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JUNE 27, 2016 Free Newsletter Subscriber Become a Pro Supporter! In order to keep delivering highly curated content directly to your inbox, we need your help! Pro Supporters get A WEEKLY curated email (sent every Monday morning), includes: Featured Article of the Week, Research Based Articles of the Week, and our famous “In The News” section Monthly abstracts summarizing relevant industry research Access to private email address to request special coverage & research topics Include your company logo on the Distance-Educator.com homepage Supporting a small, tight-knight industry team of researchers and techies Support & Subscribe FEATURED ARTICLE OF THE WEEK E-learning is missing link in internationalisation Higher education institutions worldwide are subject to pressures that have grown in number and complexity. They recognise that the quality of their activities – research, teaching and learning and societal engagement – is integrally dependent upon sound internationalisation and digitalisation strategies (among other factors). University World News Keep Reading Share this article: RESEARCH-BASED ARTICLES OF THE WEEK Blending Formal and Informal Learning Networks for Online Learning With the emergence of social software and the advance of web-based technologies, online learning networks provide invaluable opportunities for learning, whether formal or informal. Unlike top-down, instructor-centered, and carefully planned formal learning settings, informal learning networks offer more bottom-up, student-centered participatory but somewhat disorganized learning opportunities for students. This paper presents a research study where […] Keep Reading Share this article: Identifying Tensions in the Use of Open Licenses in OER Repositories We present an analysis of 50 repositories for educational content conducted through an “audit system” that helped us classify these repositories, their software systems, promoters, and how they communicated their licensing practices. We randomly accessed five resources from each repository to investigate the alignment of licensing information between the resources themselves, metadata pages and overall […] Keep Reading Share this article: Winning One Program at a Time: A Systemic Approach Many Universities are missing an opportunity to focus student recruitment marketing efforts and budget at the program level, which can offer lower priced advertising opportunities with higher conversion rates than traditional University level marketing initiatives. At NC State University, we have begun to deploy a scalable, low-cost, program level marketing system across 18 online and […] Keep Reading Share this article: Faculty Professional Development and Student Satisfaction in Online Higher Education With the ever-increasing availability of online education opportunities, understanding the factors that influence online student satisfaction and success is vital to enable administrators to engage and retain this important stakeholder group. The purpose of this ex-post-facto, nonexperimental quantitative study was to investigate the impact of faculty professional development, faculty degree status, and faculty longevity upon […] Keep Reading Share this article: IN THE NEWS Students say campus technology needs major overhaul–but why? One-third of students feel student administration systems do not meet their expectations, making them less likely to recommend the institution. Unit4, an enterprise applications for service organizations company revealed this result as part of a multi-national research study on students’ perceptions of their campus technology. The survey also found that 7 in 10 students would […] Keep Reading Share this article: Next-Level Benchmarking: How Do You Measure Up? Learn how the EDUCAUSE Benchmarking Service takes the use of analytics to the next level by helping CIOs and other campus leaders measure progress on campus-wide strategic initiatives. EDUCAUSE Keep Reading Share this article: The HathiTrust Research Center: Exploring the Full-Text Frontier Many readers of EDUCAUSE Review are familiar with the HathiTrust Digital Library (HTDL), which was featured in an E-Content column by Jeremy York and Brian E.C. Schottlaender a couple years ago.1 However, readers may not yet be aware of the research counterpart to this mass-scale digital library: the HathiTrust Research Center (HTRC).2 In this column, […] Keep Reading Share this article: Learning to Adapt Major study of adaptive learning finds inconclusive results about its ability to improve outcomes and lower costs, but use at two-year colleges and in remedial courses shows potential. Inside Higher Ed Keep Reading Share this article: Benefits of a Pro Supporter 2x More Newsletters Monthly Abstracts Archived Content Support & Subscribe

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