Winter 2010 - Volume 13 Issue 4 by Alicia David and Peyton Glore Previous studies conducted on dropouts within online courses have found inconsistent factors affecting attrition. A literature review was performed, focusing on eight main studies. These studies were performed at both national and international universities. The methodology, participants, resea […]
Winter 2010 - Volume 13 Issue 4 by Don Chaney, Elizabeth Chaney and James Eddy Over the past ten years, a significant increase in courses and programs taught through distance education technologies has occurred both in non-for-profit and for-profit colleges and universities. During this time, there have been many successes and failures. The researchers hypot […]
In the 60's, 70's and 80's, recording producers and engineers relies on analog systems for music production. All of these gears such as the mixing console, effects units, etc are analog based. Many expensive and big studios are still using... […]
Hi everyone, I am Oksana from Ukraine and my name is pronounced as AKH-SAH-NAH. You would probably wonder why do I describe this in detail. The thing is that my paper is focused on names and the reasons why... […]
Here is the talk I gave at TEDx Duke ” Preparing Your Children for a World you can Barely Imagine.” Some of the images are a bit pixelated but you can get a copy of the slides in my previous post. For those who prefer text….here ’tis: CHART 1: TITLE Today I want to share […]
Just back from a jam-packed day at TEDx Duke. The speakers were fantastic, insightful and inspiring. Here is a picture someone took of me as I riffed about the Third Derivative Rate of Change (Jerk) and how technology is literally Jerking Humanity around. Many of the folks who came up to me after my talk […]
During the Fall 2011 semester, Dr. Cheryl Lin used iPads in conjunction with her Marketing Management course, encouraging students to use the digital version of the textbook. She also offered various teaching materials online in order to gauge how students might better exchange ideas and share notes. Students who elected to use an iPad in […]
We first mentioned Sakai project sites when they became available to the Duke community in November. As part of the transition from Blackboard to Sakai, the Duke Sakai Team has migrated over 600 Blackboard Organization (or ‘ORG’) sites to Sakai project sites. ORG site leaders can now log into […]
Evidence-based practice increases success in online education January issue of Sloan Consortium’s Journal of Asynchronous Learning Networks features findings contributed by faculty researchers aread more […]
In my GETInsight blog post this month, I share some very candid reflections about teaching online within the parameters of web accessibility policies. As you read the post, I encourage you to reflect on how the enforcement of policy, at all costs, can cultivate a culture of fear which can, in turn, create a chilling effect that prevents experimentation, ris […]
This is the first week of my online History of Photography class. I am gently guiding my students into our class which is peppered with emerging technologies including Google Apps, Ning, and VoiceThread. To get them started this week, I have a fun, simple activity that they engage in.The activity is titled My Favorite Photograph and the objectives are:To h […]
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