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August 17th, 2011 in Daily Research Update, Feature Content, Smartphones, Tablets, and Mobile

Mobile Statistics and Android Growth Point to a Mobile Landscape in Education

Much of the noise in mobile this week has been around Google’s acquisition of Motorola Mobile, but there is also a new report from the PEW Internet and American Life Project, and I’d like to begin with that today. One of the numbers that should stick out for educators is that 83% of American adults now own a cell phone. That number is higher among the 18-25 age group. Here are some other interesting statistics Read Article

August 15th, 2011 in Big Data in Education, Daily Research Update, Feature Content

Big Data in Education — Examples of Information Analysis for Predicting Student Success

Just like the rest of the Web-based world, the amount of information in education — structured and unstructured — has blown up in the past decade. Learners are creating more information, and they are making learning connections in increasingly complex ways. Depending on how you look at it, this is either a pretty darn big nuisance or an opportunity for learning breakthrough. More information about learner activity could help us determine with much greater accuracy what works best in our curricula and pedagogy Read Article

August 10th, 2011 in Daily Research Update

Top LOL Twitterverse Cartoons : The Best of the Xplanation

I tweet and I bet you do as well and if you don’t – you’re one of the few. The Twitterverse is growing at a rapid pace according to reports. In 2010 the average number Read Article

August 10th, 2011 in Daily Research Update, Feature Content, Future of Textbooks

Opportunities and Challenges in the E-textbook Industry

I want to spend some time this morning talking about a few of the interesting challenges facing the textbook industry, but I should begin by pointing to the various opportunities that seem to be low-hanging Read Article

August 8th, 2011 in Big Data in Education, Daily Research Update, Feature Content

Big Data in Education — Important Questions Regarding Learning Analytics

Moving forward, we will need learning analytics designed for the world as it really exists, a world in which knowledge and information are expanding exponentially. This is a world in which the things we need to know and the mastery of those things is dynamic, open-ended, and does not easily align with our assessment-based model, which requires static and closed information sets Read Article

August 8th, 2011 in Daily Research Update

The Twitterverse: Weekly Theme

Twitter is a little over five years old and boasts about having over 175 million open user accounts. I am on Twitter like most of my friends and I use it daily. Yet the fact remains that Read Article

August 5th, 2011 in Daily Research Update, Feature Content

The Changing Landscape for E-textbooks and LMS Platforms in Higher Education

Today’s research update focuses on the continuing evolution of the e-textbook and LMS markets in the Read Article

August 1st, 2011 in Big Data in Education, Daily Research Update, Feature Content

Big Data and Education

Welcome to this week’s Biweekly Research Update. If you want more context for this research, take a look at our Education and Technology Trends for 2011. You may also be interested in our Weekly Research Read Article

July 27th, 2011 in Daily Research Update

Top Cartoons on the Cloud: Best of The Xplanation

The cloud has changed the way we view the world, write papers, do homework and even date.  Losing hard copies of photos doesn’t mean they’re lost forever anymore because you probably stored them on a Read Article

July 27th, 2011 in Daily Research Update, Feature Content, Future of Textbooks

Wither E-textbooks in Higher Education — Price and Availability

It’s that time of year when a majority of college students start ramping up for fall courses, and thus it’s also a good time to dedicate a few of our weekly research posts to the evolution of digital textbooks Read Article