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The NMC Horizon Report: 2014 K-12 Edition
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Johnson, L.; Adams Becker, S.; Estrada, V.; Freeman, A. – New Media Consortium, 2014
"The NMC Horizon Report" series is the most visible outcome of the New Media Consortium (NMC) Horizon Project, an ongoing research effort established in 2002 that identifies and describes emerging technologies likely to have a large impact on teaching, learning, research, or creative expression within every sector of education in some 65…
Descriptors: Technology Uses in Education, Educational Technology, Elementary Secondary Education, Technological Advancement
Supporting Online Faculty--Revisiting the Seven Principles (A Few Years Later)
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Puzziferro, Maria; Shelton, Kaye – Online Journal of Distance Learning Administration, 2009
Since 2005, the landscape of online teaching and learning has changed as well as the landscape of the academy, and continues to transform before our eyes. These changes are not only a product of technological innovation, but also a result of new and reconceptualized "values" of higher education, and so we must reexamine what changes to…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Values, Quality Control, Competition
E-Learning for SMEs: Competition and Dimensions of Perceived Value
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Roffe, Ian – Journal of European Industrial Training, 2004
E-learning is such an attractive opportunity for training providers to reconfigure delivery and support that it presents compelling reasons to engage with the practice. A broad range of provision is therefore available for every type of market segment, including small firms. Sustaining a competitive advantage from a host of offers is a practical…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Small Businesses, Competition, Value Judgment
The Future of Higher Education: How Technology Will Shape Learning
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Glenn, Marie; D'Agostino, Debra, Ed. – New Media Consortium, 2008
On October 20, 2008, the New Media Consortium announced the release of a white paper produced in conjunction with the Economist Magazine and in collaboration with Apple, Inc. This paper reports the results of a study of nearly 300 CIOs and technology leaders inside and outside of education to gain deeper insight into the wider impact of technology…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Consortia, Foreign Countries, Computer Uses in Education
Virtual Education and the Race to the Bottom
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Versluis, Arthur – Academic Questions, 2004
The president of a vastly profitable virtual education corporation asserted that customers flock to him, not for an education, but for the material comforts that an education provides. Compelled by technology and supported by the World Trade Organization, such huge credentialing agencies employ lowpaid contractors to dish out homogenized info…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Computer Uses in Education, Public Education, Educational Technology
Online Education in the USA
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Lancaster, S.; Yen, D. C.; Wang, J-C. – Industry and Higher Education, 2003
Online education has become a highly debated topic. While some educators see it as a commercialized and prepackaged form of education, one that limits the verbal skills of students, others see it as breaking down the geographical and financial barriers that many students face. Online delivery has changed education in a number of ways, increasing…
Descriptors: Virtual Universities, Internet, Distance Education, Online Courses