Research Today: Free e-Textbooks
December 19, 2013 E-Texts adoption seems to still be growing, bu at a slower pace than we all expected. Need a Stats book free? OpenStax Releases 6th Free Textbook By David Nagel 12/16/13 OpenStax...
View ArticleResearch Today: Booklessness is bad?
January 9,2014 OK, so what if all the students adopted e-Textbooks and did all their research online? Today’s Chronicle looks at the possibility. THE HARM OF BOOKLESSNESS January 6, 2014, 3:41 pm By...
View ArticleResearch Today: Pew updates e-Reader device ownership stats
January 16, 2014 Slowly, e-readership is growing, as noted in this latest Pew Internet survey reports. E-Reading Rises as Device Ownership Jumps The proportion of Americans who read e-books is...
View ArticleA Look Back: Penn State’s ‘First Five’ MOOCs
One of the most exciting aspects of the MOOC experiment is the ability to explore learning at scale. Through our partnership with Coursera, we receive a great deal of data about how students navigate...
View ArticleResearch Today: Just in from Pew Internet – Killer Apps
October 9, 2014 You think I need to upgrade my iPhone5? Killer Apps in the Gigabit Age By Lee Rainie, Janna Anderson and Jennifer Connolly Summary The age of gigabit connectivity is dawning and will...
View ArticleEstablishing a MOOC Research Cluster
One aspect of TLT that we are working to strengthen is research around learning technologies. Throughout the last year, we collaborated with several PSU researchers on journal articles, conference...
View ArticleMOOC Moments: Changing Paradigms
In EDUCAUSE Review yesterday Beyond the MOOC Model: Changing Educational Paradigms by James G. Mazoue Published on Monday, November 10, 2014 Four trends – MOOC-based degrees, competency-based...
View ArticleResearch Today: Pew Internet Project
Just what impact does the Internet have on average Americans? Can we really make better decisions with more information? Read the latest from the Pew Internet research team. December 8, 2014 Americans...
View ArticleResearch Today: Improving Math Scores
Pew Research just published the results of a recent study.We’re making progress, but slowly. February 2, 2015 U.S. students improving – slowly – in math and science, but still lagging internationally...
View ArticleSchuylkill students perceive increased engagement with collaborative iPad use
Students in Stone’s class collaborate on programming challenges using iPads and Apple TVs. One Penn State Schuylkill instructor, Jeff Stone, recently wrote a research study that found that students...
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