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Direct linkOmneya Kandil; Rafael Rosillo; Rasha Abd El Aziz; David De La Fuente – Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education, 2025
Purpose: The Internet of things (IoT), an emerging research field, offers solutions to several problems and may result in a paradigm shift in various areas, including education. However, this approach has been under-utilised. Therefore, this research investigates and highlights the primary factors that influence the impact of the IoT on education…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Readiness, Internet, Equipment
Hickerson, H. Thomas; Brosz, John; Crema, Leonora – College & Research Libraries, 2022
A recently completed study at the University of Calgary has had broad professional impact and generated increased attention to the role of academic libraries in campus research. This multiyear, evidence-based study was conceived in recognition that the role libraries have traditionally played in research is of decreasing relevance. With support…
Descriptors: Library Role, Academic Libraries, Foreign Countries, Educational Change
Download full textSommers, Daniël; Baarends, Willy M.; Colgrove, Johanna C.; Chaves, Inês; van der Sanden Maarten C. A.; Nonnekens, Julie – Electronic Journal for Research in Science & Mathematics Education, 2020
During the COVID-19 pandemic, laboratory research was not possible in different educational programs at Delft University of Technology and Erasmus University Medical Center due to the taken measures. Therefore, a team of faculty from both institutions developed an alternative transdisciplinary research group project that was fully performed…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Universities, Foreign Countries
Preuss, Lydia; Vaughan, Terry, III – About Campus, 2019
The Arnold Mitchem Fellows Program (AMF) is a co-curricular, undergraduate research program where first-generation, low-income, and underrepresented students learn about basic research skills in preparation for future undergraduate research opportunities and graduate school outside of their traditional for credit classes. This academic year-long…
Descriptors: Fellowships, First Generation College Students, Undergraduate Students, Low Income Students
Leonard, Simon N.; Fitzgerald, Robert N.; Bacon, Matt – Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 2016
Emerging technologies offer an opportunity for the development, at the institutional level, of quality processes with greater capacity to enhance learning in higher education than available through current quality processes. These systems offer the potential to extend use of learning analytics in institutional-level quality processes in addition…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Technology, Technological Advancement, Quality Assurance
Ahn, June; Asbell-Clarke, Jodi; Berland, Matthew; Chase, Catherine; Enyedy, Noel; Fusco, Judith; Gardner, Shari; Grover, Shuchi; Halverson, Erica; Jona, Kemi; Lane, H. Chad; Martin, Wendy; Mercier, Emma; Moher, Tom; Ogan, Amy; Pinkard, Nichole; Polman, Joseph; Roschelle, Jeremy; Schank, Patricia; Taylor, Katie Headrick; Wilkerson, Michelle; Worsley, Marcelo – Grantee Submission, 2017
Cyberlearning researchers envision and investigate the future of learning with technology. As of summer 2017, the Cyberlearning and Future Learning Technologies (CFTL) program of the National Science Foundation (NSF) had made 279 research grant awards. In addition, several hundred other NSF research projects have cyberlearning themes. Many of…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Science Course Improvement Projects, Instructional Design, Research Projects
Escribano, Begona M.; Aguera, Estrella L.; Tovar, Pura – Advances in Physiology Education, 2013
The authors of this article have had some doubts as to whether the new information and communication technologies presented through the internet may be altering the way in which the student's brain processes the information received. Access to the internet permits students to obtain abundant information quite rapidly, but the result is…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Learner Engagement, Information Technology
López Cupita, Lorena Andrea – HOW, 2016
This qualitative research study was carried out with two groups of students at a beginner English level; the students were in the fourth semester of psychology at a Colombian university. The overall aim of this action research study was to analyze learners' perceptions of the strategy "Just in Time Teaching" in a web 2.0. The data were…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Qualitative Research, Teaching Methods, College Students
Adair, Deborah; Shattuck, Kay – American Journal of Distance Education, 2015
Quality Matters (QM) has been transforming established best practices and online education-based research into an applicable, scalable course level improvement process for the last decade. In this article, the authors describe QM as an ongoing design-based research project and an educational input for improving online education.
Descriptors: Research Projects, Instructional Design, Design Requirements, Best Practices
Ziegel, Melina – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This case study examined the implementation of a major research endeavor in an institution of higher education, Trinity College, Dublin, in Ireland, with particular focus on the change process during the initiation of the project and the subsequent needs assessment and implementation of technological solutions. This study identified the stages,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Case Studies, Program Implementation, Technological Advancement
Yamaguchi, Ryoko; Hall, Adam – National Center for Education Research, 2017
Between 2002 and 2014, the Institute of Education Sciences (Institute) supported over 400 projects focused on education technology through the National Center for Education Research (NCER) and the National Center for Special Education Research (NCSER). The majority of this work has been funded through Education Technology research topics of NCER…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Educational Research, Research Projects, Public Agencies
Sánchez, Inmaculada Arnedillo, Ed.; Isaias, Pedro, Ed.; Ravesteijn, Pascal, Ed.; Ongena, Guido, Ed. – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2019
These proceedings contain the papers and posters of the 15th International Conference on Mobile Learning 2019, which was organised by the International Association for Development of the Information Society and co-organised by the University of Applied Sciences, in Utrecht, The Netherlands, April 11-13, 2019. The Mobile Learning 2019 Conference…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Educational Research, Learning Analytics, Internet
Anderson, Terry – Educational Technology, 2013
The Open University of Catalonia (UOC) was established as public, online university and thus has grown quickly with the global interest in online courses. However, like other dedicated distance-education institutions, UOC has had challenges adapting to MOOCs, and the emergent world of Web 2.0 learning technologies. To meet these challenges, UOC…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Open Universities, Distance Education, Open Education
Shaw, Lawton; Kennepohl, Dietmar – International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 2013
Senior undergraduate research projects are important components of most undergraduate science degrees. The delivery of such projects in a distance education format is challenging. Athabasca University (AU) science project courses allow distance education students to complete research project courses by working with research supervisors in their…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, College Science, Science Instruction, Student Projects
Carmichael, Patrick – Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2012
The idea of transformative and troublesome "threshold concepts" has been popular and influential in higher education. This article reports how teachers with different disciplinary affiliations responded to the "concept of thresholds" in the course of a cross-disciplinary research project. It describes how the idea was territorialised and enacted…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Interdisciplinary Approach, Intellectual Disciplines, Educational Technology
