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Pamela Roberts; Shirley V. Scott; Jacquelyn Cranney; Therese M. Cumming; Elizabeth Angstmann; Marina Nehme; Karin Watson – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2024
This paper proposes four principles for managers and higher education educators who are designing units and programmes so as to be dual mode ready. `Dual mode' design and delivery enables students to equitably complete their studies fully online, while also offering on-campus experiences where possible. The four principles are: (1) All learning…
Descriptors: Blended Learning, Higher Education, College Students, Stress Variables
Farahnaz Soleimani; Jeonghyun Lee; Meryem Yilmaz Soylu – Journal of Research on Technology in Education, 2024
This study aimed to understand the relationship between course activities and learning progress among students enrolled in the MicroMasters certificate program offered in an affordable MOOC-based learning platform. In order to capture the relationship, the differences between the engagement patterns of learners in the MicroMasters program compared…
Descriptors: MOOCs, Educational Certificates, Artificial Intelligence, Learner Engagement
Xiaojing Song – International Journal of Learning Technology, 2025
The first MOOC course on geo-informatics, 'maps and the geospatial revolution' was provided as video materials by Penn State in July 2013, since then, the number of geo-informatics MOOC courses has increased significantly (Robinson et al., 2015). This study uses the edX geo-informatics course model as the origin of the experimental results to…
Descriptors: MOOCs, Information Science Education, Maps, Geographic Information Systems
Lynne N. Kennette; Dawn McGuckin; Deborah Tsagris – Psychology Teaching Review, 2023
The pandemic resulted in many courses being shifted to online delivery, but some courses are designed as online courses from their conception. Courses intentionally designed for online delivery should be well-received by students, but it is not clear which aspects of courses students find particularly appealing and unappealing. We examined…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Online Courses, Asynchronous Communication, General Education
Kristin Herman; Patricia Davidson – International Journal of Designs for Learning, 2022
This design case documents the reimagination of new faculty orientation for a mid-sized public university due to the COVID-19 global pandemic. This fully virtual iteration was facilitated during the summer of 2020 and is compared both to previous in-person iterations of new faculty orientation as well as a blended modality version of the…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Teacher Orientation, Models, Distance Education
Sarah K. Anderson; Shannon Grave; Katherine Terras – American Journal of Distance Education, 2024
This article offers recommendations for online graduate students, instructors, and universities to better meet the needs of students with disabilities who increasingly participate in online courses. Using semi-structured interviews, researchers asked what recommendations participants from respective disability categories have for supporting them…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Online Courses, Distance Education, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
Steffen Steinert; Lars Krupp; Karina E. Avila; Anke S. Janssen; Verena Ruf; David Dzsotjan; Christian De Schryver; Jakob Karolus; Stefan Ruzika; Karen Joisten; Paul Lukowicz; Jochen Kuhn; Norbert Wehn; Stefan Küchemann – Education and Information Technologies, 2025
As distance learning becomes increasingly important and artificial intelligence tools continue to advance, automated systems for individual learning have attracted significant attention. However, the scarcity of open-source online tools that are capable of providing personalized feedback has restricted the widespread implementation of…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Open Educational Resources, STEM Education, Feedback (Response)
Özer, Ugur – Problems of Education in the 21st Century, 2022
In present conditions, where distance education applications in higher education have become widespread due to the COVID-19 pandemic, it is seen in the research studies that the satisfaction levels of the lecturers and students are low. Although the developments in information technologies have reached advanced dimensions, the problems experienced…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Distance Education, Physical Education, Athletics
Echambadi, Raj; Saiyed, Arshad; Scagnoli, Norma I.; Viswanathan, Madhu – Journal of Management Education, 2022
How does an online graduate business program become the fastest growing program in a short span of 5 years, in a category that has been showing constant decline in the last decade? This article takes a retrospective look at the journey from conception to launch and early implementation of an innovative online program at a large public university…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Business Administration Education, Educational Change, Distance Education
Maher Salem; Khalid Samara; Abdel-Karim Al-Tamimi – ACM Transactions on Computing Education, 2024
This study focuses on the challenges encountered in online cybersecurity education. It adopts an exploratory research design using a mixed-methods approach to investigate the perceptions and experiences of postgraduate students enrolled in an online cybersecurity program. The collection of data is structured into two distinct phases. In the…
Descriptors: Information Security, Computer Security, Guidelines, Student Motivation
Alonzo, Erick – MDRC, 2020
The COVID-19 crisis has upended students' lives and their career plans, including their ability to line up college internships. As millions of people across the country continue to work or attend school from home, many companies and organizations have had to cancel their internship programs, which are an important part of recruitment and diversity…
Descriptors: Internship Programs, Fellowships, Scholarship Funds, College Students
James Adcock – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Crisis necessitates society to renew itself, frequently in a disruptive manner. The recent pandemic is accelerating the transformative modalities of learning, working, and relating with one another, both abruptly and radically. This paper examines the area of online education and attempts to show the effects of how institutions of higher education…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Academic Degrees, Employer Attitudes, Employment Potential
Mitchum, Catrina; Rodrigo, Rochelle; Staples, Shelley – Composition Forum, 2020
This program profile describes the process the Writing Program at the University of Arizona took to create a pathway to course completion for students during the pandemic-induced remote transition in Spring 2020. While the majority of students continued to have access to the hardware and software necessary to complete the term online, some…
Descriptors: Inclusion, Writing Instruction, Distance Education, College Students
Bilgic, Hatice Gokce; Tuzun, Hakan – Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education, 2020
This study aimed to examine the core issues and challenges with web-based distance education programs in Turkish higher education institutes. Formative research method, which is a qualitative research method in nature, was selected to analyze web-based distance education programs thoroughly. The study group comprised 4 higher education institutes,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Web Based Instruction, Distance Education, Higher Education
Cridland, Caitlin; Drape, Tiffany; Marine, Sasha; Gillaspy, Glenda – Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education, 2021
Like many institutions around the world, the COVID-19 pandemic prompted us to shift our summer 2020 in-person undergraduate experiential learning program to a remote, virtual format. Here, we present our observations, summarized in 10 best practices, for moving a STEM-focused research experience for undergraduates, experiential learning program or…
Descriptors: Best Practices, Experiential Learning, Teaching Methods, COVID-19