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Wade, Christine E.; Cameron, Bruce A.; Morgan, Kari; Williams, Karen C. – Quarterly Review of Distance Education, 2016
In order to better understand faculty perceptions of group work, a survey was deployed to online teaching instructors. Results suggest that most faculty find student socialization (e.g., being supportive, caring about each other), communication, reliability, and dependability important in the group process. However, very few faculty rated the…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Group Activities, Student Projects, Units of Study
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Tevaniemi, Johanna; Poutanen, Jenni; Lähdemäki, Riitta – New Review of Academic Librarianship, 2015
This article presents a case of co-designed temporary learning spaces at a Finnish academic library, together with the results of a user-survey. The experimental development of the multifunctional spaces offered an opportunity for the library to collaborate with its parent organisation thus broadening the role of the library. Hence, library can be…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Case Studies, Space Utilization, Interior Design
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Casey, Ashley; Hastie, Peter; Jump, Steve – Sport, Education and Society, 2016
This paper documents how a unit of student-designed games can create a more meaningful version of physical education (PE) for disengaged students, a version that enhances the educational legitimacy of the subject matter by affording it worth in and of itself rather than being justified for other, extrinsic or instrumental reasons. Furthermore, it…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Student Developed Materials, Game Theory, Educational Games
Leh, Amy Sheng Chieh – 1999
This study examined whether children communicate themselves via visual images and whether adults can better understand children by viewing images they use to express themselves. An extracurricular course was designed to help students become familiar with computers and the Internet; objectives included creating a word document, sending and reading…
Descriptors: Action Research, Children, Computer Graphics, Computer Literacy