Editor's Choice Articles

Mar 31 2022

State-by-state legislation following the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is creating an impossible compliance environment for online education.

Increased demand for online learning options coupled with the pace of the evolution of technology and pedagogy has necessitated growth in the quality and quantity of facilitation training for online faculty to support effective educational ...

Can social network analysis (SNA) combined with natural language processing (NLP) provide greater insights into complex online discussions? Using this combined approach, these researchers worked to better understand the complex roles and ...

We outline a model for innovative online practice called the open hub model of knowledge generation in higher-education environments. Following from models such as communities of inquiry, communities of practice, and learning in the collective, we ...

Internet users have many tools and options to fulfill their online information needs, for purposes such as routine decision-making and online learning. One such option is "learning from the crowd", in a crowdsourced environment through the ...

Faced with a growing young population and having limited capacity in its conventional universities, Pakistan had to think of outside-of-the-box solutions. A compounding factor was the acute shortage of qualified faculty. A virtual university was ...

Blockchain is a relatively new technology that holds the promise to reimagine the future of higher education. The first commercial use of blockchain was born in the financial industry with the inception of Bitcoin, opening many new ways to conduct ...

This paper examines the use of digital video in order to enhance professional development for online and blended learning programs in higher education, with particular reference to initial teacher education (ITE). While digital observation in the ...

Increasingly, many STEM schools are interested in offering their educational programs online. They struggle with several difficulties associated with online education: the structure of programs and individual courses, communication among students ...

Research widely agrees that student engagement can have positive impacts on student learning and achievement. Many institutions have adopted best practices designed to enhance engagement in the classroom in response to the growing research that ...

With pleasure I present this special issue "Online Engineering Education" for the International Journal on Innovations in Online Education. My sincere thanks go to all the contributors, reviewers, chief editors, and the publisher.

Fifty-five educators from around the country convened on the Georgia Tech campus in November 2018 to discuss the concept of scalable advanced learning ecosystems (SALEs) (Kadel, R.S., Finding the Right Wavelength: Scalable Advanced Learning ...

Pushing the Limits is an NSF-funded project designed to bring accessible STEM-based programming to adult audiences in rural communities as well as enhance the self-efficacy of the resident librarians as informal science learning (ISL) ...

Libraries are increasingly offering activities and programs that engage youth in science, technology, engineering, and math–rich "Making". However, many librarians do not have access to necessary training, resources, or relevant content knowledge ...

Postsecondary education is now largely a requirement for entry into the middle class, but costs are causing traditional college and university programs to be increasingly out of reach for many. The Georgia Institute of Technology has had success ...

Editor's Note by Cammarata and Larson, titled "Project-Based Methods for Assessment of Active Learning STEM Video Lessons" in this issue.

A comprehensive STEM education for students is meant to develop critical thinking, problem-solving, creativity, collaboration, and self-directed learning. These are the main objectives of the BLOSSOMS Initiative (Blended Open-Source Science Or Math ...

This is an Editor's Note on the implications of the European Union's GDPR regulation on online education

This study examined the experiences and perceptions of a group of sixteen faculty members who participated in a comprehensive faculty development process for online teaching and learning developed using a cognitive apprenticeship theoretical ...

For an online program to say that "our quality is as good as on campus" is not very useful if potential students have never heard of the campus. It seem likely, however, that online degree programs could develop distinguishing features that are both ...

This article addresses the question of why a new journal about innovations in online education has been started.