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• 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.

  
  

• 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.

  
  

• Helping learners as they construct knowledge: How can instructors leverage research findings

  By Viswa K. Viswanathan

  

  Improving the recall of factual subject matter using existing features in LMS tools, apps, and other methods to meet targeted learning goals.

  
  

• Monetization of Knowledge in China: A new way for online learning?

  By Xi Lin, Christy M. Rhodes

  

  Monetization of knowledge has emerged as a popular online learning approach that plays a role in satisfying the needs of lifelong learners.

  
  

• Designing an Immersive Environment from the User's Perspective

  By Michael A. Dzbenski

  

  Casey Fictum's "VR UX" is a concise guide for readers looking to create VR environments centered around the consumers who use the technology.

  
  

• An Interview with Peter Smith on His New Book

  By Amy Hilbelink

  

  Free-range learning may be the way of the future. Smith discusses how higher ed can meet expectations of non-traditional adult learners.

  
  

• Digital Transformation in Higher Education—Buzzword or Opportunity?

  By Cerstin Mahlow, Andreas Hediger

  

  Higher ed institutions should model the complex networks of digital skills as a foundation for creating contextualized learning scenarios.

  
  

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Year in Review: eLearn Magazine 2018-2019

By Simone C. O. Conceicao, Anita Samuel

eLearn Magazine had a successful year with an increase in the number of published articles, establishment of a new online system for managing the submission and peer review process, publication of two special issues, and a new partnership.

Augmented, Virtual, and Mixed: How the realities are impacting our L&D reality

By Ann Rollins, Tom Pizer

The realities of learning are upon us. As learning practitioners, it is tough to keep on top of the emerging technology landscape. In this article, we define augmented, virtual, and mixed reality and provide use cases and context as to how each fits in the learning landscape based on our experience. We also share design considerations and a starting guide for practitioners as they begin to bring the realities into their learning ecosystems.