online learning

Understanding Gartner's hype cycle

The image below shows the Gartner Group’s assessment of where a number of leading technologies are on the “hype cycle.” This analysis can help us in higher ed to understand […]

Introducing a Remedial Program that Actually Works Remediation is the no man’s land of American education. Every year we send hundreds of thousands of young men and women over the […]

FAQ on the BCC Summer Institute, May 20-21 Q. Is it all about technology? A. It’s all about learning outside the classroom: first day focus is service learning, field trips, study abroad, […]

It’s a “definitive agreement” – that changes the playing field! http://www.blackboard.com/Company/Media-Center/Press-Releases.aspx?releaseid=1285265

Click on the link below for information on the first New England Regional Sloan-C conference, to be held in Portland, ME on October 30, 2009. http://www.learn.maine.edu/sloan/

Math instructor Ed Crosson will be piloting a downloadable, modular statistics textbook from the Connexions website. The Connexions project is from Rice University and funded by the Hewlett foundation. All materials […]

Some question whether the infusion of multimedia into the classroom actually promotes active and critical thinking. In other words, the question is whether video, audio, and graphic elements create more […]

If you have a few minutes, this is a very interesting post to read from the Academic Commons. In it, the author — Professor Luke Fernandez of Weber State College […]