feasibility study from the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) designed to assess the possibility of developing international measures of learning outcomes in higher ed. Volume one in a series, this report covers measurement design and implementation.
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January 10, 2013There has been growing talk about the “crisis” in higher education. Politicians are calling for major overhauls of both public and private colleges. Tuition is still outpacing inflation even in the face of a tsunami of bad press. The public is rapidly losing confidence in the ability of higher education to provide the tools today’s students require. In The Idea of the Digital University, authors Frank Bryce McCluskey and Melanie Lynn…
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January 9, 2013This publication from the National Center for Education Statistics (U.S.) provides projections for key education data on enrollment, graduates, teachers, and expenditures in elementary and secondary schools, and enrollment and earned degrees conferred expenditures of degree-granting institutions. For the nation, the tables, figures, and text contain data on enrollment, teachers, graduates, and expenditures for the past 14 years and projections to the year 2021. For the 50 states and the…
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January 8, 2013This WestEd report describes the importance of acceleration, explains how it raises completion rates for community colleges, and highlights the key principles of successful acceleration models, including: Helping students avoid developmental education whenever possible Revising the developmental education curriculum to shorten the sequence, align it with transfer-level and career technical coursework, and make it more rigorous Providing additional student supports that are integrated with coursework Providing remediation simultaneously with courses…
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January 8, 2013This WestEd report outlines some of the major issues that community colleges are discussing or experimenting with that are related to the creation of more structured student pathways toward degree completion, including: Mandating intake processes that provide education and career counseling, inform students about programs that are related to their interests, and help students explore and develop education goals, career goals, and a degree plan Balancing flexibility and prescription in…
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January 8, 2013Sloan-C’s 2012 Survey of Online Learning reveals that the number of U.S. students taking at least one online course has now surpassed 6.7 million, with 32% of college students taking at least one course online. Higher-ed adoption of massive open online courses (MOOCs) remains low, with most institutions still on the sidelines.Only 2.6% percent of universities currently have a MOOC, although another 9.4% report that MOOCs are in the planning…
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January 7, 2013As the global commitment to educational access has become enshrined in all levels of society, new technologies have also been developed that hold tremendous promise for enabling these goals. This new reality provides vastly expanded possibilities for international collaboration, knowledge building, sharing of best practices, and new ways to teach, both within the classroom and without. Post-Secondary Education and Technology, edited by Rebecca Clothey, Stacy Austin-Li and John C. Weidman, looks at trends and…
