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Over the summer, Frank Donoghue, a professor of English at Ohio State University, and regular contributor to “Innovations: Insights and commentary on higher education” in the Chronicle, wrote … View More
One of The Pew Research Center’s most recent reports emerging from the Social & Demographic Trends Project is the “Digital Revolution and Higher Education Report,” which is based on … View More
StraighterLine.com’s website touts the two-year-old online education provider as a "revolutionizing force in education." They aim to accomplish this ambitious goal by providing less expensive introductory … View More
Every instructor who has designed his or her own course and taught it has actually conducted two rounds of informal usability tests. For the first round, you were the user, and in the second, your students … View More
There are general guidelines for creating a PowerPoint presentation for a face to face audience – don’t put all of your content on the slides, don’t read the slides to the audience, … View More
Higher education is feeling the crunch of a global economic slowdown. From lower enrollment, to budget cuts, to tuition hikes, and dramatic programmatic changes, there is a growing crisis in colleges … View More
A recent Pew Research Center study found that 57% of Americans surveyed felt that higher education does not provide a comparable value for the cost. In addition, 75% of those surveyed believed that, for … View More
While liberal arts colleges are currently under attack for their failure to teach specific, job oriented skills, as this article from Inside Higher ED discusses, there is one often overlooked reason to … View More
What is the Semantic Web What’s the next big thing? The Semantic Web is, according to some tech insiders (including Tim Berners-Lee, the creator of the Internet), the next big thing on the Internet … View More
The Importance of Technology Literacy One fundamental component of an Information Age society is the ability of its citizens to use information and communication technology (ICT) to communicate with each … View More