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Download full textKuboni, Olabisi – International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 2013
This paper reports on a research project aimed at identifying the preferred approaches to learning of mature students in an online graduate programme. Interest in this issue was generated by the positions taken by certain theorists who argue for less focus on interaction and collaboration as the basis for learning in the online environment. They…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Learning Strategies, Preferences, Online Courses
Yamagata-Lynch, Lisa C. – International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 2014
In this article I will share a qualitative self-study about a 15-week blended 100% online graduate level course facilitated through synchronous meetings on Blackboard Collaborate and asynchronous discussions on Blackboard. I taught the course at the University of Tennessee (UT) during the spring 2012 semester and the course topic was online…
Descriptors: Blended Learning, Online Courses, Electronic Learning, Synchronous Communication
Ching, Yu-Hui – International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 2014
This study explored the impact of role-playing on the quality of peer feedback and learners' perception of this strategy in a case-based learning activity with VoiceThread in an online course. The findings revealed potential positive impact of role-playing on learners' generation of constructive feedback as role-playing was associated with higher…
Descriptors: Role Playing, Peer Evaluation, Feedback (Response), Electronic Learning
Muuro, Maina Elizaphan; Wagacha, Waiganjo Peter; Oboko, Robert; Kihoro, John – International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 2014
Earlier forms of distance education were characterized by minimal social interaction like correspondence, television, video and radio. However, the World Wide Web (WWW) and online learning introduced the opportunity for much more social interaction, particularly among learners, and this has been further made possible through social media in Web…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Electronic Learning, Cooperative Learning, Student Attitudes
Koechli, Linda; Glynn, Maureen – International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 2014
This paper outlines an action research project involving the development of an educational online role-playing website, known as Lake Devo. Designed in keeping with constructivist principles, the website is used in select post-secondary courses at Ryerson University and allows learners to work synchronously, using visual, audio, and text elements…
Descriptors: Action Research, Role Playing, Constructivism (Learning), Web Sites
Cunningham, Una – International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 2014
This study examines what happens when online and campus students participate in real time in the same campus classroom. Before this study, postgraduate students studying online in a course intended primarily as professional development for language educators were taking the course through reading the course literature including assigned articles,…
Descriptors: Blended Learning, Synchronous Communication, Graduate Students, Student Attitudes
Teräs, Hanna; Herrington, Jan – International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 2014
Teaching in higher education in the 21st century can be a demanding and complex role and academic educators around the globe are dealing with questions related to change. This paper describes a new type of a professional development program for teaching faculty, using a pedagogical model based on the principles of authentic e-learning. The program…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Faculty Development, Instructional Design, Formative Evaluation
Jowallah, Rohan – International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 2014
This research evaluates the strategies implemented to support the research activities of postgraduate students pursuing online master's programs in the University of the West Indies Open Campus, as well as the activities of their supervisors. The three main strategies employed were (1) the use of a web-based "teaching-learning space" to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Case Studies, Graduate Students, Masters Programs
Salyers, Vincent; Carter, Lorraine; Carter, Alanna; Myers, Sue; Barrett, Penelope – International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 2014
While e-learning is now characterized by a past and trends within that past, there continues to be uncertainty about how e-learning is defined and conceptualized, whether or not we like e-learning, and whether or not it is as meaningful to us as face to face learning. The purpose of this study was to document the e-learning perceptions of students…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Institutional Research, Course Organization, Usability
Wihak, Christine – International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 2011
Prior learning assessment and recognition (PLAR) is the practice of reviewing, evaluating, and acknowledging the information, skills, and understanding that adult learners have gained through experiential or self-directed (informal) learning rather than through formal education (Thomas, 2000). As our current economy and workplaces experience rapid…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Prior Learning, Lifelong Learning, Adult Learning
Akhmetova, Daniya; Vorontsova, Liliya; Morozova, Ilona Gennadyevna – International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 2013
The article is devoted to the unique experience of distance learning development in the conditions of Russian reality. The model of distance learning in the Institute of Economics, Management and Law (Kazan city, Russia) is created on the basis of educational sphere diagnosis taking into account foreign and Russian experience. The specificity of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Distance Education, Private Colleges, Professional Education
Mbatha, Blessing – International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 2014
This article reports on the pedagogical value of Web 2.0 tools at Unisa (i.e., whether these tools can improve teaching and learning). A quantitative approach was used to conduct the study, with a questionnaire as a data collection instrument. The sample size was 301 lecturers drawn using stratified sampling, with proportional allocation drawn…
Descriptors: Web 2.0 Technologies, Computer Uses in Education, Web Based Instruction, Distance Education
Sadykova, Gulnara – International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 2014
The continuous growth of online learning and its movement towards cross-border and cross-culture education has recently taken a new turn with the epic hype that currently surrounds the development of massive open online courses (MOOCs) (Beattie-Moss, 2013). This development brings to focus the experiences of international students who take online…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Large Group Instruction, Foreign Students, Peer Influence
Koole, Marguerite – International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 2014
This paper outlines a preliminary study of the kinds of strategies that master students draw upon for interpreting and enacting their identities in online learning environments. Based primarily on the seminal works of Goffman (1959) and Foucault (1988), the Web of Identity Model (Koole, 2009; Koole and Parchoma, 2012) is used as an underlying…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Graduate Students, Self Concept, Semi Structured Interviews
Marín-Diaz, Veronica; Vázquez Martínez, Ana Isabel; McMullin, Karen Josephine – International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 2014
The evolution of the media and the Internet in education today is an unquestionable reality. At the university level, the use of Web 2.0 tools has become increasingly visible in the new resources that professors have been incorporating both into the classroom and into their research, reinforcing the methodological renewal that the implementation…
Descriptors: Social Networks, Web 2.0 Technologies, Faculty Development, Cooperative Learning
