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Thompson, Bruce – Honors in Practice, 2021
This article describes how one honors leadership team adapted a traditional in-person Forum to a digital platform during the coronavirus crisis. Integrating a variety of asynchronous and synchronous remote technologies created a positive virtual learning experience for honors practitioners and students.
Descriptors: Honors Curriculum, Teamwork, COVID-19, Pandemics
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Harrington, Christine; Hooper, Kimberlee; Hughes, AnnMarie; Klein, Eric; Melendez, John; Siddique, Faraz; Wasserman, Ellen – Impacting Education: Journal on Transforming Professional Practice, 2021
The purpose of this article is to provide an example of how an EdD in Community College Leadership program is offered in an online format. First, the benefits of online programs, including increased access and flexibility for working professionals and higher levels of diversity among the student body are discussed. Then, several strategies to…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Electronic Learning, Doctoral Programs, Community Colleges
Daniel Graybeal – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Due to consistent growth in eLearning in the United States, particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic, a great amount of emphasis has been placed on what is required to ensure that students find success in online education. With an estimated $13 billion invested in online education as of 2019, institutions of higher education must work to ensure…
Descriptors: Sense of Community, Influences, Technical Support, Electronic Learning
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Bachelor, Jeremy W. – Online Submission, 2023
This paper examines the use of technology in the development and assessment of interpersonal communication skills in an online second language (L2) Spanish classroom. The study explores the use of synchronous and asynchronous communication tools and strategies to promote interaction among learners, while also considering the challenges and…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Spanish, Computer Mediated Communication
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Rosen, David J. – Adult Literacy Education, 2021
The focus of each Technology Solutions for Adult Basic Skills Challenges column begins with a common challenge facing adult basic skills practitioners. This article examines a technology solution to two large and related challenges: student engagement and student persistence, which, from a program or school perspective, is often described as…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Technology Uses in Education, Learner Engagement, Academic Persistence
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Li, Qiujie; Zhou, Xuehan; Bostian, Brad; Xu, Di – Online Learning, 2021
With the rapid growth of online learning at community colleges and the low course completion and performance associated with it, there has been increasing need to identify effective ways to address the challenges in online teaching and learning at this setting. Based on open-ended survey responses from 105 instructors and 365 students from…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Online Courses, Instructional Effectiveness, Instructional Improvement
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Joiner, Janet M.; Patterson, Debra – Journal of Teaching in Social Work, 2019
This paper presents pilot study results with 59 students enrolled in online Bachelor of Social Work courses that used VoiceThread (VT), an asynchronous communication platform. This study explored benefits and limitations associated with using VT to complete assignments, learn course content, and engage classmates. Students completed an online…
Descriptors: Social Work, Asynchronous Communication, Undergraduate Students, Computer Mediated Communication
Clark, Julie Marlene – ProQuest LLC, 2019
As technology changes in our everyday lives, so does education to parallel those changes in technology. Nationally, distance education is rapidly changing, and community colleges are chasing after students digitally to add them to their enrollment numbers. Federal regulations require distance education courses to include regular and substantive…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Distance Education, Teacher Student Relationship, Interaction
Jones, Jenny Bailey – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Professional development is a lifelong learning process and technology has provided and will continue to provide new and different delivery methods. Regardless of the delivery method, the intention of professional development is to increase teacher knowledge, which in turn, increases student achievement. At a southeastern community college,…
Descriptors: Internet, Conferences (Gatherings), Web Based Instruction, Computer Mediated Communication
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Violino, Bob – Community College Journal, 2009
This article talks about the latest trend in education, which is social networking. As this phenomenon continues to grow, community colleges are getting into the act, launching online initiatives and harnessing the technology to communicate, promote, and conduct important school business. School administrators believe that social networking can…
Descriptors: Educational Opportunities, Handheld Devices, Social Networks, Web Sites
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Burgess, Melissa L. – Journal of College Reading and Learning, 2009
The purpose of this research was to examine possible outcomes of developmental students' critical thinking and motivation to read when the online learning community, WebCT, was implemented. My role, in addition to instructor, was that of participant-observer. I implemented WebCT tools, such as discussion board and chat, over a four-month period…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Thinking Skills, Teaching Methods, Integrated Learning Systems
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Error, Darise – Community College Journal, 2003
In Fall 2000, Dallas Teleconferences approached a prominent higher education organization about producing a series of satellite teleconferences for them. The intended recipient was complimentary of Dallas' teleconferencing endeavors, but representatives suggested that teleconferencing was an old medium employing antiquated technology. They…
Descriptors: Teleconferencing, Technological Advancement, Futures (of Society), Influence of Technology
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Turrentine, Penny; MacDonald, Lucy – NADE Digest, 2006
Is tutoring online more than just email? Two yearlong studies explored tutoring online in two different modes. One, from Atlantic Community College in New Jersey, looked at asynchronous (not real time) tutoring online using a discussion board. The other, at Pima Community College in Arizona, used synchronous (real time) online software. The…
Descriptors: Best Practices, Tutoring, Online Courses, Instructional Effectiveness
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Chepya, Peter – Community College Enterprise, 2007
It is true that mobile educators contact learners in places where they are, but it is unfair to say they are pandering to the digerati when educators have long ago left the stand-alone chalkboard and the course that has no website. Today the instructor communicates across space, time, and place with learners who exist in other times and places.…
Descriptors: Internet, Electronic Learning, Telecommunications, Electronic Equipment
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Simonson, Michael, Ed. – Association for Educational Communications and Technology, 2013
For the thirty-sixth year, the Research and Theory Division of the Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT) is sponsoring the publication of these Proceedings. Papers published in this volume were presented at the annual AECT Convention in Anaheim, California. The Proceedings of AECT's Convention are published in two…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Discussion Groups, Content Analysis, Games