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Bajko, Robert; Hodson, Jaigris; Seaborn, Katie; Livingstone, Pamela; Fels, Deborah – Information Systems Education Journal, 2016
Gamification is an increasingly acceptable alternative to traditional classroom structures and practices that is based on the notion that games can be engaging to students. Gamification consists of applying game concepts such as challenges, rewards, and leaderboards to educational materials and courses. While gamification in the classroom is not…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Multimedia Materials, Social Media, Student Participation
Champagne, Matthew V. – Educational Research and Evaluation, 2013
A 2012 survey of higher education found that 27% of colleges and universities were "mobile ready", that is, allowing students to complete course evaluations via mobile devices, and 26% of schools planned to allow the use of mobile devices for course evaluations within the next year. The purpose of this study was to prepare for this…
Descriptors: Course Evaluation, Handheld Devices, Technology Uses in Education, Longitudinal Studies
Olcott, Don, Jr. – Open Praxis, 2013
Traditional and affordable access to a university education is under siege from all sides. National realpolitiks and global economic downturns have driven open education into the mainstream to stand against educational elitism, the growing digital divide, and to support the core values that give education its fundamental credence as a human right.…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Open Education, Quality Assurance, Cost Effectiveness
Rapchak, Marcia; Behary, Robert – Journal of Library & Information Services In Distance Learning, 2013
As information literacy programs become more robust, finding methods of reaching students beyond the traditional undergraduate has become a priority for many institutions. At Duquesne University, efforts have been made to reach adult learners in an accelerated program targeted to nontraditional students, much of which is provided online. This…
Descriptors: Information Literacy, Library Instruction, Online Courses, Distance Education
Guerin, Cally; Green, Ian – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2015
Team supervision of PhDs is increasingly the norm in Australian and UK universities; while this model brings many improvements on the traditional one-on-one research supervision, it also introduces new complexities. In particular, many students find the diversity of opinions expressed in teams to be confusing. Such diversity in supervisor feedback…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Supervision, Supervisory Methods, Teamwork
Pelech, William; Wulff, Dan; Perrault, Ellen; Ayala, Jessica; Baynton, Myra; Williams, Margaret; Crowder, Rachael; Shankar, Janki – Journal of Teaching in Social Work, 2013
One of the first tasks of the Social Work Distance Education Network at the Faculty of Social Work at the University of Calgary was to review the literature and address three research questions to inform policy making and planning relating to distance social work education programming. This paper is intended to disseminate responses to these…
Descriptors: Social Work, Distance Education, Performance Factors, Barriers
Erichsen, Elizabeth Anne; Bolliger, Doris U.; Halupa, Colleen – Studies in Higher Education, 2014
There are no universal, precise, or explicit criteria for completing a doctoral degree successfully. Researchers and practitioners have pointed out how difficult and time consuming the supervision of graduate student research can be. When students in doctoral programs complete their degrees via distance delivery, supervision of graduate students…
Descriptors: Doctoral Programs, Participant Satisfaction, Distance Education, Supervision
He, Wu; Yen, Cherng-Jyh – Journal of Information Systems Education, 2014
More and more information technology (IT) programs are offering distance learning courses to their students. However, to date, there are a very limited number of published articles in the IT education literature that compare how different methods of delivering distance course relate to undergraduate students' learning outcomes in IT software…
Descriptors: Programming, Computer Software, Computer Science Education, Participant Satisfaction
Mensch, Scott – Contemporary Issues in Education Research, 2013
When offering online classes, it is necessary to ensure that all course material and objectives will be covered and learners will be successful in the course. This becomes especially important when the same class material and objectives are offered in a three-, five-, and fourteen-week format. This paper outlines the difficulty of delivering…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Program Length, Problem Solving, Delivery Systems
Bose, Sutapa; Sharma, Parveen – Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education, 2010
Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) of India uses multiple media and modes for reaching out to its distant learners. For most of the programmes offered to these learners, print is the master medium and other media supplement it. Instructions for the Bachelor in Education (B.Ed.), one of the popular programmes of IGNOU, are also…
Descriptors: Media Selection, Educational Media, Questionnaires, Student Surveys
Nemanich, Louise; Banks, Michael; Vera, Dusya – Decision Sciences Journal of Innovative Education, 2009
This article integrates management education and organizational learning theories to identify the factors that drive the differences in student outcomes between the online and classroom settings. We draw upon theory on knowledge transfer barriers in organizations to understand the interlinking relationships among presage conditions, deep learning…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Conventional Instruction, Intermode Differences, Organizational Theories