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Qi Guo; Charles R. Graham; Jered Borup; Bobbie Sandberg; Richard E. West – Distance Education, 2024
This research seeks to understand parental support for online students. Using a survey, this study examined perceptions from 567 parents from eight online K-12 programs in a Midwestern state regarding their support for students' online affective, behavioral, and cognitive engagement. Guided by the Academic Communities of Engagement Framework, our…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Online Courses, Barriers, Elementary Secondary Education
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Latchem, Colin – Distance Education, 2014
Just as genes propagate themselves in the gene pool by leaping from body to body, so memes (ideas, behaviours, and actions) transmit cultural ideas or practices from one mind to another through writing, speech, or other imitable phenomena. This paper considers the memes that influence the evolution of open and distance education. If the…
Descriptors: Open Education, Distance Education, Behavior Patterns, Cultural Influences
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Li, Nan; Verma, Himanshu; Skevi, Afroditi; Zufferey, Guillaume; Blom, Jan; Dillenbourg, Pierre – Distance Education, 2014
Research suggests that massive open online course (MOOC) students prefer to study in groups, and that social facilitation within the study groups may render the learning of difficult concepts a pleasing experience. We report on a longitudinal study that investigates how co-located study groups watch and study MOOC videos together. The study was…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Video Technology, Cooperative Learning, Large Group Instruction