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Open access reaches tipping point in sciences – Study 25 Aug 2013 | 03:23 am
More academic papers are now available for free than in paid-for peer-reviewed journals in many scientific fields, according to a study released last Wednesday by the European Commission’s directorate...
Has President Obama caught MOOC fever? 25 Aug 2013 | 03:19 am
President Obama, in outlining his new education plan this week, didn’t utter the phrase “massive open online courses” or its handy acronym, but one could think otherwise, looking at the news articles,...
Obama Plan to Tie Student Aid to College Ratings Draws Mixed Reviews 25 Aug 2013 | 03:11 am
President Obama continues his three-campus “college cost” bus tour on Friday, promoting his plans to make college more affordable through a mix of carrots and sticks. The Chronicle of Higher Educatio...
President Obama Explains His Plan to Combat Rising College Costs 25 Aug 2013 | 03:09 am
Today [August 23, 2013], President Obama traveled to the University at Buffalo, the State University of New York to announce his plan to combat the soaring costs of higher education. The speech, the f...
Teaching Web Evaluation: A Cognitive Development Approach 25 Aug 2013 | 02:38 am
Web evaluation has been a standard information literacy offering for years and has always been a challenging topic for instruction librarians. Over time, the authors had tried a myriad of strategies t...
Keeping Pace with Information Literacy Instruction for the Real World: When Will MLS Programs Wake Up and Smell the LILACs? 25 Aug 2013 | 02:10 am
For over thirty years, numerous studies have discussed the contradiction between the growing importance of information literacy instruction to the Library’s core mission and lack of pedagogical traini...
Deciding what kind of course to take: Factors that influence modality selection in accounting continuing professional development 23 Aug 2013 | 06:37 am
This study used a cross sectional sample created by self-selection from a researchers’ email invitation to accountants in Canada to determine which modalities accountants preferred when selecting Cont...
Learning object repositories as knowledge management systems 23 Aug 2013 | 06:27 am
Over the past years, a number of international initiatives that recognize the importance of sharing and reusing digital educational resources among educational communities through the use of Learning ...
Differential influences of achievement approach goals and intrinsic/extrinsic motivation on help-seeking in e-learning 23 Aug 2013 | 06:15 am
Considering the importance yet paucity of help-seeking in e-learning, the present study investigated the motivational antecedents of help-seeking among online college students. We explored and compare...
A Comparison of Instructor Evaluations for Online Courses 23 Aug 2013 | 06:03 am
Online learning is growing at a rapid rate across the United States (Durrington, Berryhill & Swafford, 2006; Tabatabaei, Schrottner, & Reichgelt, 2006). However, course evaluation systems have not kep...
