information analyst

"In early 2024, the Senate garnered enough support to potentially pass the Kids Online Safety Act—a major privacy law focused on content moderation for minors. Though the bill does not seem to cover higher education institutions, the EDUCAUSE Policy team will be asking for clarification about whether certain scenarios would create compliance concerns for colleges and universities."

"Educator expertise is too often underutilized in the development of edtech products."

A look at how introducing new technology can exacerbate the digital divide.

Higher-ed leaders offer a look at how their institutions are managing their digital transformation and moving into the future

The web is an informational paradise and a hellscape at the same time.

A boundless wealth of high-quality information is available at our fingertips right next to a ceaseless torrent of low-quality, distracting, false and manipulative information.

This is a brief story about a journey of the problem-solving process for my job application improvement.

Students who can critique ideas and generate sound, reasoned arguments in real time will be better prepared to find success after they graduate, says Rebekah Wanic

Academics who tweet are weighing the opportunity costs of leaving Twitter while looking into other social media platforms. But few are fleeing the digital gathering space in which they have invested so much—at least not yet.

Engagement with the content is the key to any successful content, be it learning content or marketing content. The immense popularity of social video sharing platforms proves the immense potential of short and crisp content.

Here's what to look forward to - and to fear - in the next evolution of the internet.

Even though they are taking more courses, college students are spending less on course materials.

The average college student spent $339 on course materials in the 2021-2022 academic year, or about $38 per course, according to an annual student spending survey from the National Association of College Stores, a foundation that collects information about retail in higher ed.

Girl and boy scouts are motivated by badges, why not school students? 

So what is a digital badge, and how can it be used to motivate a student and engage them in learning experiences? Also, what are the simple steps required to create digital badges, and how do you connect these to learning activities?

In this short video, Drs Rene & Maria Elena Corbeil share their thoughts on some of the theories underpinning microlearning, including this great one from Grovo (2022):

'The secret to microlearning is not making things short. It's making short things matter'.

#microlearning #themicrolearningmeetup

In this post, I provide a research-based answer to the question: what Is universal design for learning ?

Hybrid assessment efforts are needed to help institutions identify—and act on—different outcomes for online versus residential students

New research shows that taking notes helps you to remember more from lecture than photographing slides.

Faculty members and administrators are struggling to stay ahead of disruptive AI progress, a new report suggests.

Artificial intelligence's potential in the public sector has grown exponentially, as have questions around appropriate guardrails. We interviewed the ChatGPT chatbot from OpenAI to see what it had to say.

Despite unconnected households being eligible for free internet, there are complex barriers that prevent enrollment

Higher-ed leaders offer a look at how their institutions are managing their digital transformation and moving into the future

As a new era of the internet approaches, we risk carrying over today's unresolved problems too.

When a certain self-proclaimed Metaverse champion (Hello, Mr. Zuckerberg) announced his futuristic vision, he rushed straight to the finish line, desperate to describe his fanciful visions of how the…

Longtime professor Cathy Davidson is on a mission to promote the practice of active learning. And she says the stakes for improving classroom teaching are higher than many people realize. It’s not just about test scores and whether people learn, she argues, but there’s an ethical issue that sometimes gets lost in discussions about teaching.

We know everyone is busy. Everyone already has too much on their plate and is trying to learn as much as they can every day.

But here, in a nutshell, is what you can teach yourself, your co-workers, your friends, and your family to help them to better recognize and beat social engineering and phishing.