Online Learning Update

A study of asynchronous and synchronous e-learning methods discovered that each supports different purposes. Today’s workforce is expected to be highly educated and to continually improve skills an...

A unified approach to the presentation of information for online learning can inform the creation of pedagogically effective web pages. In moving information onto a computer, people generally assum...

Traditional models of technology integration can be classified into three general categories or perspectives: (a) learning about, (b) from, or (c) with technology. However, the increase in networki...

A new study suggests that social networking is a beneficial activity, despite concerns about young people spending too much time tethered to the Internet and worries over online predators. Creating...

The goal of the study was to explore post-secondary students’ purposes for blogging with particular attention to the social and instructional purposes. The sample of blogs came from an all-women’s ...

Japanese distance education has been slow to utilize the Internet, and mainly depends on the mail system and, to a lesser extent, television broadcasting as its mode of delivery. Since 2001, howeve...

Current comparative research literature, although abundant in scope, is inconclusive in its findings, as to the quality and effectiveness of distance education versus face-to-face methods of delive...

In Uruguay -- a small nation in terms of territory and population, lacking in natural resources but rich in democratic traditions -- innovation and development are closely interconnected with equal...

One Laptop Per Child is reviving Give One, Get One promotion on Monday in its effort to put affordable, educational notebooks in the hands of third-world children. Basically, if a consumer buys an ...

Videoconferencing, once a privilege used by military commanders and agency executives, has gone mainstream.... The recent buzz is over telepresence, which is video and audio so realistic that they ...