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Meeting the Challenge: Using VoiceThread to Design Student-Centered Mathematics Courses
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Soto, Roberto C.; Soto, Melissa – PRIMUS, 2023
We now know how "best" to teach our students -- student-centered learning. Yet many of us face challenges when trying to design courses that are student-centered. In this paper, we present our experience with a Web 2.0 technology, VoiceThread, that has helped us address some of the challenges we have encountered when designing…
Descriptors: College Mathematics, Student Centered Learning, Asynchronous Communication, Learner Engagement
Pandemic Pedagogy Challenges and Opportunities: Instruction Communication in Remote, "HyFlex," and "BlendFlex" Courses. Forum: Pandemic Pedagogy and Student Learning
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Miller, Ann Neville; Sellnow, Deanna D.; Strawser, Michael G. – Communication Education, 2021
The spring 2020 COVID-19 pandemic triggered a crisis in education as all instructors were suddenly required to modify face-to-face courses for remote delivery (i.e., synchronous and/or asynchronous) within a matter of days. In response to the need to move suddenly online, reliable video-conferencing software that had been unavailable in the past…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, School Closing, Online Courses
Effects of Traditional, Blended and E-Learning on Students' Achievement in Higher Education
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Al-Qahtani, Awadh A. Y.; Higgins, S. E. – Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2013
The study investigates the effect of e-learning, blended learning and classroom learning on students' achievement. Two experimental groups together with a control group from Umm Al-Qura University in Saudi Arabia were identified randomly. To assess students' achievement in the different groups, pre- and post-achievement tests were used. The…
Descriptors: College Students, Blended Learning, Educational Technology, Conventional Instruction
Going Green: Managing a Paperless Classroom
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De Bonis, Susan; De Bonis, Nick – Online Submission, 2011
The LMS (learning management system) at many schools for delivering, tracking and managing education relies on TEL (technology-enhanced learning), what Nichols called "pedagogy empowered by digital technology" (Nichols, 2008). It includes the "paperless classroom" in traditional (not online) classes in which faculty and students exchange…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Conservation (Environment), Computer Uses in Education, Conventional Instruction
Online Teaching and Classroom Change: The Trans-Classroom Teacher in the Age of the Internet
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Lowes, Susan – Innovate: Journal of Online Education, 2008
Online and face-to-face courses are often viewed and studied as two distinct worlds, but the social field of the teacher who teaches them may well include both, and both the teacher and the courses he or she teaches may be transformed by the movement from one environment to the other. Susan Lowes explores this two-way interaction between…
Descriptors: Conventional Instruction, Synchronous Communication, Asynchronous Communication, Virtual Classrooms
Transformations in Higher Education: Online Distance Learning
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Kobayashi, Victor – Educational Perspectives, 2002
Higher education is undergoing radical shifts that are part of the larger wave of changes taking place in the society. The transformation affects all sectors of higher education, especially distance learning and how it relates to the University's regular offerings. In this article, the author begins with clarifying the terms commonly associated…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Distance Education, Definitions, Models