Educación a Distancia y TIC

If our curriculum is thinking, if our job is (excuse the convenient phrasing) teaching thought, our goals as educators change.

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As modern advances in technology continue to strengthen, new techniques continue to open and provide new avenues for education. Learn how modern classrooms are changing the eLearning industry.

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In the ever-evolving landscape of online distance education, educators face a crucial challenge: captivating students and igniting their passion for learning within virtual environments. The key to unlocking this new era of educational success lies in the integration of active learning strategies. By immersing students in dynamic activities, stimulating discussions, and collaborative endeavors, educators can transcend the limitations of the digital realm and revolutionize online teaching.

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Universities may be contributing to faculty experiencing technology fatigue and burnout.

As the growing popularity of online and hybrid environments become more popular, and the often redundant number of digital tools increases, tech fatigue is on the rise. Faculty members are generally positive about using technology in their teaching. However, many are dissatisfied with how their institutions are implementing the technology. In addition, there are concerns about EdTech’s anticipated future impact on student instruction. These are the findings from a survey recently published by the College Innovation Network (CIN), a grant-funded initiative spearheaded by WGU Labs.     

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While eLearning provides a more in-depth and comprehensive learning experience, microlearning offers flexibility, targeted knowledge acquisition, and better engagement for learners with short attention spans. This blog compares the two and helps you understand when to choose what, and why.

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During the pandemic, educators and students alike had to find a way to transition to online methods

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In this part of our Instructional Design Theories and Models series, let's get acquainted with the distributed learning model and what it brings to your Instructional Design strategy.

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Personalized learning has been a buzzword in education since the turn of the century. But what does it really mean? This past fall, I met with several education leaders to discuss this very topic and codify what it looks like in the classroom.

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In many classrooms, students demonstrate an enviable tech savviness as they easily navigate new applications with grace and little fear. Need your computer hooked up to the projector? There is a good chance at least one student can do it for you. Need help getting the WiFi booster to work properly? Ask a student.

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Learning spaces and technology infrastructure have become increasingly important to the student experience. Higher education leaders have an obligation to reimagine hybrid learning in ways that can achieve accessible and equitable education for student success.

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This week, the National Skills Coalition released a report titled Closing the Digital Skill Divide: The Payoff for Workers, Business and the Economy in partnership with the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta. The report states that 92 percent of jobs now require definitely digital or likely digital skills.

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With Spotify and similar music streaming platforms, we can group our favorite songs into playlists, curating a custom soundtrack for our lives and changing it as often as we like.

There are clear signs that something similar is at work in higher education. We are seeing a larger trend in the modularization, or unbundling, of higher education. Within this model, students might choose to earn technical certifications, complete skills-based short courses such as coding bootcamps, or take massive open online courses instead of enrolling in traditional degree programs.

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Technology can be used in the learning process in a variety of ways.

Some are supplementary, serving the original design of the classroom and usually automate some previously by-human task or process–grading multiple choice assessments, searching for a source of information, or sharing messages and other data across large groups.

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Campus Technology sits down with David Weil, Vice President and Chief Information and Analytics Officer, Information Technology & Analytics, at Ithaca College, who will be delivering talks on both AI and data and analytics at the upcoming Tech Tactics in Education Conference, to be held Nov. 7–9 in Orlando, FL.

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In spite of efforts to suppress online student enrollments at community colleges, we must be reminded that ultimately students drive the mix of modalities that are offered. For instance, a collateral casualty of the historic growth of online enrollment has been the decline of evening classes/programs at most community colleges.

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Higher education institutions across the country are embracing new technologies to better equip their students with essential digital literacy skills. Potential employers expect graduates to have tech skills and higher education institutions often assume that students come into college already knowing the technology. The caveat is that even though today’s students are digital natives, this does not necessarily indicate that they are career tech ready. As today’s digital landscape continues to evolve, colleges and universities must rise to the challenge and accelerate their technology implementations to meet the current needs of students and faculty. 

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Universities may be contributing to faculty experiencing technology fatigue and burnout.

As the growing popularity of online and hybrid environments become more popular, and the often redundant number of digital tools increases, tech fatigue is on the rise. Faculty members are generally positive about using technology in their teaching. However, many are dissatisfied with how their institutions are implementing the technology. In addition, there are concerns about EdTech’s anticipated future impact on student instruction. These are the findings from a survey recently published by the College Innovation Network (CIN), a grant-funded initiative spearheaded by WGU Labs.     

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Is eLearning just digital learning? This is a big dilemma in the L&D industry. L&D professionals, Learning Leaders, and learners themselves often get puzzled in identifying what’s what. Keep reading as we bust common Digital Learning and eLearning myths in this blog post.

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The Digital Learning Strategy Guide can help institutions develop a robust, flexible, and personalized framework for a digital learning strategy infor

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Technology has gained a more important place in higher education, especially since the advent of the pandemic. However, thoughtful, meaningful use of the right technologies is critical to a student’s success.

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With considerable trepidation, I commonly write about the future of education–the future of the classroom, the future role of the teacher, the role of robots (and whether or not robots can replace teachers), and AI and new models accommodate these technologies, such as Combination Learning, Self-Directed learning, and the Sync Learning Model, among others.

What might the classroom look like in 2028? Having written that in 2014, who knows?

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As the demands and preferences of online college students grow, social media and marketing are significantly influencing their enrollment decisions.

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These best practices from the Learning Design and Technology program at the University of San Diego will help practitioners create the best possible learning experience for students and develop a rewarding career in instructional design.

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This article highlights the convenience and flexibility of learning on the go; find out all the advantages of mobile learning here.

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Educational technology should no more be optional in a society where online natives are now putting their kids to school. I’ve spent the last four years working as an instructional coach, teaching instructors how to incorporate technology into their lessons. During that period, I discovered that for teachers to properly embrace digitalization in the classrooms, they must be backed by a society that fully welcomes educational technology. Here’s how we do it

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