The increasing availability of digital data in higher education provides an extraordinary resource for researchers to undertake educational research, targeted at understanding challenges facing the sector. Big data can stimulate new ways to transform processes relating to learning and teaching, and helps identify useful data, sources of evidence…

A prescription favored in this article calls for the joint use of "learning maps" and "instructional maps." Why then the "Vs." in the title? Simply put, it is a rhetorical device. It calls attention to a key difference between the two. This article explicates the difference. It also informs how alone and in…

Despite the central role that well organized and structured course content plays in engaging online learners with content, the authors point to the absence of guidelines for organizing content in ways that meet course learning goals. Recognizing the need for a design solution and, perhaps, the need for a new design model, "design…

Article presents an adaptive instructional model for concept teaching which incorporates the humanistic idea of self-learning. (Author)

Argues that a confusion of craft and technology is responsible for the erosion and splintering of the discipline of educational technology. Describes the positive and negative qualities of craft and technology and gives examples of the consequences of emphasizing one over the other and recommends a greater blending of the two approaches. (PEN)