Supporting higher education students through analytics systems

Supporting collaborative learning in online higher education through activity awareness

Improving activity awareness, the ability to know what is going on around you in ways that are meaningful to your learning objectives and activities, in online learning has the potential to enhance the effectiveness of online learning for students and instructors. This paper introduces readers to the Context-aware Activity Notification System being developed for use within course management sys...

Supporting Higher Education through Electronic Meeting Support in Tanzania

To learn, a person has to be able to communicate effectively with others about the knowledge to be learned. Communication processes in class rooms can be supported by Group Support Systems (GSS), that enable students to communicate anonymously and in parallel. GSS experiences suggest that the technology increases observed learning, self-reported learning, on-task participation, and satisfaction...

Supporting Higher Education—Hospital Transition through Blended Learning

Blended learning is a pedagogical approach which is designed to enhance complementarity between face-to-face and online learning (Dziuban et al., 2004). According to Qian et al.’s (Qian et al., 2016, p. 8) systematic review and meta-analysis “Blended learning appears to have a consistent positive effect in comparison with no intervention and appears to be more effective than or at least as effe...

Digital Capabilities in Higher Education, 2015: Analytics

Assessing Higher Education Students’ Ethicality

In higher educational institutions, ethics is the very core of the people that institutions are trying to morally shape. In a few years’ time, these students will be assigned to some work place where they will be forced to make decisions which can affect businesses and more importantly – human lives. In that respect, what seems like a simple doubt about right or wrong, becomes alarmingly signif...