Towards a new pedagogy
This report, from teachonline.ca, looks at the extent to which MOOCs are enabling innovation, engagement and equity in higher education.
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Three takeaways from the SXSWedu Conference
The SXSWedu Conference, an offshoot of the South by Southwest music and film festival, brought together 10,000 participants from various areas of education.
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Personalized learning: What it really is and why it really matters
Phil Hill and Michael Feldstein, co-publishers of the e-Literate blog, offer a framework, based on three years of campus visits, for thinking about how personalized learning can help students.
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Engaged learning in MOOCs: A study using the UK Engagement Survey
The Higher Education Academy in the UK has released a research report that explores MOOC learners’ engagement in learning.
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Persistence patterns in massive open online courses (MOOCs)
A new study published in The Journal of Higher Education examines factors that best predict student engagement, persistence, and completion in MOOCs.
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Making sense of blended learning
In this extensive report, Sir John Daniel, research associate at Contact North and former president and CEO of the Commonwealth of Learning, examines what blended learning is and how it might best be used.
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Examining the use of Facebook and Twitter as an additional social space in a MOOC
A new study from the University of Texas at Austin examines whether, and to what extent, social media can enhance participants’ experience in a MOOC.
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The NMC Horizon Report: 2016 Higher Education Edition
The New Media Consortium (NMC), in collaboration with the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative, has released their 2016 NMC Horizon Report.
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Beyond active learning: Transformation of the learning space
Mark Valenti, president and CEO of The Sextant Group, discusses how learning spaces are evolving.
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New challenges to active learning initiatives
Case Western Reserve University developed an active learning initiative in 2013 and is now reviewing feedback and findings from the program after its second year.
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