Information and digital literacy in education via the digital path

eLearning is a great way to provide a wide range of content that people can conveniently access online whenever they have free time to do so. Unlike face-to-face courses, eLearning requires special attention when it comes to designing courses that effectively keep participants engaged. If your program doesn’t give them what they need or is …

ORLANDO -- "A Universe of Opportunities" -- the tagline for the Sloan Consortium's International Conference on Online Learning -- is also an apt description of the glut of different faculty development models presented here so far.

Over the course of three days, attendees at the Sloan-C conference face a series of dilemmas when deciding which of the almost 500 sessions -- most of which run concurrently -- to attend. In addition to sessions belonging to the broadly defined technology and emerging learning environments track, instructional designers and other conference-goers have flocked to the more than 100 sessions on how to prepare faculty members to teach online.

Why? “We’re all struggling with the same challenges,” said Lujean Baab, senior director for networked learning design and strategies at Virginia Tech.

The education sector is rapidly changing and adapting to new technologies. Modern days have made educators go above and beyond with their teaching skills and learn to use new tools to innovate their style and create a better learning environment for students. Starting with correspondence courses and ending up with the apparition of MOOCs, education …

Digital literacy in higher education is more than learning how to Google a bit better. David White explores some new thinking around online engagement