- Nov 2018
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www.timeshighereducation.com www.timeshighereducation.com
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Digital equity – ensuring equal access to technology – is a “rampant social justice issue”, affecting developed and developing countries alike, but is also a major concern for higher education, according to the report. Technology plays an “important role in advancing the availability of higher education for underrepresented student populations”, while ensuring “accessibility of web materials for disabled students”, it says. The use of open educational resources also provides “cost savings to students”. With higher education tasked with leveraging technology-enhanced education to “better meet the needs of under-served students”, certain universities are highlighted as exemplars of increasing equity. This year, the University of Oxford is branching into free online courses through the edX platform founded by Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The University of Cambridge is improvi
This article discusses challenges that higher education face with integrating technology into their classrooms. One of those challenges is digital equity which mentions a few ideas such as meeting the needs of under-served students, which could include ESL or International students.
This article doesn't specifically discuss ESL students , but it does bring up a lot of topics revolved around them. It could be helpful. This article is academic but seems credible. Rating: 7/10
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eds.b.ebscohost.com.ezproxy2.library.arizona.edu eds.b.ebscohost.com.ezproxy2.library.arizona.edu
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Source: Proceedings of the ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition Date: January 1, 2014
This article is a study of whether college students prefer electronic or printed textbooks. While the results are that more students prefer printed textbooks, this article was published in 2014 and mentioned that this mindset was changing rapidly.
This is an academic article, and I think this research could be relevant to some of my classmates. It is relevant for me as my program is considering having students purchase tablets and then using electronic textbooks that we have developed in-house using adapted OER sources. Rating 7/10
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teachonline.ca teachonline.ca
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More than 60 examples of applications of these developments in innovations in colleges and universities in Ontario, across Canada, and internationally, selected from Contact North | Contact Nord's Pockets of Innovations Series on teachonline.ca; and
This article highlights new developments in online learning and how it is pushing new pedagogy. I highlighted this portion because this article contains many examples of how universities are integrating the use of technology in innovative ways. This could be very useful for getting some new ideas.
This article isn't a research study and doesn't have an author posted, so it isn't as academic or credible as I'd like, but it acts as a good resource with many links to .edu websites with some good examples of technology integration in universities around the world. Rating 8/10
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