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Direct linkYao, Ching-Bang – IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies, 2017
Although m-learning applications have been widely researched, few studies have investigated applying adaptive learning content to various learning environments and efficient input interfaces. This study combined a context-aware mechanism, which can be used to provide suitable learning information anytime and anyplace by using GPS technology, with…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Educational Technology, Usability, Individualized Instruction
Download full textScrivener, Susan; Bloom, Dan; LeBlanc, Allen; Paxson, Christina; Rouse, Cecilia Elena; Sommo, Colleen – MDRC, 2008
This report discusses the implementation of the Opening Doors Learning Communities and its effects on students up to two years after they entered the study. Freshmen in this "learning community" at Kingsborough Community College in Brooklyn, NY, moved more quickly through developmental English requirements, took and passed more courses,…
Descriptors: Outcomes of Education, Control Groups, Educational Objectives, Community Programs
Schwartz, Susan K.; Kowalski, Eileen M. – Journal of College Science Teaching, 2007
The authors incorporated chemistry into information technology (IT) programming assignments and IT problem solving into chemistry. At-risk students, performing well below control groups of their peers in both courses, achieved end-of-term chemistry exam results and IT final project results that were statistically indistinguishable (p varies) from…
Descriptors: Team Teaching, Information Technology, Control Groups, Chemistry
Bartlett, Thomas – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2002
Describes how the University of Pennsylvania is testing a new way of teaching involving team-taught interdisciplinary courses on some its freshmen, while keeping others in a control group. (EV)
Descriptors: College Freshmen, College Instruction, Comparative Analysis, Control Groups
