The findings show that, in addition to the possible psychological effects on members of the academic staff, distance education also adversely affects the health aspect of their vocal cords. A new study found that the synchronous online instruction forced on academics in Israel negatively affects their degree of stress, and is also reflected in their …
The digital labor of digital learning
One of the great deceptions of the ‘digital age’ is the idea that digital technologies tend to lessen the need for hard work and generally improve people’s working lives. Technology marketing will often promote the sense that new and exciting things simply get ‘done’ through digital technologies without the need for work at all. At best, most people …
The Intelligent Classroom : Beyond Four Walls
It has become standard practice to use the traditional information technologies such as web and email in education. But as the University campus becomes increasingly deployed with interconnected computing technology, we begin to ask how the resulting “iCampus” resource can be used in new and novel ways. This paper builds upon our previous work in …