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If You Go down to the Woods Today You Are in for a Big Surprise: Seeing the Wood for the Trees in Online Delivery of Career Guidance
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Bright, Jim E. H. – British Journal of Guidance & Counselling, 2015
Arguments about online delivery of career development are too frequently couched in polarising terms setting traditional face-to-face guidance practice against online systems. The focus has been on the alleged dehumanising impact of technology and the speed, economy and efficiency of online systems. The possible synergies delivered by the…
Descriptors: Career Guidance, Online Systems, Delivery Systems, Career Development
Enhancing Web-Based Courses through a Mutual Aid Framework
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Wilke, Dina J.; Randolph, Karen A.; Vinton, Linda – Journal of Teaching in Social Work, 2009
Students taking a class together belong to a group where members typically develop a sense of connection to each other by engaging in mutual support and assistance through shared experiences and knowledge. Some have argued that the lack of face-to-face interaction precludes such processes and prevents the effective teaching of social work in an…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Course Content, Social Work, Web Based Instruction
Measuring Changes in Interagency Collaboration: An Examination of the Bridgeport Safe Start Initiative
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Friedman, Stacey R.; Reynolds, Jesse; Quan, Michael A.; Call, Stephanie; Crusto, Cindy A.; Kaufman, Joy S. – Evaluation and Program Planning, 2007
This paper describes the evaluation of interagency collaboration in a network of child-serving providers as part of the evaluation of the Bridgeport Safe Start Initiative (BSSI). In line with the system of care approach, the objectives of BSSI included reducing fragmentation of efforts and delivering integrated services to families of young…
Descriptors: Integrated Services, Delivery Systems, Family Violence, Network Analysis
Supporting the Distance Learner with Computer Teleconferencing.
Haile, Penelope J.; Richards, Angela J. – 1984
A study was conducted of the use of a computer teleconferencing system developed by Participation Systems Inc. (nicknamed PARTI) as enhancement for two independent study credit courses in the behavioral sciences, Introduction to Effective Communication and Introductory Psychology. An earlier study in the spring and summer of 1983 had tested the…
Descriptors: College Students, Computers, Delivery Systems, Distance Education
Learning Networks for Schools: Keeping up with the Times or a Leap into the Unknown?
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O'Brien, Mark; Burton, Diana; Campbell, Anne; Qualter, Anne; Varga-Atkins, Tunde – Curriculum Journal, 2006
This article seeks to explore the "fit" of "the network" as an organizational form being implemented in schools in England. It considers current trends within education policy, pedagogy and educational technology in the context of these new service delivery models and relates these to the current interest in learning networks.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Instructional Leadership, Evaluation Research, Educational Technology
Group and Class Contexts for Learning and Support Online: Learning and Affective Support Online in Small Group and Class Contexts
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Anderson, Bill; Simpson, Mary – International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 2004
This study was designed to evaluate the use of asynchronous discussion in distance education in terms of student perceptions of its value for learning and for affective support. At the end of the third and sixth years of a distance delivered teacher education programme, students completed a survey to determine the extent to which the nature and…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Asynchronous Communication, Virtual Classrooms, Student Attitudes