Distance Learning, mLearning, Digital Education, Technology

The use of social media in online education presents a great opportunity for educators to connect with their students and recreate social connections.

"This report profiles key trends and emerging technologies and practices shaping the future of teaching and learning and envisions a number of scenarios and implications for that future. It is based on the perspectives and expertise of a global panel of leaders from across the higher education landscape."

Learn how this email-obsessed professor went unplugged during summer break. After only checking emails on Monday mornings, she's more refreshed than ever.

Steve Jobs began using this presentation formula long before it caught on.

The Gartner Group lists the top 10 strategic technologies for 2019. Great list, but a few technologies -- like immersive educational technology -- are missing.

"Chatbots aren't new. The first time I mentioned chatbots (or bot-based technology) on this blog was back in 2016 in a post titled “Messaging is the Past, Present, and Future.”

In order to leverage high-impact practices, faculty should first reflect on their strengths and align their teaching schedule to them.

These learners want connections so they feel less isolated and can push forward on their desire to change the world.

"Traditionally, teachers would be assigned a textbook and asked to use it. They were likely unaware of the many steps that the publisher of the text had taken to create, vet, edit, and review everything that went into that textbook. The book might not have been fascinating to students, but the information in it was based on research and reliable. In other words, content quality was largely outsourced, and teachers need not add it to the list of things that they needed to worry about. Edtech, however, does not usually have the same kind of review or research in place before teachers use it. And this leads to a problem with edtech: Can research keep up?"

Edtech organizations are figuring out how to move forward with the popular annual report after New Media Consortium dissolved.

"Hospitality and travel aren’t the only sectors seeing disruption from new trends and emerging technologies. Higher education has seen its fair share of disruption. In some cases, innovation is threatening the very model higher education is based on. Here are five trends set to disrupt higher education"

"We built the SOK (Small Online Kindness) generator to remind ourselves about all of the above, and in fact, to help ourselves to be better conveners, better minders of the attention of others, better partners, even better friends. Visit the generator to see some small kindnesses formatted as an old-school website experience..."

"It’s no secret that voice-enabled technology is taking off in the domestic sphere, but how is this increasingly robust technology impacting education? To find out, we talked to Marissa Mierow, who leads Alexa Education at Amazon, delivering innovative experiences for both students and developers focused on education technology."

Learn how a few strategic moves can help higher-ed IT teams make online courses more streamlined and enjoyable for students and educators.

A survey finds that the majority of participants struggle to identify fake news in a digital literacy quiz--here's how they stack up by age.

If you use technology productively, life can be a lot easier but if you want use technology productively, it's going to take discipline and self-management.

Last year about this time, this article from the New York Times showed up in my Twitter feed. I clicked on it because I was intrigued by the title (“Extensive Data Shows Punishing Reach of Racism for Black Boys”) but when I realized that the article was all moving data, I knew my students would…

We asked 20 edtech executives to look into their crystal balls and share their edtech predictions for 2019.

"Here are some of the top education technology trends that have been on our radar recently!"

"I vowed to myself to stop writing so many “WTF is up with this ed-tech?” posts because they’re all “WTF is up with this ed-tech?” but then I read about the plans of the well-heeled and powerful and alarm bells ring in my head and I can’t stop myself."

Some tech trends fizzle out and die a quiet death, while others are so significant that they transform our world and how we live in it. Here are the top nine tech mega-trends that I believe will define 2018 and beyond.

"Gifts are plentiful during the holidays. But Christmas came early for some higher-ed institutions in the form of freebies and discounts from big technology companies. Amazon gave Echo Dots. Apple also reached out with iPad Pros and other hardware at a discounted rate."

Digital transformation is on the horizon, along with equity and cultural issues, educators and experts tell EdScoop.