In October, 2022, in partnership with the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee and the WICHE Cooperative for Educational Technology (WCET), Dr. Tanya Joosten of DETA facilitated a microcredentialing pre-convening prior to the WCET Annual Meeting at Hilton Denver City Center. The pre-convening was held with professionals...
A guide, The Blended Institution for Higher Education: A Model for a Sustainable Institution, was developed in partnership with Every Learner Everywhere and the Online Learning Consortium Previously, we shared our resource, Planning for a Blended Future, focusing on research-based strategies that faculty and instructors could...
In examining the student experience, there were four primary findings: 1.) Students are generally satisfied with their experience with the DLE; 2.) Students use the DLE often for their learning tasks and feel that the majority of tasks are easy for them to perform; 3.)...
In partnership with the Online Learning Consortium, the National eLearning Center in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and other partners, we worked to develop the instrumentation for multiple stakeholders in higher and K12 education in 2020 for phase I of a national study. In this...
In partnership with NELC, the Online Learning Consortium (OLC), and us at the National Research Center for Distance Education and Technological Advancements (DETA), we designed and developed the instrumentation in 2020 for the studies of online learning to understand the impact of COVID-19 resulting in...
A report, Research Review: Educational Technologies and their Impact on Student Success for Racial and Ethnic Groups of Interest, was developed in partnership with the WICHE Cooperative for Educational Technologies. What can we do right now to reduce barriers for students in using technology including redesigning...
Planning for a Blended Future: A Research-Driven Guide for Educators DETA in partnership with Every Learner Everywhere (ELE) and the Online Learning Consortium (OLC) releases a new guide to support educators. Download at: https://www.everylearnereverywhere.org/resources/planning-for-a-blended-future/ "While many of us through the years have experienced and witnessed the potential of...
DETA is excited to announce that DETA Research Toolkit 2.0 has finally been released. Thanks to support from WCET and Every Learner Everywhere, the new Toolkit is available. The Toolkit is now a digital resource within Solve, home of the Every Learner Everywhere Network’s growing library of digital learning resources. You can...
A peer-reviewed articles, Online Learning Readiness, was published in the American Journal of Distance Education, which included findings from one of the DETA team's multi-year studies. Abstract: This paper examines the relationship between student characteristics of online learning readiness and student outcomes in online courses at...
DETA identified the digital learning innovation trends by creating a process that examines not only expert opinion or public media and communications on trends, but also the published peer review literature. Using the developed protocol, communications, media, and articles were systematically pulled and content analysis...