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Download full textAchieving the Dream, 2022
Gateway courses in English challenge students to strengthen skills in critical thinking, reading, grammar, and writing structure and strategies -- skills that also help build competency in comprehension and composition. They can also prove to be a particular challenge to many community college students. This case study examines the efforts at…
Descriptors: Remedial Instruction, Community Colleges, Critical Thinking, Thinking Skills
Peer reviewedAdame, Silvia I.; Llorens, Luis – Universal Journal of Educational Research, 2016
This paper presents a description of the metadata harvester software development. This system provides access to reliable and quality educational resources, shared by Mexican Universities through their repositories, to anyone with Internet Access. We present the conceptual and contextual framework, followed by the technical basis, the results and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Resources, Metadata, Access to Information
Wald, Mike; Li, Yunjia; Draffan, E. A. – Themes in Science and Technology Education, 2014
This paper describes accessible collaborative learning using mobile devices with mobile enhancements to Synote, the freely available, award winning, open source, web based application that makes web hosted recordings easier to access, search, manage, and exploit for all learners, teachers and other users. Notes taken live during lectures using…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Handheld Devices, Open Source Technology, Web Based Instruction
Masters, Jennifer – Journal of Learning Design, 2013
The term "scaffolding" is often used loosely to describe a broad range of interventions or devices for learners and in many instances the actual nature of the scaffold is unclear. In the true sense, for "scaffolding" to take place the activity needs to be for the learner's own intentions, i.e. a task that he or she sets…
Descriptors: Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Preservice Teachers, Portfolios (Background Materials), Electronic Learning
Andrade, Maureen Snow – Open Praxis, 2014
This paper describes an embedded approach to learner support in online English language courses. The support model is based on language acquisition, transactional distance, and self-regulated learning theories. Based on these theories, courses were designed to provide the interaction necessary for academic English language gains, decrease the…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, Online Courses, Curriculum Enrichment, Program Descriptions
Direct linkSee, Andrew; Teetor, Travis Stephen – Journal of Access Services, 2014
In the summer of 2012, the University of Arizona Libraries implemented an online training program to effectively train Access Services staff and student employees at a large academic research library. This article discusses the program, which was built using a course management system (D2L) and various e-Learning software applications (Articulate…
Descriptors: Staff Development, Training Methods, Library Personnel, Courseware
Long, Wang; Haklev, Stian – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2012
The Chinese National Quality Course Plan is a large-scale project by the Ministry of Education, which has led to the production of more than 12,000 courses from some 700 universities since 2003. This paper describes in detail the purpose of the project and how it is organized at all levels, including how individual courses get selected at…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Curriculum Development, Educational Change, Educational Resources
Gimeno Sanz, Ana; De-Sequeira, Jose Macario – Online Submission, 2009
The increasing demand for high quality innovative foreign language teaching and learning materials led the CAMILLE R&D Group at the Universidad Politecnica de Valencia (Spain) to design a completely online language-independent authoring tool and content manager to allow teachers from around the world to design and deliver tailor-made online…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Feedback (Response), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Hodgkinson-Williams, Cheryl; Paskevicius, Michael – Distance Education, 2012
Like many universities worldwide, the University of Cape Town (UCT) in South Africa has joined the open educational resources (OER) movement, making a selection of teaching and learning materials available through its OER directory, UCT OpenContent. However, persuading and then supporting busy academics to share their teaching materials as OER…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Resources, Graduate Students, Student Role
Kanchanaraksa, Sukon; Gooding, Ira; Klaas, Brian; Yager, James D. – Open Learning, 2009
The need for public health knowledge is ever increasing, but the educational options have been limited to coursework delivered by academics to individuals who can afford the cost of tuition at public health institutions. To overcome this disparity, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (JHSPH) has joined the Massachusetts Institute of…
Descriptors: Health Education, Health Promotion, Public Health, Graduate Study
Carson, Steve – Open Learning, 2009
This article traces the development of the OpenCourseWare movement, including the origin of the concept at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), the implementation of the MIT OpenCourseWare project, and the idea's spread into the global educational community, ultimately resulting in the formation of the OpenCourseWare Consortium. The…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Consortia, Educational Resources, Educational History
Herron, Rita I.; Holsombach-Ebner, Cinda; Shomate, Alice K.; Szathmary, Kimberly J. – Journal of Asynchronous Learning Networks, 2012
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University--Worldwide serves more than 36,000 online students across the globe, many of whom are military and other non-traditional students, offering 34 undergraduate, graduate, and professional education/workforce certificate programs, presented both online and via blended delivery modes. The centralized model of online…
Descriptors: Handheld Devices, Computer System Design, Guidelines, Administrative Organization
Keats, Derek – Open Learning, 2009
Free and Open Educational Resources at the University of the Western Cape (UWC) are deeply rooted in our institutional culture, stemming from the role we played in the struggle for political freedom in South Africa. The successful development of a strategy has been influenced by this history, as well as the role of a champion in the main…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Freedom, Courseware, Organizational Change
West, Paul; Daniel, John – Open Learning, 2009
The Virtual University for Small States of the Commonwealth (VUSSC) was conceived by ministers at their triennial Conference of Commonwealth Ministers of Education in 2000. The Commonwealth of Learning was asked to investigate possible models, and presented a proposal to ministers at their next conference in 2003. The concept of a virtual…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Qualifications, Virtual Universities, Educational Resources
Savenye, Wilhelmina; Dwyer, Herb; Niemczyk, Mary; Olina, Zane; Kim, Alexander; Nicolaou, Adamos; Kopp, Howard – Computers in the Schools, 2003
A school district in the southwestern United States has over the past several years built its infrastructure to support high-quality technology integration by its teachers. The district partnered with a nearby university's educational technology graduate program to develop a digital high school project. Teachers and advanced instructional-design…
Descriptors: Secondary School Teachers, Internet, Educational Technology, Web Based Instruction
