LIB 4900 – Social Informatics – Fall 2015

MLA: Millichap, Nancy. “Integrated Planning and Advising for Student Success: Focus on the Transformation of Advising.” EDUCAUSE. 30 Oct. 2015. Web. 12 Nov. 2015.

This article is relevant to my research topic because it discuss about how student may struggle when registering class and the ways to solve this problem. The author mentioned the tool called, “iPass” that some college used to help college student to register.

MLA Citation:

Bichsel, Jacqueline. “The State of E-Learning in Higher Education: An Eye Towards Growth and Increased Access.” Educause. Educause. Web. 12 Nov 2015.

How it is related to topic:

This is related to our topic directly because it studies how e-learning technologies in its totality. This source detailed everything including the uses of e-learning technologies in higher education, the economic stats to ways in which e-learning technologies can reach a broader range of students to increase growth. There was a very neat statistic that displayed the most important factors in e-learning technologies from the students’ perspective and one of the most important factors included overall effectiveness, ease of use for students and also accessibility. There was also a section that explored the perceived concerns about e-learning technologies which relates to our topic and can also be very helpful.

US Department of Education. “Total Amount of Student Aid Distributed in The United States, by Federal Grant Program from 2009 to 2015 (in 2014 Million U.S. Dollars).” Statista – The Statistics Portal. Statista. 13 Nov 2015. <http://www.statista.com/statistics/235630/student-aid-distributed-in-the-us-by-program/>

We found the above table on Statista. Statista compiled its information of from U.S. Department of Education. The table breaks it down year, between 2009 and 2015 and type of federal grant awarded, from Pell grants to SMART grants, etc.

Online Computer Library Center. “Benefits of Online Learning According to U.S. Users in as of January 2014.” Statista – The Statistics Portal. Statista. 13 Nov 2015. <http://www.statista.com/statistics/334291/benefits-of-online-learning-usa/>

Why it’s applicable?: Looks at the statistics for what is the most common listed benefits to online learning for the year 2014. Responses were from an open ended question to be fair: “Thinking about your overall online learning experiences, what would you say has been the most beneficial aspect of those experiences?”

Online Computer Library Center. “Challenges Encountered by Online Learners in The United States in 2014.” Statista – The Statistics Portal. Statista. 13 Nov 2015. <http://www.statista.com/statistics/334356/challenges-encountered-by-online-learners-usa/>

Why? Looks at the top problems/challenges for online learners for the year 2014. Very useful to our subject as we’re trying to find out why students disregard blackboard and its tools. Looking at the challenges we can see the correlation with the issues and the use of Blackboard.

Parker, Kim et. al. “The Digital Revolution and Higher Education”

Pew Research Center, Pew Research Center Web 12 Nov 2015

Why?: It relates to the topic of the prevalence of online courses, online students, future of online learning and  digital text books.

COMPUTER-APPLICATIONS IN EDUCATION – A HISTORICAL OVERVIEW

D. Midian Kurland and Laura C. Kurland

MLA Citation of the article:

• The article is about how computers have changed our lives but more importantly, changed the way that we learn
• Studies how computers are being used with increased frequency and success in schools at all grade levels and in all subject areas
• Relates to our topic because it gives an overview of the history of computers in education and also gives an overview of how they are increasingly being used
• Section devoted to the administrative use which was an interesting area we are looking about researching

Do students prefer e-learning on a mobile application or desktop view?

Why do students prefer desktops over mobile when participating in E-learning online systems?

Research quetsion pertainig to Blackboard / Course management system

• Why Blackboard features are not fully utilized by professors / students to establish a content rich learning environment.

Levy, Y. (2007). Comparing Dropouts and Persistence in E-learning. Computers & Education, 48(2), 185-204

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