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Bodily, Robert; Graham, Charles R.; Bush, Michael D. – Educational Technology, 2017
This article describes the crossroads between learning analytics and learner engagement. The authors do this by describing specific challenges of using analytics to support student engagement from three distinct perspectives: pedagogical considerations, technological issues, and interface design concerns. While engaging online learners presents a…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Online Courses, Educational Opportunities, Barriers
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Lee, Cheng-Yuan; Dickerson, Jeremy; Winslow, Joe – Online Journal of Distance Learning Administration, 2012
The structure of an online course, including the navigational interface, visual design of materials and information, as well as the communication tools to facilitate learning, can affect students, instructors, programs and educational organizations in various ways. This paper examines online course structural issues derived from previous research…
Descriptors: Organizational Culture, Online Courses, Design Requirements, Postsecondary Education
Johnson, L.; Adams, S.; Cummins, M. – New Media Consortium, 2012
This paper reflects a multi-year collaborative effort between the New Media Consortium (NMC) and Griffith University to help inform Australian educational leaders about significant developments in technologies supporting teaching, learning, and research in tertiary education. The research underpinning the report makes use of the NMC's Delphi-based…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Higher Education, Consortia
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Foertsch, Julie; Gernsbacher, Morton Ann – Innovate: Journal of Online Education, 2008
Julie Foertsch and Morton Ann Gernsbacher present the results of an evaluation of an online undergraduate course in psychology that adheres to the seven widely accepted principles of effective online teaching and suggests an eighth principle: using the unique benefits and constraints of online communication to prompt critical thinking about…
Descriptors: Cues, Autism, Formative Evaluation, Online Courses
Bober, Marcie – Distance Education Report, 1998
Focuses on evaluation methods for and determinants of success of online courses. Discusses preliminary indicators of course success, student interactions as predictors, intuitive user interfaces, fluid caveats rather than set criteria, suggestions from participants of listservs, a multi-tiered assessment structure, lessons from the corporate…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Interfaces, Corporations, Courses
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Lahn, Leif Christian – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2004
How would a learning arena that promotes "just-in-time" learning in the workplace ideally be created? This was one of the most important questions the Norwegian research project, NEMLIG, aimed to illustrate through a series of work place experiments. The present article presents the evaluation of the project in the form of a number of dilemmas.…
Descriptors: Education Work Relationship, Systems Development, Online Courses, Web Based Instruction