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Jayatilleke, Buddhini Gayathri; Kulasekara, Geetha Udayanganie; Kumarasinha, Malinda Bandara; Gunawardena, Charlotte Nirmalani – Open Praxis, 2017
This research paper discusses the accomplishments, issues, and challenges experienced by Open University of Sri Lanka (OUSL) academics when offering the first cross-border professional development online course to train online tutors and mentors. The course was delivered exclusively online and facilitated by OUSL academics and e-mentors from the…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Electronic Learning, Distance Education, International Educational Exchange
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Reeves, Todd D.; Pedulla, Joseph J. – Professional Development in Education, 2011
Online professional development (OPD) is proliferating in an effort to eliminate barriers to high-quality in-service teacher training. Using the Internet as a vehicle for continuing professional development, however, introduces new concerns largely absent in its face-to-face counterpart. For example, evidence from the USA's e-Learning for…
Descriptors: Evidence, Electronic Learning, Online Courses, Least Squares Statistics
Marshall, Stephen – Journal of Asynchronous Learning Networks, 2011
Technology and change are so closely related that the use of the word innovation seems synonymous with technology in many contexts, including that of higher education. This paper contends that university culture and existing capability constrain such innovation and to a large extent determine the nature and extent of organisational change. In the…
Descriptors: Evidence, Electronic Learning, Higher Education, Universities
Nathan, Edward Pavel – Performance Improvement Quarterly, 2011
This research study examined how a multinational company determined what the critical success factors (CSFs) were for developing global e-learning. The study analyzed how these CSFs were grouped together to make their management more efficient. There were 21 participants in the study who were key stakeholders from the United States, Europe, Latin…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Foreign Countries, Global Approach, Performance Factors
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Koszalka, Tiffany A.; Ntloedibe-Kuswani, G. S. – Distance Education, 2010
Worldwide growth in use of mobile phones has fostered the emergence of mobile learning. Mobile technologies are used both in classrooms to support instruction (safe) and as tools that significantly change instructional activities, learner roles, and learning location (disruptive). Learners become less consumers of information and more…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Distance Education, Information Technology, Literature Reviews
Picciano, Anthony G.; Seaman, Jeff – Sloan Consortium (NJ1), 2007
The research literature on online learning has grown significantly in the past decade. Many studies have been published that examine the extent, nature, policies, learning outcomes, and other issues associated with online instruction. While much of this literature focuses specifically on postsecondary education with approximately three million…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Blended Learning, Elementary Secondary Education, Online Courses