University "Indigenization" efforts using Massive Open Online Courses promise to reach wide audiences. They also raise critical questions about how to embody Indigenous ways of knowing and relating.
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E-learning is both a technological and a social innovation. At its best, it can address problems within a particular social context.
It's common knowledge that children are voracious learners but the famous cliche suggests that you can't teach an old dog new tricks. This simply isn't true.
We should accept a modest level of attrition so we can keep providing opportunities for part-time and online students, who might not otherwise be able to study.
The future of education is in the clouds.
The discourse and structure of online learning can exclude English language minority students. Techniques such as video chats, "safe houses" and content-focused grading can support their success.
Universities need to better accommodate student employment to improve the retention of online students.
Even though online learning has finally come into its own in higher education internationally, East Africa appears reluctant to embrace it fully.
With the surge in e-books and digital devices, one concern has been whether students are learning as much. Research shows that some crucial elements of learning are indeed being lost.
A third of families living below poverty level access the Internet only through their phones. And young people from these families get access to few learning opportunities.
It’s no longer acceptable to upload video lectures to a website and call it a course. We need to start redesigning courses from scratch to find new ways to engage students.
Parents and teachers need to be aware of which types of feedback actually help students learn.
Slideshows, when designed right, can be a useful part of online instruction. But they shouldn’t be the main, or the only, method of instruction.
How Massive Open Online Courses are maturing into useful tools.
The way schools and universities teach and test has to keep up with the way young people are processing information.
Lecturers need to flag up graphic material with their students before they click on it.
With low-income kids unable to participate in the social media conversations of their wealthier peers, a new form of digital inequity is emerging.
A recent US survey commissioned by the children’s books publisher Scholastic found that 65% of 6-11 year olds prefer to read print books even when e-books are available on tablets. In the UK, a National…
If you have studied an online course at a university over the past couple of decades, you’ve probably already experienced a SPOC, or Small Private Online Course. SPOC is a new term for an old concept…
Ever since the invention of the printed word, academics have been arguing about the proper place of technology in teaching. On one side are those who I’ll call the traditionalists who insist on the primacy…
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Director of UWA Centre for Software Practice, University of Western Australia
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Professor Emeritus, The University of Queensland
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Associate Professor and Associate Director, Centre for Research in Assessment and Digital Learning, Deakin University
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Associate Professor of Educational Psychology, School of Education & Institute for Teaching and Learning Innovation, The University of Queensland
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Higher Education Program Director, Grattan Institute
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Pro Vice-Chancellor (Learning Transformations), Swinburne University of Technology
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CEO of Smart Sparrow and Adjunct Lecturer, School of Computer Science and Engineering, UNSW
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Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Education), Deakin University
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Chief Executive Officer, Open Universities Australia
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Deputy Director, Australian National Centre for Public Awareness of Science, Australian National University
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