New Media in Higher Education

New Media in Art Education

The goal of this paper is to present new media in the specialized visual art classroom (art education classroom). Flexibility, speed, availability, changeability of digital data is what makes new media necessary in the specialized visual art classroom. The media, considering the specific nature of the subject called visual art, can be divided in two types: learning media and articulation (creat...

Social Media Analysis for Higher Education

The educational system involves a complex set of actors, including learners, parents, teachers, and administrators. However, we now have more data than ever to analyze this system, which could result in a quick understanding and evaluation of public policies in this complex policy area. This paper explores a new area of data about the educational experience, namely social media data. This paper...

Accreditation in Higher Education and Medical Education

Educational quality improvement and related standards have been considered widely by all of the countries specially those who are pioneer in this field and in last fifty years. Finding objective criteria to rank universities and supporting them financially is The main Reason of this consideration. To assure the quality of higher education, the accreditation has acted as an accepted approach a...

New Directions for Higher Education

New Media and Future Education

New media industry, and in particular those involved with films, games, simulation, visualization and virtual reality, continue to demand more complex and realistic computer generated images. The advent of modern high performance graphics cards means that the computing performance to render the required images in cinematic quality is now available for $200 whereas only five years ago such image...