How is higher education preparing students for the fundamental changes in the job market? The report “Future Skills-The Future of Learning and Higher education” was published in March 2019 and investigates this question based on an international Delphi … Read more
School in summer time, no class? Not true! Attending an international summer school is a great opportunity for PhD students to grow their network and get up to speed with the latest research methods, trends and outcomes in … Read more
Introduction I’m the instructional designer, trainer, and learning management system support at Spring Hill College (SHC) in Mobile, AL. I completed my doctorate in instructional design in 2017 from the University of South Alabama. I was interested in … Read more
Community of Inquiry A community of inquiry (COI) is what it sounds like—people gather to learn from each other. I argue that a COI can be preplanned to engender a robust learning environment. What that entails is under … Read more
Each AACE conference awards best papers to honor submissions that offer a significant contribution to the field of educational media, learning and technology. Award paper publications are typically available as open access through LearnTechLib. These conference highlights comprise some … Read more
The visual literacies (ViLi) research project (https://viliproject.eu/) is funded by the European Union (Erasmus+) to specifically research visual literacies from a technology enhanced learning perspective. The project team, comprising of Julie Ann Sime and Chryssa Themelis from Lancaster University … Read more
Whether you are packing your bags to attend an edtech conference and looking forward to all the interesting meetings, talks and ideas the event will spark, or you are on your return journey and contemplating how to share … Read more
Open Education Studies is a new open access journal by De Gruyter, with Theo Bastiaens as the editor in chief. The 2019 topical issue is focused on ‘Design Thinking for Education’. Design thinking is a problem solving method … Read more
Figure 1. A Hoaxy® diffusion network regarding claims about the HPV vaccine. Falsehoods are spread due to biases in the brain, society, and computer algorithms (Ciampaglia & Menczer, 2018). A combined problem is “information overload and limited attention … Read more
Whether you write conference paper or prepare your manuscript for a journal submission, a well presented review of the literature together with correct citations and references significantly increase your chances to be accepted. Furthermore, it will make it … Read more