RECENT ARTICLES

• Overnight Transformation To Online Education Due to the COVID-19 Pandemic: Lessons learned

  By Sudhaman Parthasarathy, San Murugesan

  

  The pandemic has been a significant challenge to educational institutions and imposed severe restrictions on traditional modes of learning.

  
  

• How a Vocational Center Changed its Way to Train Adults: A Case Study on Computer-Based Learning and Vocational Training

  By Yves Messier

  

  How EFFA worked to understand if their way of teaching, goals, and services aligned with society and the labor market.

  
  

• Three Things to Consider Before You Kick Off Synchronous Office Hours in Online Classes

  By Nathan Pritts

  

  Running online office hours in a predominantly asynchronous classroom environment presents challenges to the learner and the instructor.

  
  

• Facing Global Health Crises Using Mobile Communications: An international virtual exchange experience

  By Rosalie Barreto Belian, Lucas Sampaio Leite, José Luiz Lima-Filho, Laura Geer

  

  The story of a shared module with curricula addressing mobile communications to face health crises

  
  

• Designing Successful ePortfolio Practices

  By Anita Samuel

  

  Eynon and Gambino have provided, in this book, a road map for the implementation of ePortfolios at the programmatic and institutional levels.

  
  

• Internationalizing Teacher Education through Virtual Connections and Blended Learning

  By Mary E. Risner, Swapna Kumar

  

  Using blended learning and virtual connections to infuse global perspectives in U.S. curriculum

  
  

• Creating an Active Learning Environment using Reproducible Data Science Tools

  By Randal Burns

  

  After a decade of struggle to help students install and launch machine virtual machines in the cloud, a professor moves his course to Gigantum.

  
  

• Interview with Dr. Janet Zadina: Applying educational neuroscience research to instruction and elearning

  By Les Howles

  

  How instructors can design more learner-centered course experiences and use online technologies more effectively based on neuroscience research.

  
  

• Helping Students with Learning Disabilities Through Video-Based, Universally Designed Assessment

  By Janet Zydney, Casey Hord, Kathy Koenig

  

  Many assessments impose barriers for students with learning disabilities, alternative measures must be developed.

  
  

• What about online doctoral students? A review of e-Learning literature

  By Kristina McGaha, Diana Hart, Wendy Aoki

  

  A review of contemporary research is needed to understand current trends in e-learning as well as determine where further research is needed.

  
  

RECENT OPINIONS

A Challenging Reality: Transitioning from the classroom to e-learning among English language learners

By Joel Floyd

In the wake of COVID-19, both K-12 and post-secondary institutions have had to transition from traditional learning in the classroom to teaching and learning through various online and or e-learning platforms. With such an abrupt transition, it's important for educators to explore the effectiveness of e-learning among their student populations. Moreover, this narrative discussion is facilitated by a program director who oversees an adult education English as a second language program located in Atlanta, Georgia. The director maintains the opinion that various modes of online learning are not the best learning method for all student populations and specifically adult English language learners.

What Facebook Taught Me About Research

By Lee Heller

Distance education has exploded, in recent years, with more students taking online courses than ever before. However, despite the explosion in online course takers, the number of students who are not completing their online degree programs is also growing. Online students report feeling isolation, and a disconnect with their classmates and educational institution. Another phenomenon, social media, has also experienced explosive growth, including the largest in modern society, Facebook. The goal of my research study was to understand if there could be a connection between the use of social media, specifically Facebook and Facebook Messenger, and the isolation that distance students experience.