online learning – NIU College of Education

Tech leaders discuss cyber challenges, benefits at Community Learning Series

November 13, 2019 Mark McGowan enewsletter, ETRA

Panelists at the NIU College of Education’s Fall 2019 Community Learning Series on cybersecurity could not have been clearer. We are under constant attack, to the tune of 1,500 malicious acts every minute. The attackers are well-financed, heavily resourced and, unfortunately, always

U.S. News raises NIU College of Ed score in annual online grad program rankings

January 18, 2019 Mark McGowan CAHE, CI, enewsletter, ETRA, LEPF

The NIU College of Education remains in the country’s Top 10 among U.S. News & World Report’s annual rankings of online graduate programs. NIU ties for ninth with Pennsylvania State University-World Campus, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and the University of Virginia (Curry).

ETRA summer course enables students to explore, tap research power of UX lab

July 16, 2018 Mark McGowan enewsletter, ETRA

As word spread around the NIU campus about the new and rare User Experience Lab in the Department of Educational Technology, Research and Assessment, interest in its possibilities grew immediately. Brainwave monitors! Remote eye trackers! Mobile eye trackers! “Students were contacting me,”

User Experience Lab debuts

March 29, 2018 Mark McGowan enewsletter, ETRA

Students in the Department of Educational Technology, Research and Assessment (ETRA) and all of NIU returned from Spring Break to find the cutting-edge literally at their fingertips. Located in Gabel 212, the ETRA Innovation Lab features not only 3-D printers, Lego Education

U.S. News extols College of Ed online grad programs – again

January 23, 2018 Mark McGowan enewsletter, ETRA, LEPF

Another January, another celebration of a Top 5 ranking from U.S. News & World Report for the NIU College of Education’s online graduate programs. NIU is tied for fifth with the University of Houston and Utah State University this year, bringing the

CoE online graduate programs earn high U.S. News rankings for fifth consecutive year

January 10, 2017 Mark McGowan enewsletter, ETRA, Graduate Programs, LEPF

Online graduate programs in the NIU College of Education continue to perform near the top of the country, according to new rankings released today by U.S. News & World Report. NIU places fourth (tied with the University of Nebraska-Lincoln) in the current

Are MOOCs democratizing higher education?

August 4, 2015 admin-salvani LEPF

Since the term was coined in 2008, MOOCs, or Massive Open Online Courses, have been talked about as a potentially significant democratizing force in higher education. With open enrollment, virtually no limit to class size, and often free, MOOCs seem to offer