Enrollment of UNLV online learning distance education courses continued its steady rise in fall 2007, according to the UNLV Office of Institutional Analysis and Planning's Selected Institutional Characteristics, also known as the UNLV Fact Book. From 1998 to fall 2007, enrollment in distance learning has gone up by an astounding 23,931. Judith Osterman, director of distance education, said this

The exploitation of technological advances in learning has result in an exponential progress in this field through e-learning applications in the last decade, and currently through the emergence of a new concept called m-learning. M-learning is defined as the use of mobile technologies for learning; m-learning must benefit from e-learning technological advances in order to avoid reinventing the

Virtual community and on-line resource portal for PhD students. A unique web-based cyber community to support Mäori PhD students has been launched at a symposium, in Palmerston North on Wednesday. The community has been developed by the University's Te Mata o Te Tau – Academy for Mäori Research and Scholarship – in an effort to create a virtual community and resource portal for the more than 70

Blackboard, the dominant player in course management software, has the ability to inspire devotion and, for the more fervid open-source adherents, not a little contempt. So today’s announcement may cause a stir among those more apt to liken Blackboard to the devil than a gentle giant: The company is partnering with Syracuse University to develop a way to integrate Blackboard with Sakai, one of

The purpose of the proposed research is to design and implement a LabVIEW-based remote lab client to run on a TCP/IP enabled PDA (Personal Digital Assistant) device, thus teaching using this wireless m-learning system will not be limited by time and location. In addition, resources and equipments can be integrated and shared to the extent that critically events can be monitored and handled in

As textbook prices skyrocket, college students and faculty seeking more affordable options increasingly are turning to "open textbooks" as an alternative.Open textbooks are free textbooks available online that are licensed to allow users to download, customize and print any part of the text. Professors can change content to fit their teaching styles. Some authors offer a print-on-demand service

Realising the Internet's potential in disseminating the Dhamma worldwide, the German Dharmaduta Society, Colombo, invited the Australian Buddhist monk Ven. Pannyavaro, Founder and Web Master of the Sydney-based Buddha Net (www.buddhanet.net) - a non-sectarian Buddhist information network, to visit Sri Lanka in year 2001 and deliver a public lecture and conduct a workshop on the theme ' Buddhism

Millions of teens in the U.S.about to start the school year with expectations of becoming licensed drivers are looking to online distance learning to fulfill their drivers education requirement. School Districts, educators, and students alike are embracing the flexible DriversEd.com Course. Students approaching driving age have all had some sort of experience online and with interactive games,"

When school starts this fall, every student in Mobile's public high schools will have access to courses offered over the Internet. That's progress. Indeed, every public high school student in the state will have access to distance learning courses by 2011, through a state program that uses technology to bring advanced and remedial courses into schools that can't afford them otherwise. In this

The structure and composite nature of a learning object is still open to interpretation. Although several theoretical studies advocate integrated approaches to the structure and aggregation level of learning objects, in practice, many content specifications, such as SCORM, IMS Content Packaging, and course authoring tools, do not explicitly state the aggregation level or granularity of learning

In this paper, we analyse how contextualised media can be used to support learning. Additionally, the advantages of contextualised learning and the types of learning that are fit to be supported are discussed. Our focus throughout the paper will be on lifelong learning, and the integration of formal and informal learning therein. However, we think, to this date, most of the research concerning

Recent advances in ubiquitous computing technologies have brought reality augmentation of traditional objects to context-aware and social supports. Although a significant proportion of students prefer poring over traditional paper textbooks over electronic books, few studies have enhanced reading practice of traditional books with ubiquitous context-aware and collaborative learning supports that

As compositionists, we can learn from encyclopedic enthusiasts, musicians, and news junkies who are testing the limits of new literacy tools. We need to revise our courses and practices to better account for the demands of new collaborative literacies. Because environments like the ones we listed above thrive all over the Internet, we should encourage our students to write in them; we can use

This webtext presents a tool for assessing the scholarly value of online journal publications. It is part of a larger study that uses Kairos webtexts to investigate the scholarly nature of online texts. The goal of this larger study is to deliver a rubric as an instrument to facilitate the acceptance of online texts within English Studies as evidence of scholarship for professional advancement.

This article describes selected results from the Math Online (MOL) study, one of three field investigations sponsored by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) to explore the use of new technology in NAEP. Of particular interest in the MOL study was the comparability of scores from paper- and computer-based tests. A nationally representative sample of eighth-grade students was

Modern information technology and computer science curricula employ a variety of graphical tools and development environments to facilitate student learning of introductory programming concepts and techniques. While the provision of interactive features and the use of visualization can enhance students’ understanding and assist them in grasping fundamental ideas, the real difficulty for many

While delivering the Intelligent Systems course, an elective course in the Master of Business Information Technology program at RMIT University, it was felt that there was a learning issue as students’ learning seemed to be superficial. This perception was based on the questions students asked in class and the mechanical attitude they adopted while doing lab work. In the next version of the

The Internet is also a catalyst for change. U.S. enrollment in online virtual classes reached the 1 million mark last year, 22 times the level seen in 2000, according to the North American Council for Online Learning, an industry body. That's only the beginning, said Michael Horn, co-author of "Disrupting Class: How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the World Learns". "Our projections

Students in higher education today are technologically savvy and expect faculty to use myriad web technologies for course delivery. This includes taking advantage of email, course web sites, and online learning communities. However, expectations now also include RSS, blogs, web-,pod-, and vod-casting, extending the classroom experience to provide active learning materials anytime, anywhere, and

This paper reports on the work of a European Commission DG Education and Culture cofinancedproject PBP-VC, Promoting Best Practice in Virtual Campuses, which is aimed at providinga deeper understanding of the key issues and critical success factors underlying the implementationof virtual campuses. The paper outlines a tentative model of issues underpinning bestpractice in virtual campuses derived