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How IBM Plans to Win Jeopardy!

06.08.2009 13:41    distance-educator.com
IBM's Watson will showcase the latest tricks in natural-language processing.Read the Full Article



7 Things You Should Know About Microblogging

06.08.2009 13:40    distance-educator.com
Microblogging is the practice of posting small pieces of digital contentâ€"which could be text, pictures, links, short videos, or other mediaâ€"on the InterntRead the Full Article

Top-Ten IT Issues, 2009

06.08.2009 13:40    distance-educator.com
How have the events of the past year affected the IT issues of top concern to technology leaders in higher education today? Is higher education IT experiencing an evolution or a revolution? Have new issues emerged on the top-ten list?

Mergers could save NY $133M

06.08.2009 13:40    distance-educator.com
What would happen if the number of school districts in Chautauqua County were reduced from 18 to 11?Read the Full Article

Appellate Court Overturns Blackboard Patent; Blackboard To Press On

04.08.2009 21:11    distance-educator.com
Blackboard's patent on learning management system technologies has been overturned by the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. The court ruled Monday in favor of Desire2Learn and invalidated some claims in patent No. 6,988,138, also known as


Assessing the relationship of student-instructor and student-student interaction to student learning and satisfaction in Web-based Online Learning Environment

04.08.2009 21:11    distance-educator.com
This study shows the importance of interaction to student learning within Web-based online learning programs. The population of this study was students enrolled in multiple academic disciplines at a private university in the Washington, DC Metropolitan area. A Web-based research

An Exploratory Study into the Efficacy of Learning Objects

04.08.2009 21:11    distance-educator.com
Learning objects have quickly become a widely accepted approach to instructional technology, particularly in on-line and computer-based learning environments. While there is a substantial body of literature concerning learning objects, very little of it verifies their efficacy. This research investigated

Online Learner Authentication: Verifying the Identity of Online Users

04.08.2009 21:11    distance-educator.com
This paper addresses how one university has partnered with a corporation to work on the verification of online student identity and describes ongoing efforts to best verify online student identity. Through this collaboration, the university seeks to enhance the credibility

Attrition in Online and Campus Degree Programs

04.08.2009 21:11    distance-educator.com
The purpose of this study was to examine how the mode of instructional delivery, campus face-to-face or online, affected dropout relative to students’ academic and demographic characteristics. A quantitative study was conducted to analyze the academic and demographic characteristics of

Research Areas in Distance Education: A Delphi Study

04.08.2009 21:11    distance-educator.com
This study had three purposes: Firstly, to develop a categorization of research areas in distance education; secondly, to identify the most important research areas in distance education; and thirdly, to identify the most neglected research areas in distance education. Based

Founder Explains U. of the People

20.05.2009 20:55    distance-educator.com
Shai Reshef has a big goal for his new venture: He wants to offer low-cost, quality higher education all over the world, and particularly in countries where options are limited and students have relatively little money. His solution is the

Faculty Opposition Derails Plans for New Online Programs at U. of Toledo

20.05.2009 20:55    distance-educator.com
Faculty opposition has forced the University of Toledo to scrap talks with a private company to develop graduate online programs, The Blade, a newspaper in Toledo, Ohio, reported yesterday. Read the Full Article

Podcast trumps lecture in one college study

20.05.2009 20:55    distance-educator.com
The ability to pause and rewind podcast lectures gave the upper hand to college students in a recent study that compared the performance of students who attended a lecture in person and those who viewed it from iTunes University. Read

Survey: Higher Ed Can Still Make a Difference

20.05.2009 20:55    distance-educator.com
While the majority of Americans see their country falling behind other nations economically, they also believe the nation can improve its standing with more college degrees, according to a new survey from Kaplan. The Kaplan University Education Insights Survey found

Evaluation of E-Portfolio Software

20.05.2009 20:55    distance-educator.com
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