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Direct linkAlbers, Peggy; Pace, Christi L.; Odo, Dennis Murphy – Journal of Literacy Research, 2016
Digital technologies make possible new avenues for sharing and accessing literacy research and practices worldwide. Among the myriad of options available, web seminars have become popular online learning venues. The current investigation is part of Global Conversations in Literacy Research (GCLR), a longitudinal and qualitative study now in its…
Descriptors: Critical Literacy, Seminars, Computer Mediated Communication, Communities of Practice
Download full textMoskal, Patsy; Thompson, Kelvin; Futch, Linda – Online Learning, 2015
BlendKit is a 5-week course designed by the University of Central Florida in an open, online format specifically for the professional development of higher education faculty and designers preparing to design and teach blended learning courses. The evaluation of this course provides us with interesting and valuable information on the success of…
Descriptors: Blended Learning, Professional Development, Higher Education, College Faculty
Hennessy, Sara; Haßler, Bjoern; Hofmann, Riikka – Technology, Pedagogy and Education, 2015
This article examines the supporting and constraining factors influencing professional learning about interactive teaching and mobile digital technology use in low-resourced basic schools in sub-Saharan Africa. It draws on a case study of iterative development and refinement of a school-based, peer-facilitated professional learning programme…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Education, Professional Development, Educational Technology
Menolli, André Luís Andrade; Reinehr, Sheila; Malucelli, Andreia – Informatics in Education, 2013
New technologies, such as social networks, wikis, blogs and other social tools, enable collaborative work and are important facilitators of the social learning process. Many companies are using these types of tools as substitutes for their intranets, especially software development companies. However, the content generated by these tools in many…
Descriptors: Social Networks, Computer Mediated Communication, Resource Units, Computer Software
Butcher, Neil; Moore, Andrew; Hoosen, Sarah – Journal of Learning for Development, 2014
The Ministry of Education in Guyana has prioritised increasing the number of qualified teachers by providing opportunities to both pre- and in-service teachers to gain relevant qualifications. This paper describes the process used to redesign the teacher training curriculum in Guyana to achieve the goals of a newly-developed ICT Professional…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Resource Units, Computer Uses in Education, Shared Resources and Services
Bonk, Curtis J.; Lee, Mimi Miyoung – Journal of Learning for Development, 2017
This research targeted the learning preferences, goals and motivations, achievements, challenges, and possibilities for life change of self-directed online learners enrolled in a massive open online course (MOOC) related to online teaching hosted by Blackboard using CourseSites. Data collection included a 40-item survey, of which 159 MOOC…
Descriptors: Learning Motivation, Academic Achievement, Independent Study, Open Education
Okonkwo, Charity Akuadi – International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 2012
Nigeria has joined the global race of teaching and learning in a changing educational environment by adopting open and distance learning (ODL). Although it is a global trend, ODL poses some challenges at local levels, one of which is the untimely production of teaching materials currently affecting instructional delivery in Nigeria. The modern…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Teaching Methods, Needs Assessment, Foreign Countries
Coughlan, Tony; Perryman, Leigh-Anne – Journal of Open, Flexible and Distance Learning, 2011
This article explores the relationship between academic disciplines' representation in the United Kingdom Open University's (OU) OpenLearn open educational resources (OER) repository and in the OU's fee-paying curriculum. Becher's (1989) typology was used to subdivide the OpenLearn and OU fee-paying curriculum content into four disciplinary…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Open Universities, Resource Units, Computer Uses in Education
Li, Jerry Z.; Nesbit, John C.; Richards, Griff – International Journal of Distance Education Technologies, 2006
Learning object repositories and evaluation tools have the potential to serve as sites for interaction among different cultures and communities of practice. This article outlines Web-based learning object evaluation tools that we have developed, describes our current efforts to extend those tools to a wider range of user communities, and considers…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Resource Units, Communities of Practice, Web Based Instruction
